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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

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The Tesla Model Y undercuts the Model 3 by $5,000 —for those who are EV tax credit eligible—under the latest round of Tesla price cuts made last weekend. And Mazda has applied its design flair to an EZ-6 electric sedan that incorporates tech from China’s Changan Automobile. dealerships to sell its EVs.

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Top 15 questions Tesla investors want answered during the Cyber Roundup 2022

Teslarati

How is Tesla viewing the geopolitical risk between the US and China? What impacts will the upcoming EV tax credit for 2023 have on the demand and pricing of Tesla vehicles? Any idea of the timetable from prototype to first practical use, either in-house or commercially? When will the Semi be available?

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A In Hainan, China, Linglong One —the world’s first small modular reactor plant—is now under construction.) But in the future, not all reactors might be so large.

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Education key in WM Motor’s plan to create a second-hand EV trading platform

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When I read about WM Motor’s idea to launch a trading platform for second hand electric vehicles, my initial thought was that it was doomed to fail. WM’s goal is to be the best-selling BEV in China in terms of delivery 2021, he said. BEVs can qualify for up to $7,500 in federal tax credits. I don’t want to be Mercedes.”.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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As The Wall Street Journal noted in a July 2023 profile , Jenkins has played an “outsized role” in determining where federal cash can have the biggest impact, and politicos like White House clean-energy advisor John Podesta name-drop the professor and his numbers to sell their ideas. Does HVDC have a role to play in the U.S.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

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Every buyer is eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit, pushing the most-affordable Air to $71,400. Lucid plans additional factories in Europe, China and Saudi Arabia. Home on the range Rawlinson is known to scoff at EVs that simply stuff more batteries aboard to achieve stamina targets: "Dumb range," he calls it.

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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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When it comes to EV batteries China marches way ahead of any other country. In 2021, China controlled the global lithium-ion manufacturing industry as around 79% of the lithium-ion batteries that were sold on the international market that year were made in China. This brings me back to my original Idea.

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