Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

US gasoline and diesel consumption continue to remain below their 2019 averages. Crude oil prices have generally risen since the start of the year partly as a result of geopolitical developments, particularly Russia’s war against Ukraine. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In 2019, the rule of thumb over-predicted reality by 35%. In 2019, the rule of thumb over-predicted reality by 23%. In other words, multiplying the amount of battery capacity deployed onto roads in December of a given year by twelve yields a result that tends to be within +/- 12% of the actual deployment in the year to follow.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Both Next-Battery and Lvchi will proceed with key visits in Ukraine and China during Q1 2019 with a view to formalizing a commercial collaboration venture in China designed to fast track the commercial roll-out and development of Next-Battery.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

Although Germany, the UK, US, Canada and Ukraine are phasing out domestic coal production capacity, expansion of production capacity in countries such as India and Indonesia is predicted to generate modest annual growth of 1.3% There are more than 300 coal projects potentially commencing operations between 2019 and 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

Despite efforts to continue stimulating the US economy in the wake of the pandemic, high inflation put a damper on economic growth, which was exacerbated by a spike in oil prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, the US economy grew 1.9% in 2022, down from a 5.7% GDP increase in 2021. compared to the previous year.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In June 2015, just 16 months after Russia illegally invaded Ukraine’s Crimea and Donbas regions, OneWeb chose to tie itself at the hip to the unstable aggressor with a firm $1-1.5 billion contract that committed the entirety of its first satellite constellation to 21 Russian Soyuz rockets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019. Trade flows have been disrupted by challenges in logistics and transportation, trade barriers, and a re-wiring of relationships following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. More recently, labor costs started to rise.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to 3.2%], primarily due to an increase in international aviation, but oil use remains below 2019 levels and have not fully recovered from the COVID19 pandemic in 2020. to 8.0%), driven by a 5% increase in coal emissions, a sharp projected rise in oil of 10% back to 2019 levels, but a decline in gas of 4%. for oil, 1.1% for cement.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2022

Gas prices have skyrocketed over the past few weeks due to the emerging crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, a gas price app, said (via Car and Driver ), “To make it implicitly clear, this is the cost of bipartisan sanctions on Russia for their war on Ukraine. ($4/gallon)

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Teslarati

MAY 8, 2022

billion for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2020, and 2021, respectively,” reported Rivian in the filing. “We The EV manufacturer also stated that the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted its business and operations. We have incurred net losses since our inception, including net losses of $0.4 billion, $1.0

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2022

In a 2019 email retrieved by CNBC , for example, Musk stated that “it will probably make sense to take Starlink public in about three years or so.” Starlink is also playing a notable role in the Russia-Ukraine war, with the satellite internet system helping Ukrainians stay online despite Russia’s efforts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

The electrification of ŠKODA’s model range will begin as early as 2019 with the launch of the ŠKODA SUPERB with plug-in hybrid drive. Škoda operates at three locations in the Czech Republic, produces in China, Russia, Slovakia and India mainly through Group partnerships, as well as in Ukraine and Kazakhstan through local partners.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In an interview with Turan , Gunduz pointed out that Ukraine’s experience and that of other nations confirmed Starlink’s value during crisis situations. ” In 2019, Gunduz pointed out that Azerbaijan’s private providers and state institutions have been unable to use the state-owned able-channel system.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

This milestone was followed by the launch of the compact Karoq in 2017, the Kamiq city SUV in 2019, and the all-electric Enyaq SUV in 2021. The Kodiaq RS, introduced in autumn 2018, marked the first SUV in Skoda’s sporty RS family.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Ukraine's grid held, even as Russia damaged substations, lines and generators—a remarkable and heroic (though largely unheralded) achievement. Ukranian President Volodimir Zelenskyy Still, operating as an electrical island left Ukraine more vulnerable to Russia’s army, including its cyberwarriors. ius told IEEE Spectrum yesterday.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Excess death rates were particularly high in eastern European countries, such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine, with more than 200 each year per 100,000 of the population. When they looked at individual countries, the researchers found that air pollution caused an excess death rate of 154 per 100,000 in Germany (a reduction of 2.4

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Rivian was forced to push prices upward due to materials costs soaring after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and these examples are just two of many. Despite this, EV adoption has increased every year since 2019. Supply chain bottlenecks have also forced consumers to push back wait times for EVs considerably.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Of course, other, more serious stories also got attention—such as the 5G rollout that had pilots on edge and the changing role (and effectiveness) of Russia’s electronic warfare usage in its invasion of Ukraine. 2022 saw the debut of Wi-Fi standard 802.11be.

