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Electric Vehicle sales peaked in Q4 2021, Tesla dominates market share with 72%: KBB

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A new report from Kelley Blue Book indicates electric vehicle sales peaked in the United States in Q4 2021, accounting for 4.5 automotive market for EVs was the Mustang Mach-E from Ford, accumulating 27,140 sales and 5.6 percent of all automobile sales in the final three months of the year. The third-most-popular car in the U.S.

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Vaclav Smil: Cars weigh too much

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And new battery-heavy hybrid drives and electric cars will not be lighter: The small all-electric Ford Focus weighs 1.7 metric tons, General Motors’ Volt is more than 1.7 He has published 35 books and more than 400 papers on these topics. metric tons, and the Tesla is just above 2.1 metric tons. —Vaclav Smil.

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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

The Truth About Cars

General Motors announced its intention to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on its upcoming EVs earlier this year. Now we have a new piece out in Motor Trend in which the company explains in so many words that the decision is all about driver safety. Yeah, I have similar feelings here.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Starting in the 1990s, his lithium cobalt oxide cathode was used in many electronic products including camcorders, laptop computers, and mobile phones. And, of course, my [older] brother read really well, and my father was a professor with a lot of books to read. It was terrible.” Stanley Whittingham.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. The pair made major contributions to the propulsion system for the Impact , a battery-powered concept car that AeroVironment built under contract for General Motors.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. It has to be for General Motors, Ford, and so on. Maybe you can describe it.

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SAE International publishes new J2954 wireless charging standard

Green Car Congress

The SAE J2954 standard is a game-changer by giving a ‘cook-book’ specification for developing both the vehicle and charging infrastructure wireless power transfer, as one-system, compatible to 11 kW. The SAE J2954 alignment technology gives additional parking assistance, even allowing for vehicles park and charge themselves autonomously.

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