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Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars worth of customer payments: report

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Electric vehicle startup Fisker has reportedly lost track of millions of dollars worth of customer payments as the company attempted to scale the deliveries of its only vehicle available today — the Fisker Ocean. The missing payments reportedly resulted in an internal audit that spanned several months before it was concluded.

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Electric trucks like the Tesla Semi are nearing cost parity with diesel, EU studies show

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The agency also noted that directly electrifying trucks are around twice as energy efficient as renewable hydrogen and about three times as efficient as internal combustion engines running on synthetic e-fuels. . The environmental case is clear and now so is the cost argument. We’ve shown that it is possible.

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Yes, Automakers Stand To Benefit From Installing Public EV Charging Stations

EV Connect

will need as many as 235,000 fast EV chargers to meet demand — up from about 47,000 chargers that are available today. The more that open networks are available, the lower the barrier to entry is for consumers who are on the fence about going electric. Looking at it another way, a recent PWC study forecasted that the U.S.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia EV6

Clean Fleet Report

Kia has been one of the leaders in value-priced EVs over the last few years, but their offerings had been based on vehicles that started life as conventional internal combustion cars. It can take advantage of the most powerful fast chargers available today, and leaves rivals waiting in line at Costco.

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

Green Car Congress

The Ford vehicle is based on the first phase (Mach-I) of work of the DOE-supported Multi-Material Lightweight Vehicles project (Award DE-EE0005574) by Vehma International (an engineering and prototype division within the Cosma International operating unit of Magna) and Ford. million project ($10 million from DOE, $10.3

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Demonstration series hydraulic hybrid transit bus yields fuel economy of 6.9 mpg, 110% better than conventional diesel, 30% better than electric hybrids

Green Car Congress

mpg (34 l/100km) on the industry-standard ADB duty cycle—110% better than conventional diesel buses on the road today and 30% better than the best-in-class electric hybrid buses available today, according to the final report on the project published by the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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