Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

From June 2022, Audi models with the latest upgrade of the modular infotainment toolkit (MIB 3) will be holoride-capable. The new technology will be introduced at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in the United States. Visitors there will be able to experience holoride in a moving vehicle. Founded in 2018 by Nils Wollny, Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, and Audi, holoride connects Extended Reality (XR) content in real-time with motion and location-aware vehicle data, such as physical feed

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2022

Earlier this month, Ford suddenly stopped taking orders for two especially popular versions of the Ford Mustang Mach-E—the Premium and California Route 1. That left more than an $18,000 price gap between the base Select, which is only offered with the base 70-kwh Standard Range battery pack, and the top GT, with its included all-wheel drive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

Autonomy , a completely digital vehicle subscription service that provides consumers with a way to subscribe to electric vehicles, and Equifax announced a new partnership. Autonomy will use Equifax InstaTouch ID, a leading mobile consumer identity and authentication solution, along with differentiated data and analytics from Equifax to enable, for the first time, a 100% digital subscription transaction to occur through a consumer’s smartphone in as fast as 10 minutes from start to finish.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2022

With surging gas prices dominating headlines, inventories of fuel-efficient vehicles and EVs are shrinking as supply appears short of demand, according to CarsDirect. A recent search of inventory listings on Cars.com showed just 472 new Toyota Prius hybrids available in the entire United States. Of that total, just 28 were the entry-level Prius L.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

Scantinel Photonics , a FMCW LiDAR startup, has demonstrated the first fully solid-state parallelized FMCW 5D+ LiDAR system based on Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). First fully solid-state parallelized FMCW 5D+ PIC. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology is becoming widely used in various applications such as navigation, robotics, remote sensing, advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous mobility.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2022

Ford and Volkswagen on Monday confirmed an expansion of their relationship around electric vehicles, resulting in a second electric vehicle based on VW’s MEB platform for EVs, as well as a longer-term plan to double Ford’s volume of models on that platform to 1.2 million units over a six-year span. Ford has confirmed that the first.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2022

Aston Martin last week announced a partnership with Britishvolt to develop new battery technology. The goal is to create batteries for a planned "ultra-luxury performance EV," Aston said in a press release. Due to launch in 2025, this will be the British automaker's first production EV after a couple of false starts. Aston's previous EV, a track.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

NetJets Inc., the largest private aviation company in the world, and FlightSafety International, a leader in professional aviation training, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lilium, makers of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet ( earlier post ), for a proposed strategic partnership. The arrangement would provide NetJets with the right to purchase up to 150 Lilium aircraft, introducing more options to NetJets owners to complement their existing flight pat

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2022

Gas prices are leading to a surge of demand for high-mpg vehicles. Demand for the Mustang Mach-E is so strong Ford has put orders on hold. Aston and Britishvolt aim to develop performance batteries. And leave it to Lucid to present EV battery tech with clarity. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Still sorting out energy and power, and why.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

The Washington State Legislature has passed the $16.9-billion, 16-year Move Ahead Washington transportation package. The package makes significant investments in reducing carbon emissions, preservation and maintenance, expanding multimodal options, public transportation and pedestrian safety. Notable investments include: $5.4 billion toward carbon reduction and multimodal expansion. $3 billion for maintenance and preservation. $3 billion for public transportation.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

Elon Musk once noted that Tesla Insurance could someday represent about 30% to 40% of Tesla’s automotive business. Before this could happen, the in-house service must be expanded worldwide. Fortunately, it appears that Tesla has been busy in its efforts to grow its insurance service to more states, with recent insurance filings revealing that the company is looking to start selling vehicle insurance in Oregon and Virginia.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

MARCH 14, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine will likely accelerate reductions in transportation emissions. This week’s blog is co-authored with Erich Muehlegger and David Rapson of UC Davis. On the growing list of … Continue Reading A Silver Lining to the Oil Price Cloud.

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Electrek

MARCH 14, 2022

Tesla has started releasing a big new Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software update with a lot of improvements. The automaker might widen access to the beta if this update “performs well,” according to CEO Elon Musk. more…. The post Tesla starts releasing big Full Self-Driving Beta update appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Dust on solar panels reduces their output significantly, so they need to be kept clean. But what’s the best way to do that? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have a solution. more…. The post Scientists figured out a way to clean dust off of solar panels without using water appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2022

Most of our readers are probably old enough to remember the days when CRT televisions and computer monitors were frequently seen sitting by curbs, abandoned by consumers who had upgraded to the newer and superior flat-screen technologies. For our younger readers: a CRT video display had a convex glass screen, it tapered towards the back […].

