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NIO plans to enter the U.S. by 2025

Teslarati

At the same time, the company has already made significant strides in expanding to European countries such as France and the UK. What do you think of the article? On their U.S. website , NIO lists six current models, mainly consisting of crossovers and SUVs. The company has many specifications for the models shown.

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Why you might be charging your EV wrong – and what to do instead

Baua Electric

Professors Frances Sprei of Sweden’s Chalmers University and Willett Kempton of the University of Delaware are EV technology and usage experts. The article points out that the problem with using the old “monitor gauge” model is that EV recharging and gasoline refueling require different strategies.

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Valeo bets on ADAS, electrification; showcases new tech at CES – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The France-based Tier-1 supplier has created hardware and perception software functions for LiDAR technology to create real-time visuals for autonomous vehicle systems. For this, Valeo is working with a European automaker to accelerate the product maturity for the next EV application, beginning in 2028.

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MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

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Among the electrochemical processes, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on water oxidation is efficiency-limiting for direct solar and electrolytic water splitting (H 2 O → H 2 + ½ O 2 ), rechargeable metal-air batteries (M x O 2 → M x + O 2 ) and regenerative fuel cells. —Grimaud et al. “We Batteries Catalysts Fuel Cells'

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2023, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Number one? Heat pumps. Number two?

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Germany launches EV plan

Revenge of the Electric Car

’ Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. China, France and U.K. Adding to the obstacles are issues such as the vehicles’ reach, the battery life, the time for recharging as well as providing sufficient infrastructure with charging stations. By Christoph Rauwald.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

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The company had already delivered more than 700 vehicles by the end of September, 2009 (see article ). It has a 50mile all-electric range and features the Q-Drive technology, a series hybrid system that mates the engine with a generator to provide an electrical connection and recharge the batteries (see article ).