EV Adoption

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Out of 82 BEVs and PHEVs that are either currently available for sale in the US, or expected to be so by the end of 2022, 67 of them, or 81.7%, have a base manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) higher than $39,999, according to new analysis from EVAdoption. See notes and methodology at the end of this article.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Nissan began accepting reservations for its eagerly anticipated Nissan Leaf today. Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Here is the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By Dana Hull.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

The team found that the vast majority of cars on the road consume no more energy in a day than the battery energy capacity in affordable EVs available today. Trancik (2016) “Potential for widespread electrification of personal vehicle travel in the United States” Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16112 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.112.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2023

The robot that Figure is working towards is a “commercially viable general purpose humanoid,” which is going to look something like this: Obviously, the above video (and all of the robot images in this article) are renderings, and do not show a real robot doing real things. The final robot will be fully electric, 1.6m

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Many of the electric vehicles available today have familiar brand names, but under the hood, these cars often rely on the technology and expertise of outside suppliers. Each of these iconic automakers maintains a museum in the southwestern German city they call home.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

So today I have canceled my subscription of many years. I intend to read the Breeze’s few local articles of community interest for free on their highly unattractive website. With the body of evidence and facts available today, only the ignorant or the malevolent would attempt to mislead their readers so blatantly.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Read more EV Tech Explained articles. This article appeared in Issue 65: July-September 2023 – Subscribe now. That said, history shows that whenever a mechanical solution can be replaced by an electronic one, it is all but sure to be adopted…eventually.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The known fuel technologies available today that are being researched and developed, which we must examine, are the following: 1. One of the largest costs often buried in the rhetoric of each proposed technology is the production and distribution of the basic energy and its carrier. The Hydrogen car and its issues.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most charge points available today take much longer to re-energize batteries than it does to fill a gas-powered cars tank. Perhaps more importantly, quickly "pouring" electricity into many of the batteries available today may stress the very expensive component and shorten their useful lifetime.

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