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France Launches 14-Point Plan to Accelerate Development of Electric Cars and Plug-in Hybrids; 1.5B for Charging Infrastructure, New 625M Li-ion Battery Plant

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billion) to establish a network of 1 million charging points by 2015 and the building of a €625 million (US$910 million) lithium-ion battery plant at a plant owned by Renault with a public contribution of €125 million (US$182 million) toward the total. Availability of a standard outlet to charge the cars outside of the home.

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Road Test: 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 350 4matic

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The EPA found the EQE 350’s all-electric driving range to be 280 miles, slightly less than the 350 Plus and 500 4matic. The EQE comes standard with active steering assist, stability control, and ours had the optional ($1,300) 10-degree rear axle steering. inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) infotainment touchscreen.

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Launching in early 2021, the $50K – $60K Audi Q4 e-tron EV will offer 280 e-miles

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The vehicle’s 82.0kWh Lithium-ion battery has produced 280 miles of range in European test trials, and weighs just 1124 pounds – less than the batteries of other EVs in its class. That range may be adjusted by EPA testing here in the USA. To preserve electric range, the EV’s top speed is governed at 112mph.

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The 2021 Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron 4-door, 5-passenger EV coupe crossover is here!

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For 2021, these two e-trons are offered with optimized drive system hardware and software adjustments, which have improved efficiency, resulting in an EPA-estimated range of 222 miles for the e-tron (an increase of 18 miles), and an EPA-estimated range of 218 miles for the Q4 e-tron Sportback.

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DOE to award up to $184M for advanced vehicle research and development in 8 areas of interest

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The focus of this subtopic is the development and demonstration of new materials or battery components that offer a 50% reduction in cost over existing state-of-the-art Li-ion technologies while maintaining, or nearly maintaining, existing performance standards.

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DOE to award $49.4M for advanced vehicle technologies research; meeting Tier 3 emissions

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AOI 3: Beyond Lithium Ion Technologies. ($8M) Applications are to organize tasks and schedule into two Phases. Key emissions of interest in order of importance are NO x , non-methane organic gasses and Hydrocarbons (NMOG & HC), and particulate matter (PM). Areas of interest.

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Abt life-cycle analysis of different Li-ion chemistries for PHEVs and EVs identifies opportunities for improving environmental profile of batteries

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Generic process flow diagram for lithium-ion batteries for vehicles (color coded to present LCI data sources). For example, the nickel cobalt manganese lithium-ion (Li-NCM) chemistry relies on rare metals like cobalt and nickel, for which the data indicated significant non-cancer and cancer toxicity impact potential.

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