Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The world’s first-to-market electric pickup truck, it turns out, isn’t from Ford, General Motors, or a late-to-market Tesla Cybertruck. Rivian, despite a near-$100 billion market cap, has miles and years to go to become “the next Tesla,” the unfortunate albatross that gets hung from the neck of many electric vehicle newbies.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. to hit the 90 percent EV target, sales of all new ICE vehicles across the U.S. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

The EV maker will begin building its new R2 electric SUV at its Normal, Illinois facility to accelerate the launch. Rivian to launch R2 at Normal EV plant, saving $2.25B Rivian introduced its more affordable R2 electric SUV Thursday during a launch event at its new Laguna showroom. Rivian’s R2 will start at $45,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the first group, 16 awards totaling $435 million will support fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations in 21 states, representing more than 50 utilities and electricity organizations with a combined customer base of almost 100 million consumers. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here.

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EV Match

JUNE 2, 2021

3 New Community Electric Vehicle Chargers in Chicago. It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. That’s why part of our mission at EVmatch is to make charging easy, reliable, and accessible to all. Illinois is all in.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 9, 2024

Rivian on Thursday delivered what was expected—the R2 electric SUV. All of the above “When I was first talking about this with RJ we were going through the conception of it and the conversation we had was just, like, I don’t want to fall into a segment, I want people to just say it’s an R3,” recalled Hammoud, in a Q&A session with media.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

However, these innovations are too rarely linked and optimized in a way that can provide a convenient, practical, affordable and sustainable door-to-door trip for the user. SMART is now part of Alcoa Foundation ’s $4-million initiative: Advancing Sustainability Research: Innovative Partnerships for Actionable Solutions. Zielinski, S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win! Car companies could decide that conversions void some or part of the hybrid system warrantyunless they worry that will tarnish its green image.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Driving that timeline is the shift to electric vehicles, which the Administration wants to account for 50 percent of all new cars sold by 2030.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

The automaker has already begun idling auto plants and is warning of future closures to pay for its transition to EVs and to try to keep EV prices affordable. Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. Each mine and factory will need hundreds of workers to operate them.

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EV Connect

MARCH 18, 2021

The electric vehicle industry is officially supercharged. But we’re barely scratching the surface of EV growth: While electric vehicles sales are still comparatively low stacked up to traditional internal combustion vehicles, the EV market share is expected to top 10% within the next four years. billion spend in the Golden State.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Electric field swing adsorption for carbon capture applications. Earlier post.) DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

In a follow-up Hyundai Ioniq 6 test drive , Green Car Reports found that this electric sedan goes the distance for a competitive price—with more range in the real world, or by ratings, versus the Tesla Model 3. But the Ioniq 6 doesn’t quite get it right on all its details. Look for the same formula, potentially, in future pickups.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Fain wants workers to see those benefits restored, claiming the industry can easily afford them. GM likewise dumped an estimated 2,000 workers in Kansas adding that their factory likely would be shut down this week due to a lack of parts stemming from the strike at its Missouri plant. That's a mischaracterization.

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