Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. The automaker has already begun idling auto plants and is warning of future closures to pay for its transition to EVs and to try to keep EV prices affordable.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

The BEVs are becoming cheaper than conventional cars and current technology could already electrify over 70% of transport energy demand and lead to a large reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Of total car sales in 2020, electric vehicles account for less than 5% but the segment has grown to 45% to 3.2 Global EV sales.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity to drive the 2023 ID4 AWD Pro S from Nashville to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The ID4 does not have full one-pedal driving where the car can be brought to a complete stop without touching the brake pedal. However once stopped, the car will remain in-place until stepping on the accelerator pedal.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

I’m kind of excited to see this car, having tested the drivetrain in the Nissan Cube. Perhaps he knows how good it feels to drive a quiet, powerful car that doesn’t pollute. He knows that if given the choice, millions of people would choose that over a car that poisons the air and uses mostly foreign energy.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

However, Lee Vinsel , a Virginia Polytechnic Institute technology historian and expert on how regulatory policy has improved auto safety and lowered pollution warns, “Policy reflected in EVs must be crafted to reduce the risks to hundreds of millions of individuals that feel they’re not giving anything up.” Volkswagen’s ID.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. “You guys own the cars.&# Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans. and a third).

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The current tax credit has no cap on the price of an EV meaning electric cars costing well over $100,000 are eligible for the same credit as one costing $40,000. The text of the bill doesn’t define “Other,” but presumably this classification applies to sedans, station wagons, hatchbacks, and sports cars.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It addresses several long-standing criticisms of the previous law: the bias towards high-income car buyers; the bias against early-moving EV makers; and the lack of a provision for used-car buyers. It also appears that auto dealers may be able to convert the credit into a cash-on-the-hood discount for their customers.

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