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Tesla Model 3 production, self-driving car pros for electric cars, and battery power grid backups: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Tesla Model 3 production reaches a milestone. Self-driving cars will provide numerous benefits to electric cars. PG&E partners with Tesla to provide power grid backups. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. In the last week of June, Tesla built 5,000 Model 3 electric cars—a.

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Faraday Future unveils FF 91, its first production electric car; deposits open, no price given

Green Car Reports

Faraday Future unveiled its FF 91 electric car on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The battery-powered 1,050-horsepower vehicle is intended to rival (or perhaps best) anything Tesla Motors may have up its sleeve.

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A New Look At The EV Supply Chain As Battery-Powered Cars Hit The Roads En Masse

CleanTechnica EVs

In a series of new reports, researchers at Argonne have tracked and analyzed new investments in electric vehicle production

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CESifo: EVs not the best option for reduction in on-road CO2 in Germany given power mix

Green Car Congress

Electricity production in Germany, 2018. It follows from our comparative calculations for the new Tesla Model 3 and the Mercedes C 220 d that even modern electric cars will hardly be able to contribute to the reduction of German CO 2 emissions in the coming years.

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Audi confirms (again) 3 electric cars on the market by 2020

Green Car Reports

German automakers are beginning to play catch-up with electric vehicles, as Tesla continues to corner the market. Audi has once again reconfirmed its plans to bring three battery-powered electric vehicles to production by the year 2020.

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Volkswagen cites “strong customer reluctance” amid low EV sales

Teslarati

Volkswagen is cutting electric vehicle production at its Emden plant in northwest Germany. And as per recent comments from the veteran automaker, the adjustment is partly due to “strong customer reluctance,” which is leading to lower-than-expected electric car sales. With the extensively revised ID.3

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Meet the cute, capable and affordable Renault 5 E-Tech. Will this reborn icon make Europe relevant in the electric car era?

EV Central

Once introduced, the Renault 5 will be followed by two more retro recreations that include production cars based on the Renault4Ever concept and the even cheaper EV based on the recently revealed Renault Twingo concept that could undercut even the cheapest BYD EV. 2025 Renault 5 e-motor and battery pack. 2025 Renault 5.