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2023

With Western automobile companies withdrawing from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, the local manufacturer Kamaz has developed plans to revive Soviet-era Moskvitch as an EV brand. It was originally scheduled for 2019, then 2021 and most recently it was hoping to get going later in 2023. Moskvitch 2023 Moskvitch 3.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

A surge in the cost of jet fuel after Russia invaded Ukraine also hurt profits. But the Max series has been plagued by mechanical and safety issues, including two crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed nearly 350 people and led to the grounding of the Max 8 for nearly two years. Many airline executives are now assessing how the F.A.A.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Stanley Wittingham, along with the late John Goodenough , are credited as key figures in the invention of the lithium-ion battery in the early 1970s (the two of them shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 with Akira Yoshino). Wittingham had a few peeves to get off his chest and did so at a symposium this past April at Stanford.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Ben Kilbey: Britishvolt was founded in 2019 by our CEO Orral Nadjari. Raw material prices have been going through the roof, and the invasion of Ukraine hasn’t helped. Right now, I’m sitting in Coventry at an organization called UKBIC [UK Battery Industrialisation Centre], who we’ve partnered with to execute that scale-up work.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2022

It’s an unstable situation that—like Russia’s military actions—increases the risk of accidents that could spread radiation across Europe and threatens Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. Ukraine's 15 reactors generate over half of its electricity. President Joe Biden in 2019. attract[ed] its agents into all the spheres!

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

In 2019, Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, presided over the installation of a bidirectional charging station in Utrecht. By 2019, Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands , was presiding over the installation of a bidirectional charging station in Utrecht. Energy prices now strain many households to the breaking point.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia has invaded Ukraine without provocation, triggering a series of diplomatic responses – sanctions in particular – that recently culminated in the aggressor deciding to cut ties with Europe on a number of cooperative spaceflight projects. Further adding to the mire, even Cygnus is not immune.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

and EU Ukraine-related economic and financial sanctions. Both, it would seem, have incentive to do so, as each has lost over $100 billion in crude revenues in 2015—and Russia bears the extra burden of U.S. In inflation adjusted terms, Russian GDP in current prices, national currency would be below 2015 levels in 2020).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. So far, Rosatom has avoided Western sanctions over Russian aggression in Ukraine. But TENEX has still become untenable for many of its would-be customers.

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EV Connect

MAY 16, 2022

For starters, EV sales increased 67% between 2019 and 2020 , the same year that overall vehicle sales fell by 16%. The cause for this increase in gas prices is at the root of our next topic… Global Conflict Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and subsequent war crimes have dominated world politics since March.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

in 2019, is projected to decline further to 2.2 In 2019, fertility remains above 2.1 years in 2019, is expected to increase further to 77.1 In 2019, life expectancy at birth in the least developed countries lags 7.4 In 2019, life expectancy at birth in the least developed countries lags 7.4 years in 1990 to 72.6

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

population projections for 2050 ( released in 2019) show continued global growth, mainly because African TFRs are still mostly above 3. percent), while the low-growth forecast sees declines of 26 percent in Ukraine, 16 percent in Italy, 15 percent in Russia, 13 percent in Spain, and nearly 9 percent in China. The latest U.N.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 13, 2023

The Iranian drones that the Russians are buying and launching into Ukraine. GPT-2 in 2019, I think, and last year, GPT-3 and ChatGPT. You can put the capability of something like a GPT into a drone. Look what the drone attacks are doing right now. The basic invention that made this possible are transformer networks, right?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. In our model, using electricity from the 2019 U.S. You also must consider the electricity that charges the vehicle. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

When GM workers went on strike in 2019, you saw gross state product drop in Michigan in the fourth quarter, while in the rest of the country it was largely unaffected. “If we were to have a long strike in 2023, the state of Michigan and parts of the Midwest would go into a recession,” said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Link to the 2019 list (from there you can get to older ones). Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! in 2019 to 4% in 2020. Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! It *is* literal madness to keep doing it.

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