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Electrek

MARCH 14, 2022

Tesla has implemented big price increases throughout its entire vehicle lineup in an overnight update to its online configurator. Its cheapest electric car, Model 3, now starts at $47,000. more…. The post Tesla increases prices throughout whole lineup, its cheapest electric car now starts at $47,000 appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2022

On December 25, 2022, Tesla owners got notification of a new software update and most of us downloaded it like we always do. The download caused the biggest reorganization of the user interface (UI) that I have seen in the over two years I have owned my Model 3. I generally like the new UI, […].

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

The Tesla Model 3 was recently deemed by Kelley Blue Book as one of the winners in its 5-Year Cost to Own Awards for 2022. KBB’s 5-Year Cost to Own Award explores the costs associated with the ownership of a vehicle. This includes the vehicle’s price, maintenance costs, fuel or charging rates, any state tax, and registration fees, as well as a car’s depreciation over a 5-year ownership period, among others.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

It is the fate of many a dead satellite to spend its last years tumbling out of control. A fuel line may burst, or solar wind may surge, or there may be drag from the outer reaches of the atmosphere—and unless a spacecraft has been designed in some way that keeps it naturally stable, chances are good that it will begin to turn end over end. That’s a problem, because Earth orbit is getting more and more crowded.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

Tesla sales in Germany are going strong, with the Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover commanding a lead in the country’s electric vehicle segment. This is quite an impressive accomplishment for Tesla, especially considering that its local EV production facility, Gigafactory Berlin, is yet to commence operations. Monthly sales data from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) for February 2022 revealed that Tesla saw 3,690 Model 3 registrations last month, making it the most popular electric

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InsideEVs

MARCH 14, 2022

The Fiat 500e-based electric performance model will be Abarth's first battery-powered car.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

SpaceX has been spotted transporting a Falcon Heavy booster through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) facilities, offering a slight glimpse behind the scenes amid a seemingly unending series of launch delays for the most powerful operational rocket in the world. Continuing a recent surge of Falcon Heavy booster appearances at or around SpaceX facilities, the latest instance saw the company transporting new, unflown Falcon Heavy center core south through KSC to its HangarX rocket storage an

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 14, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote that DOER had announced its proposed regulations to up the energy requirements in Massachusetts’ base and stretch energy codes. DOER has also proposed a new “specialized opt-in,” which municipalities may choose to opt-up to and which complies with the Climate Roadmap Statute’s requirement for a definition of net-zero to be added to code.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

An official Russian video posted on Twitter has fueled rampant speculation that the country’s beleaguered space agency intends to abandon NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station. . On March 5th, a Russian state news outlet “RIA Novosti” shared a video on Twitter that depicted Mark Vande Hei being left on the Internation Space Station, rather than departing on board the Russian Soyuz spacecraft as planned.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 14, 2022

Panasonic has been working on its 4680 battery cell for well over a year, and it has been a difficult process.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

Tesla and SpaceX are experiencing substantial “inflation pressure,” according to CEO Elon Musk, who hinted toward potential price increases for his electric automotive company’s products in the coming months. It appears inflation pressure has already contributed to increases in Tesla’s average transaction price, which spiked more than any other major automaker from January to February 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book data.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 14, 2022

A Rivian engineer uses his personal YouTube channel to share footage of an autonomous highway drive in the electric pickup.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

The release notes for Tesla FSD Beta v10.11 were recently shared online, and they highlighted a number of critical improvements coming to the advanced driver-assist system. Elon Musk noted that if v10.11 performs well, Tesla would consider lowering the program’s Safety Score requirement to 95, an exciting move for drivers who haven’t been able to qualify for the FSD Beta program so far. “If this version performs well, we can probably lower min safety score to 95,” Musk noted.

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Electrek

MARCH 14, 2022

Ford and VW announced that they are expanding their electrification partnership, and the former is going to release a second electric car based on VW’s MEB platform. more…. The post Ford to release second electric car based on VW’s MEB platform appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

Ford’s electric vehicle unit — known as Model e — announced today that it would take massive steps to expand its electric vehicle project in Europe. Ford, which recently split its electric vehicle and combustion engine businesses into two divisions, is aiming to roll out seven new electric vehicles in Europe by 2024 with an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles by 2026.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 14, 2022

Imagine taking delivery of your new German-built Tesla Model Y to your own personal choice of music.

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

SpaceX drone ship Just Read The Instructions (JRTI) has departed Port Canaveral in anticipation of the company’s sixth consecutive Starlink launch. Known as Starlink 4-12, the mission will be SpaceX’s sixth uninterrupted Starlink launch – just shy of the company’s record of seven Starlink launches between commercial payloads.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 14, 2022

The first to arrive will be a VW MEB-based crossover in 2023, followed by a sportier variant and the Puma EV in 2024.

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