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A cheap Toyota EV? Not right now, the company says

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If you were waiting for a smaller, cheaper Toyota electric car, you may have to keep waiting. Toyota has no current plans to launch a cheap EV despite demand building. Toyota’s European product development boss, Andrea Carlucci, told Autocar that battery costs make a cheap EV unlikely. The post A cheap Toyota EV?

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BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

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This is equivalent to gas priced at $6-12/MMBtu, making it competitive with current natural gas prices in Brazil, China, India, Germany and Scandinavia on an energy-equivalent basis. Note: Clean hydrogen refers to both renewable and low-carbon hydrogen (from fossil-fuels with CCS). Abatement cost with hydrogen at $1/kg (7.4/MMBtu).

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries. By contrast, in solid-electrode batteries such as those commonly found in cars and mobile devices, the power conversion hardware and energy capacity are packaged together in one unit and cannot be decoupled. —Michael J.

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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. BYD launched its Seagull, a small hatchback EV with a price tag starting at 69,800 yuan (~$9,773), at the Shanghai Auto Show last year. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

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Besides the low cost of ownership, electric motorcycles improve the riding experience, taking away the noise, fumes, vibration, shifting, and clutching from the user experience, alongside the environmental benefits of low emissions. Source: ACEM, EAFO, IDTechEx.

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Initial Results of UK EV Driver Study Show Increased Confidence and Low Cost Recharging

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Collecting real-world analysis of electric vehicles is essential in understanding actual demands and requirements of low carbon vehicles for consumers. —Brian Price, lecturer in Engineering Systems and Management at Aston. The low cost of ‘refuelling’ in relatively short periods of time reinforce this.

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China’s EV market hits its stride with 1-in-3 sales being electrified

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Meanwhile, fully-electric car sales grew by 91 percent. With these sales numbers, pure EVs now account for 20 percent of new car sales in China in 2022, and electrified vehicles overall account for 25 percent. The report points out that this could mean that the majority of Chinese vehicle sales could be electric by 2025.

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