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What’s the State of Hydrogen Vehicles in 2022?

Clean Fleet Report

Many people credit General Motors with the first hydrogen-powered vehicle in 1966, which looks like a solid-color version of Fred’s Mystery Machine. Today, there are nearly 8,000 fast-charging stations for electric cars in the United States (and many more of the slower Level 2 type. first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. At the turn of the 20th century, utilities promoted the use of electric truck fleets to soak up excess electricity.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Let’s check out the list. Will it come to Australia?

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Can General Motors bounce back? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The beleaguered automotive industry in the United States has taken its fair share of knocks over the last 12 months but none were more shocking than when one of the oldest and most well-respected brands in motoringGeneral Motors (GM) – slipped into bankruptcy earlier this year. How GM hopes to recover.

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Hummer achieves 100mpg

Green Cars News

Raser Vice President David West is expected to speak at the convention on “Scaling Up from an Idea to Production.”. It’s designed to go about 40 miles in all-electric mode after which a small gas powered engine kicks in and powers a generator which then re-charges the batteries.

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

Clean Fleet Report

Now they’re rolling under their own power. Today’s vehicle manufacturing companies have ramped up domestic EV production and are exploring the latest roadway innovations. Department of Justice and the SEC brought related civil charges against the company, which were settled when Nikola agreed to pay a $125 million fine.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

We fully expected to have one or two contenders from General Motors’ ambitious lineup of Ultium-based vehicles contending for the Most Important title. The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. and Canada chosen by their peers.

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