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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

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Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

Baua Electric

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Automakers say they won’t try to push back EU’s 2035 ICE ban

Baua Electric

President of the ACEA and CEO of Renault, Luca de Meo told the press this week at the Geneva Motor Show that the auto industry wants no part in arguing “against the regulation,” reports Automotive New Europe. “We FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. We are not contesting 2035,” said de Meo. Get started here.

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Republicans introduce bill that would hand US EV lead to China

Baua Electric

How the Inflation Reduction Act helps American health, economy & manufacturing The Inflation Reduction Act included hundreds of billions of dollars of climate spending, much of which was allocated to EV tax credits, both for personal and commercial vehicles.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” In the past the auto industry has responded to incentives and guidelines set by government agencies and reengineered their product to meet this requirement. But the real story is yet to be told.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Even in the Chinese market where smaller EV sales are booming, profits are not.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sign Up Login All Posts | About & Contact Us | Get a TEC Badge | Getting Started with The Energy Collective Cutting-edge insight on energy and climate that you wont find anywhere but here. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion. car companies and battery makers as much as the Chinese government is going to help BYD.

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