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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

EV Central

Even as it considers launching Australia’s cheapest battery electric vehicle, Mitsubishi Australia is warning a slow roll-out of renewable energy will impact the uptake of EVs in Australia. We tend as a motor industry to focus on the charging infrastructure, but we need bigger solutions.

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ACEA study finds cost still strong deterrent for EV uptake across Europe; calls for “realistic” targets recognizing affordability

Green Car Congress

A new study by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) finds that the affordability of electric cars remains a strong deterrent for customers across the EU, along with lack of infrastructure and lack of investment in infrastructure. To put this in context, pure battery-electric cars accounted for just 0.7%

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GreenTech Auto shutters its doors, closes Mississippi factory

Green Car Reports

The harsh reality of high costs and the inexorable heft of the auto industry have claimed another electric-car startup. GreenTech Automotive opened a plant in Mississippi in 2014, first saying it would manufacture a small, two-seat electric vehicle called the MyCar there.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

Cars That Think

It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. In 2010 Nissan used it in its Leaf electric car. Twenty-five years later, the battery is gaining momentum in the auto industry as a means of reducing the cost of electric cars.

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Enter BMW — with Carbon Fiber

Revenge of the Electric Car

BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. It has, however, previously used carbon fiber in race cars as well as body and interior panels for its M Series of performance models. BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. BMW via Motor Authority]. 2009 BMW Concept ActiveE.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. presence in the world’s two largest passenger car markets (China and the. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40.

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BMW i4 EV’s debut at the Geneva Auto Show gets cancelled by COVID-19!

Current EV

Performance-wise, it’s a head-turner as well, powered by a single motor which will generate 390kW of pure e-power (around 530 horsepower), keeping it on a par with one BMW’s V8 combustion engines. Today’s digital-only presentation is the best look yet at “the beginning of the future” of BMW’s electric plans.

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