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EV Battery Material Shortages by 2030? Which Ones?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:21:52 +0000

Electric vehicle sales keep growing, and quite fast. Year over year, gas car sales have been going down and electric car sales have been going up. The transition is underway. But there are periods of faster growth and periods of slower growth. When growth is slower than expected, that can … [continued]

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NIO’s New Firefly Brand Has Some Special Sauce, Could Help NIO Reach Profitability

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:53:56 +0000

NIO launched a new brand last week, the low-cost Firefly brand. The new compact car from Firefly will cost as little as 148,800 yuan ($20,400) at launch. It also launched its most expensive model, the ET9, which starts at 788,000 yuan ($108,000), more than 5 times more! Clearly, NIO is … [continued]

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You Can Now Get Free Tesla Supercharging Adapters from Hyundai

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:09:43 +0000

Almost every automaker in the US has decided to put the Tesla Supercharger port (or NACS — North American Charging Standard — port) on its EVs in the future, instead of CCS fast charging ports. The challenge, in the meantime, is getting adapters for existing EVs to allow them to … [continued]

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China Hits EV Target 10 Years Early, Still Hasn’t Reached 2020 Nuclear Target

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:20:27 +0000

On October 27th of 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers laid out a roadmap for how the country was going to achieve 50% of all cars sold in 2035 being fully electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen, with 95% of them of course being fully electric. Per projections from HSBC, … [continued]

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Is Safety A Much Bigger Issue For Robotaxis Than We Assume?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:47:43 +0000

The “robotaxi revolution” has been hyped for about a decade. Many see it as never coming. Many see it as just around the next corner. The fact of the matter is: robotaxis are already in operation. However, that’s still at a rather small scale. The “revolution” part would be when … [continued]

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Hyundai IONIQ 5 Sets New World Record

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:28:28 +0000

What a great way to end the year — trying to set a new world record. That’s what a Hyundai team in India has been doing with its fully electric Hyundai IONIQ 5. Hyundai Motor India Limited has tried to drive the IONIQ 5 across the biggest altitude change in … [continued]

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