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Has Nikola’s Founder’s Fraudulent Activity Changed the EV Conversation?

Clean Fleet Report

Then Nikola’s Founder’s fraudulent activity was uncovered, and the conversation surrounding EVs has changed for better or worse. Now they’re rolling under their own power. For example, Freightliner developed the eCascadia semi for regional distribution, which gets 230 miles of range and will charge to 80% charge in 1.5

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AMPLY Power and AECOM partner to bolster bus electrification for transit agencies

Green Car Congress

By combining AMPLY’s operational expertise and Charging-as-a-Service technology with AECOM’s specialization in large-scale transportation and utility projects, the partnership provides transit agencies with a turnkey approach to optimize their infrastructure and operations for electrification.

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We buy a used Porsche Taycan! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas

EV Central

A Taycan’s DC charge port is behind the front left wheel, and Tesla chargers are designed for Teslas to back into position and recharge at their rear-mount ports. Arse-hole parking engaged: charging a Porsche Taycan RWD with a Tesla Supercharger. Study finance, not motoring journalism, if you want to have nice things.

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Visitor remark: Sellers, prep for immediately communicate on charges, price

Baua Electric

For the primary generation in an extended generation, gross sales and finance-and-insurance workforce are being challenged to respond to questions on rates of interest. Salespeople should be skilled to respond to those questions as it should be for purchasers who’ve contacted banks pre-sale and mentioned charges with them.

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F&I places of work are dealing with extra money offer

Baua Electric

When a buyer whose closing mortgage had a 2.9 % APR is obtainable 7.9 % as of late, “they’re about to lose their mind,” he stated. Conversely, the Fed’s goal charge had risen from 0 to 0.25 % from the beginning of 2022 to five to five.25 Consequently, shoppers choose to pay money rather.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

million vehicles, and we’re seeing about half of people use it so far. For a while there, we were training-constrained in our progress, and we are, at this point, no longer training-constrained, and so we’re making rapid progress. We’re making sure that we’re being efficient as possible in our training.

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Drive Electric Submission: Auckland Transport Parking Strategy

Drive Electric

We are aware that the Government is currently developing a long-term EV charging infrastructure strategy, being coordinated by the Ministry of Transport. This will particularly focus on increasing the access to residential charging. Specific ideas are provided in this section 2.4 of this paper.