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SAE technical experts: fuel cell technology has advanced significantly, FC vehicle production has begun, further cost reductions & infrastructure development required

Green Car Congress

Accordingly, to offer a product with a competitive value proposition, the industry focus has shifted to increasing the value of the product for the end user from a total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective. Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said.

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Sanyo To Build 30B Plant For Automotive Li-Ion Batteries

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With combined production at the new factory and another plant in Tokushima Prefecture that will begin operating as early as the end of the year, Sanyo plans to boost its overall output capacity of lithium ion batteries by over 500% for about 120,000 vehicles a year. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co. Earlier post.).

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California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Motiv Power Systems, Inc. Tour Engine, Inc. , C/e Solutions, Inc.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

If you’re CATL, you can sell in mass quantities to GM and Ford. So, how quickly the OEMs go through their iterations and learn and equip new products, new battery packs, new chemistries, those sorts of things. Tesla is on gen five because they built that truck from the ground up to be electric, which none of the major OEMs have yet.

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Roev’s electric ute plans explained: Conversions now, manufacturing its own vehicle by 2026

EV Central

Roev, which stands for renewable optimised electric vehicles, has detailed plans to build electric utes, initially starting with Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers converted to electric and eventually branching out to a ute designed and engineered in Australia. It plans to revive car manufacturing in Australia. What is Roev?

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The reason theyre starting with high priced sports cars is because aiming at that market is the easiest way for them to fund R&D and scale up production so they can make smaller more practical EVs for the masses. The combined electrical storage efficiency of charger and batteries is 85%.