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Affordable Electric Cars Like BYD Seagull & Wuling Bingo Could Be Big Hit In Africa, Used Car Imports Imply

CleanTechnica EVs

Zimbabwe’s national statistics agency, Zimstat, recently released its Transport Statistics Report for the 2nd Quarter of 2023. The report says as of June 30, 2023, light motor vehicles (up to 2,300 kg) accounted for 76.5% of the 1,583,700 registered vehicles in the country.

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NHTSA and FMCSA propose new safety standard requiring automatic emergency braking systems in heavy vehicles

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would require heavy vehicles to have automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that will mitigate the frequency and severity of rear-end crashes.

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EV Registrations Sit around 7 Percent in March

The Truth About Cars

With that& statistic & in mind, we could have gone the clickbait route and used a headline shouting that “93 Percent of Americans Chose Not to Buy an EV” which would have been technically true but also rather bombastic and would have been an insult to our informed readers. Of course, statistics can be a funny thing.

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JRC study finds 8 metals for low-carbon energy technologies at risk of shortages; EVs, wind and solar, and lighting the applications of most concern

Green Car Congress

The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting. The researchers investigated the sensitivity to these sources of uncertainty in depth for hybrid and electric vehicles and lighting. Increasing primary supply. Substitution.

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California ARB study finds commuters’ exposures to air pollution greatly depends on mode of travel; light rail, personal vehicles the lowest

Green Car Congress

The researchers found that electricity-powered light rail trains offer the least polluted travel environment followed by personal vehicles, while commute trips by older technology diesel-powered trains experienced the highest average air pollution levels in Sacramento. Commute modes included travel by car, bus, light rail, train, and bicycle.

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MIT researchers developing algorithms to predict more accurately which cars are likeliest to run red lights

Green Car Congress

whether or not an oncoming car is likely to run a red light—and validating them using real traffic data. Half of the people killed in such accidents are not the drivers who ran the light, but other drivers, passengers and pedestrians, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). —Jonathan How.

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Self sustaining using prison park ‘a scorching mess,’ panel says

Baua Electric

“You would think that recognizing a red traffic light is pretty simple — use a camera, see if it’s red or is it green,” Fischer mentioned rhetorically. Announcing that self-driving automobiles are statistically more secure, [does that mean] we’re going to present them a number of detached kills?

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