Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2016

GM also announced it will produce the next generation of its autonomous test vehicles at its Orion Township assembly plant beginning in early 2017. Within the next few months, testing will expand to metro Detroit, which will become GM’s main location for development of autonomous technology in winter climates.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? That has its own problems.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. The Arizona-built Lucid Air sedan, the work of Musk's former Model S chief engineer, has demonstrated it can travel up to 517 miles , a lofty record for any EV.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Current EV infrastructure building codes require the integration of EV infrastructure into new construction projects. The core requirements of the 2021 IECC model code for new multifamily buildings are as follows: Source: [link]. Most existing buildings are not equipped with EV-ready parking spaces and EV-Capable infrastructure.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Lucid has the hardware and software expertise to use the full energy of the battery while preserving battery life and fast charging performance in hot and cold climates.” How does that work? In other words: “We’re not saying.”. Over the break, engineers doubled the battery voltage from the standard 400 volts.

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