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Hyundai's Auto Expo Presentation: Our Thoughts

Plug In India

Hey Hyundai- we understand that the South Korean government has been lobbied by the auto industry to support Hydrogen - but no one in India cares. 99% of Hydrogen is produced using natural gas methane reforming and India cannot afford to waste our resources in extremely wasteful technologies like Hydrogen.

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137. BATTERY MANAGEMENT IS DISRUPTING THE VALUE CHAIN IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES: THE CHANGING SUPPLY CHAIN — PART 2

Qnovo

The result is an accelerating race to deliver electric vehicles with increasing performance, affordability, and choice. We are in the midst of deep disruption to the auto industry. Historically, volumes were sufficiently small that the auto makers controlled or manufactured many such systems in house.

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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

Of course, the lack of DC fast charging, at least at the time of reporting, will make longer journeys more or less impractical. Strom should take money from investors who are not from the auto industry. The car costs Rs 4.5 Lakhs for the 200 km variant. Strom also offers a 120 and 160 km variant.

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2024 Polestar 2 Dual Motor Review - Not A Smart Time To Be Sexy Anyway

The Truth About Cars

Anyhow, it’s rather interesting that while most of the auto industry has been veering toward crossovers and SUVs for the past two decades, the most popular electric vehicles by far are, functionally, sedans. And maybe sock away something with an engine in a place, far outside the wire, that used to be a farm.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

We still don't have DC fast charging stations on our highways. Electric Vehicle Industry Highs in 2020 ​Tata Nexon EV ​This electric car launch from Tata Motors has changed the perception of electric cars in the minds of many people who were skeptical about EV's. It's now up-to the auto industry to launch more EV's.

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Tesla supplier Talon Metals on Manchin EV Bill, Tesla & more

Teslarati

Todd is based in Washington DC for Talon and therefore has a front-row seat to the wrangling among various parties regarding Senator Manchin’s new EV tax incentives in the Infrastructure Reduction Act of 2022. We can not afford a disorganized, uncoordinated, and inefficient regulatory process that causes unnecessary delays in progress.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. Posted by: Green Chambers | Apr 14, 2009 12:25:03 AM Battery tech is still not advanced or reliable enough for an affordable pure EV, hydrogen fuel cells like in the FCX Clarity may be the clean future, but there are too many technical and infrastructure hurdles to overcome.

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