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Are Solid-State Batteries the Next Big Breakthrough for EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Are solid-state electric vehicle (EV) batteries a solution to some of the issues with the lithium-ion batteries powering our EVs today? CONTACTS : The search for a better EV battery ; Toyota’s Rival In Solid-State EV Development Is A Supplier: Schaeffler.

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Audi scraps A2 electric car plan

Green Cars News

Premium car maker Audi is planning a u-turn on some of its electric car plans according to automotive magazine, Car. According to the British mag, Audi has cancelled its plans to produce a battery-powered A2 model and is likely to axe plans for the A1 e-tron hybrid.

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Seasonal Tips: Getting the Best Range from Your EV

Clean Fleet Report

With that in mind, let’s explore a few seasonal tips for optimizing your EV’s range, looking at how winter, spring, summer and fall can affect your car’s performance. According to a Consumer Reports experiment , the magazine staff found that EVs can lose a significant amount of battery power during colder months.

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The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Cars That Think

We're living in battery-powered times. Incredible amounts of capital are going into gigaplants that produce millions of battery cells per day, and there are rivers of cash flowing to R&D on advanced batteries. Batteries are key to decarbonizing our economies. Tesla is now, arguably, a battery company.

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Glamping With the Stars

Baua Electric

George, Utah, I rented a car and headed southeast, the Pine Valley Mountains hovering to the north. As I got out of my car, I looked up at the sky warily. I got dressed, grabbed a battery-powered lantern and stepped out into the night. Hoping for good weather In St. Clouds were gathering.

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How EV Connect Can Help With EV Fleet Management

EV Connect

It continues on through how you think about deployment — which cars have sufficient battery power available and where will they recharge along the route? And it affects questions of maintenance — you no longer need to worry about oil changes and similar maintenance, but how are you maximizing battery life and efficiency?

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

Cars That Think

From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. Ron Hubbard a prolific writer is an extreme understatement. Not to be constrained by genre, he wrote zombie mysteries , historical fiction , pirate adventure tales, and westerns.