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NIO aims for swap stations to serve partly as showrooms in underdeveloped cities

CN EV Post

Qin did not disclose specific numbers but said NIO's average cost of user service this year could be a quarter of what it was in 2018. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Distance driven per person is still down from its maximum in 2004

Green Car Congress

This article is the latest in a series that examines recent changes in various aspects of road transportation in the United States. The focus here is on distance driven per person as opposed to total distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The period covered is 1984 through 2018.

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EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

Green Car Congress

The Commission’s approval of this project forms part of the context of the wider Commission efforts to support the development of an innovative and sustainable European battery industry. In 2018, the Commission adopted the Strategic Action Plan for Batteries and has promoted a wide range of initiatives as part of the plan.

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 2: End of the Manufacturer Sales Phaseout

EV Adoption

In part 1 of this series we provided a high-level summary and handy table of the 9 key proposed changes to the federal EV tax credit. In this part 2 article, we’ll dive deeply into the elimination of the per manufacturer 200,000 EVs sold phaseout. Elimination of the Manufacturer 200,000 EVs Sold Phaseout Threshold.

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California ARB mods to ZEV regulations for IVMs would result in ~1.9% drop in total ZEV/TZEV units 2018-2025; no impact on air quality requirements

Green Car Congress

Last week, ARB staff issued a correction to the staff report on the changes issued as part of the September announcement; the earlier report had included text from an earlier version of the ZEV regulation, but the substance of the proposed amendments were not affected. by about 1.9%. They’ve done a great job of producing great cars.

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The Future We Saw Coming Is Now

Cars That Think

By the time we gave all the details in a 2019 feature article , it was clear that this device was destined to be the successor to the FinFET. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has played an enormous part in bankrolling some of the fundamental advances that appear in these pages. Speaking of commitment, the U.S.

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