Electric vehicles – Page 44

Why Isn’t Hyundai Motor Group Circling the Drain?

December 29, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Hyundai, Kia

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 02:40:32 +0000

Paul Wildman and I have collaborated on articles charting the difficulties of the top three car makers: Toyota, Volkswagen, and Stellantis; and the effect of these difficulties on their respective national economies: Japan, Germany, France, and Italy. Recently, I suggested to Paul that we look at Hyundai/Kia, as they do … [continued]

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Good News From China — CATL EV Chassis, Radar King Kong Pickup Truck

December 29, 2024 admin avatr, batteries, catl, clean transport, electric cars, electric pickup trucks, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, geely, lithium-ion batteries, panshi ev platform

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:50:20 +0000

CATL has developed a new EV platform it says will reduce development time for new models from years to months.

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Plan To Sell Scout Vehicles Directly To The Public Has California Volkswagen Dealers Hopping Mad

December 29, 2024 admin auto dealers, auto dealers associations, auto dealerships, cncda, Electric vehicles, national automobile dealers association (nada), policy & politics, scout motors, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:01:52 +0000

Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to begin manufacturing a whole new class of vehicles under the Scout Motors brand. Scout was originally a sub-brand of International Harvester, with all the technological sophistication that name implies. The company started as a manufacturer of farming equipment and machinery, which means its … [continued]

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The Media Has It Wrong: 92% Of Electric Vehicle Owners Worldwide Would Definitely Buy Another EV

December 29, 2024 admin electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev drivers, fast charging, global ev market

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:29:19 +0000

To our electric vehicle (EV) owners: If you found yourself with the choice to buy another EV or return to an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV), which would you do? Well, if you are like most participants in a recent study, you’d replace it with another EV. Those are the … [continued]

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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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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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