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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

Baua Electric

In India, it’s an auto rickshaw. For power, we’ve got a rear axle-mounted 1,000W motor supplied by a 48V battery. It’s not going to be an off-roader, but I think that sounds like a bad enough idea that no one was planning on hitting up their local ATV trails anyway. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

Baua Electric

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Get started here.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. By the 1950s, the grid was moving electricity across time zones and national borders, tying in diverse sources of supply and demand.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. CEOs of major auto companies were all saying by 2020 or 2021 or 2022, roughly. And it’s really cheap. Brooks: Lots of predictions.

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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

Baua Electric

Pyrolysis process used to extract recyclable material from Continental tires Restarting the loop with carbon black That led to an evaluation of the global supply chain for carbon black and whether the companies could get more out of pyrolysis, which is the process of heating them without oxygen to recover compounds.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Toyota Hilux hybrid Toyota Pickup EV is concept that shows Toyota’s idea of a battery electric ute Toyota has long been hinting at an EV version of the top-selling Hilux for years – with promises of at least 15 battery electric Toyotas due by 2030 – but it appears a hybrid version is more likely, at least initially.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far.

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