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EV Battery Material Shortages by 2030? Which Ones?

December 29, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, lfp batteries, lithium-ion batteries, mckinsey & company, nmc batteries

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

December 29, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, firefly, nio, nio et9

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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New York Becomes Second State To Pass Superfund Pollution Law

December 29, 2024 admin New York, policy & politics, polluters pay, superfund, superfund sites

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:51:06 +0000

A new Superfund law in New York may require fossil fuel companies to pay up to $75 billion over 25 years for harm to the environment.

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New Tools Make Early Detection Of Forest Fires Possible

December 29, 2024 admin fire detection, fire prevention, fires, green economy, research, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:50:04 +0000

Some forest fires could be avoided by earlier detection. Today, new digital and satellite tools are available to do just that.

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You Can Now Get Free Tesla Supercharging Adapters from Hyundai

December 29, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, genesis, Hyundai, nacs, nacs adapter, tesla superchargers, tesla supercharging

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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Lilium Lives!

December 28, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric air taxis, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, lilium

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:33:39 +0000

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Lilium running out of money. It seemed the dream had died. After 9 years and nearly 1,000 “preorders,” Lilium just couldn’t make it financially. It’s hard to get off the ground as a startup and reach profitability, even more so in an … [continued]

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The Inside Scoop On The First Ever Electric Vehicle To Hit The Rose Bowl Parade

December 28, 2024 admin California, circular economy, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, COLLEGE, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ev parade, ev parades, events, football, lithium iron phosphate, lithium iron phosphate battery, recycling, repurpose, reuse, rose bowl, usa, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:27:41 +0000

For the first time ever in Rose Bowl history, an electric vehicle will power a float in the 136th annual Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2025.

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

December 28, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, Nuclear, nuclear energy, policy & politics, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

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?

December 28, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Safety

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

December 28, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, guinness world records, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq 5, world records

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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