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Panasonic cools on idea for third US plant for Tesla batteries

Baua Electric

Panasonic Group CEO Yuki Kusumi told Reuters that the company is holding off on building a third plant as “demand for electric vehicles cools.” Panasonic, whose main US customer is Tesla, produces some 10% of the batteries found in electric vehicles around the world. Get started here.

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Personal: Range Anxiety Be Damned!

Clean Fleet Report

I ended up parked at a FreeWire charger that was almost blocked by two ICE vehicles. The good news was that the charger worked! But the nav system doesn’t know this and thought that going about 170 miles with only 180-mile range wasn’t a very smart idea, so it planned the stop. What the charger said. It charged $0.35

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Nissan Leaf’s phaseout might be good for the Japanese automaker: Opinion

Teslarati

According to Automotive News’ sources, Nissan plans to retire its all-electric Leaf model and replace it with a different battery electric vehicle to compete with the more tech-savvy EVs in the market. Phasing out the Nissan Leaf might be a good idea for the Japanese automaker. The Modern-Day EV.

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Toyota says hybrids are better than Teslas, and I say I’m better than Shakespeare

EV Central

But let’s let Sean speak for himself here: “[Battery electric vehicles] make sense right now in places like Norway where most energy is renewable and incomes are high but Australia is not Europe,” he said. “In Toyota’s market share has been dropping in Australia and the electric vehicle market share has been growing.”

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Tesla Model S falls from cliff, gets totaled; owner walks with a scratch on his arm

Teslarati

Needless to say, the crash has caught the attention of the online electric vehicle community, including CEO Elon Musk, who liked a Twitter post about the incident’s aftermath. . The idea of a Tesla protecting its passengers after falling off a cliff may sound crazy to some, but this has actually already happened in the past.

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Tesla 2023 Cyber Roundup (Annual Shareholder Meeting): What to expect

Teslarati

Expectations are high that the event will involve Musk and the electric vehicle maker discussing several critical topics. It is not surprising, then, that TSLA investors are expected to vote on a shareholder proposal for Tesla to publish a report on “Key-Person Risk.”

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Biden-appointed Commerce Sec. calls on Tesla for chip help: ‘Too important to have…feelings hurt’

Teslarati

“None of this is personal,” Raimondo said in the interview. “Anyone who has good ideas or is willing to help us, absolutely we want the help.” GM delivered just 26 electric vehicles in Q4 2021. ” Tesla has a strange relationship with the current U.S. government.

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