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UK Electric Car number cross 500,000 mark

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This has been blamed on supply shortages, and Government grants worth up to £1,500 for purchases of new plug-in cars being scrapped in June. The cost-of-living crisis is also leading many people to “hang on to their existing car for a bit longer”, he added. At the end of August, the year-to-date increase had fallen to 49%.

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Ford Reaches Tentative Deal With UAW, Workers Return

The Truth About Cars

This agreement sets us on a new path to make things right at Ford, at the Big Three, and across the auto industry. The agreement reinstates major benefits lost during the Great Recession, including Cost-of-Living Allowances and a three-year Wage Progression, as well as killing divisive wage tiers in the union.

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1.65 lakhs electric vehicles supported under the FAME II scheme 

Electric Vehicles India

As per the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) report, the Auto industry generates employment of 13 persons for each truck, 6 persons for each car and four persons for every three-wheeler and one person for two-wheelers. The Ministry of Heavy Industries had sanctioned about 520 Charging Stations/ Infrastructure for Rs.

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Tesla’s years of battery tech investments are becoming a buffer against nickel’s rising costs

Teslarati

Being a key component of its high-performance batteries, Musk stated back in 2020 that any company that can provide Tesla with environmentally-friendly nickel would be granted with a massive contract. Tesla also managed to handle the rising cost of nickel by using batteries that do not use the material at all.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

Cars That Think

He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. The duo created a lithium-ion battery with lower voltage but also lower cost and greater safety. Twenty-five years later, the battery is gaining momentum in the auto industry as a means of reducing the cost of electric cars.

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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This approach of virtually redesigning the tax structure within the auto industry also stands out amongst other countries, which mainly rely on direct subsidies to incentivize EV purchases over internal combustion engine cars. On top of this, EVs have a lower lifetime cost of ownership: another advantage over gas cars.

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CMU study finds that HEVs and PHEVs with small battery packs offer more emissions and oil displacement benefits per dollar spent than large pack PHEVs and BEVs; policy implications

Green Car Congress

To answer this question, we gathered data on (i) the quantity and location of emissions released from tailpipes and from upstream processes to produce and operate vehicles, (ii) the externality costs of damages caused by the release of these emissions, and (iii) estimates of externalities and other costs to the US associated with oil consumption.

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