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Top 10 Reasons Why Tesla Offers A BMW Experience At A Toyota Price

CleanTechnica EVs

In this article, I explain 6 reasons Tesla matches or exceeds the luxury features of BMW, Mercedes, and Audi; and also 4 reasons why Tesla vehicles as affordable as Toyota & Honda vehicles. Tesla needs to get the word out on this, since it is having some difficulty selling its cars at current prices as […]

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Are Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru Doing the Right Thing By Snubbing EVs?

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Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru conducted a press event designed to explain why they’re walking away from full-blown electrification. From Automotive News : But the presentation, led by Toyota, left plenty of questions unanswered. Looking at the actual technology plans, only Toyota presented something entirely new. liter and 2.0-liter

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Toyota takes on new, yet familiar EV strategy

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The newly appointed CEO of Toyota, Koji Sato, has explained how he plans to change the company’s EV strategy in the coming years. Toyota has faced considerable criticism for its electrification plan, with most critics believing it to be too slow to be effective. First, Toyota would still aim for 3.5

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UH, Toyota researchers develop new cathode and electrolyte for high-power Mg battery rivaling Li-ion

Green Car Congress

The combination affords a Mg battery that delivers a specific power of up to 30.4?kW?kg His group recently published a review article in Nature Energy on the roadmap to better multivalent batteries. 1 , nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of state-of-the-art Mg batteries.

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Tesla’s new customers come from Toyota, Honda most frequently: study

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S&P Global Mobility found, most notably, that over a quarter of Tesla buyers were coming from either Toyota or Honda. of customers came from either Toyota (15.3%) or Honda (13.3%). What do you think of the article? Now, data has been published showing which brands are losing the most customers to Tesla.

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Chevy Bolt’s Battery Issues Could Be A Blessing In Disguise For General Motors

CleanTechnica EVs

When I read this brilliant article by Paul Fosse on why the new BYD Dolphin will convince millions to go electric, my first thought was, hmm, the Dolphin could actually be the new Corolla. The Toyota Corolla has been an unprecedented success because it is an affordable compact/subcompact car made for the masses.

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Hyundai & Kia take second place after Tesla in US EV sales

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Based on sales data from S&P Global, Hyundai Motor Group is behind big names in the global auto market, including Toyota, Ford, and General Motors. Hyundai Motor Group chose to focus on smaller and more affordable electric vehicles for the US EV Market. Hyundai and Kia’s EVs seem to check off all those boxes.

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