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EnerDel Partners with Mazda, Itochu, and Others for Smart Grid Integration Project in Japan

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The project involves more than a dozen major partners, including Mazda Motor Corporation and the Japanese industrial trading giant Itochu Corporation. This is the second big opportunity we have had to work with our partners at Think Global to develop a complete drivetrain system for a third party customer. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

The Tesla Model Y undercuts the Model 3 by $5,000 —for those who are EV tax credit eligible—under the latest round of Tesla price cuts made last weekend. And Mazda has applied its design flair to an EZ-6 electric sedan that incorporates tech from China’s Changan Automobile. vehicle share, and about 20% of all cars sold globally.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Honda still has no affordable, mass-market EV, and based on remarks from Honda’s global CEO, that’s not coming soon—or an Accord EV or Odyssey EV—but solid-state batteries may enable an affordable small Honda EV by 2030. Within the span of a few days, Mazda has announced both the adoption of Tesla’s NACS connector for future U.S.

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A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion

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It was a Mazda dealer that allowed Peter Dutton to wander around this week, rubbishing Labor’s plans to save everyone money on their fuel bills while saving the environment at least a tiny bit, and to drop his factless truth bombs about how good we are already and how much it’s all going to drive up the prices of our beloved utes.

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JATO: Euro car market drops 7.9% in June; SUV demand slows; Tesla posts highest market share gain

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—Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. The noticeable YoY drop can be partially explained by the record month of registrations seen in Sweden in June 2018, which came ahead of a new tax hike which hit the market in July of that year. The results of diesel and electric vehicles contrast heavily across Europe.

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EnerDel, ITOCHU Announce Second Smart Grid Battery Storage Project

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It is the second such venture between the two companies, following the announcement last month that they are teaming up with Mazda Motor Corporation on a similar system using vehicles converted to electric drive using a platform designed and built by EnerDel and its partner THINK, which will be stationed at a Family Mart convenience store.

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2021 US EV Sales Scoreboard: RAV4 Prime and Mustang Mach-E Are The Top-Selling Non-Tesla EVs

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The Tesla Model Y and Model 3 of course far outsold any other EV models in the US, however since Tesla neither breaks out deliveries by market or individual model (the company reports global deliveries each for the combined Model 3/Y and S/X models) we can only estimate their sales.

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