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Indian market has ‘very functional’ EVs, needs ‘wow products’ to pull customers: Rajesh Jejurikar  | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

They’re not products that will wow the customer. Jejurikar says It has been confirmed that the Finance Minister said there is no GST reduction planned for hybrids and it is not surprising, as the constant imperative from the government has been to “drive EV penetration.” People buy wow products.

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Belfer Center report calls for policymakers to begin taking steps to change policies for funding US transportation infrastructure

Green Car Congress

The US has up to now adhered to the user-fee principle in financing transportation infrastructure—i.e., But fuel tax revenues have not kept pace because the federal government and most states have not increased gasoline tax rates since early 1990s, while inflation has eroded their real buying power. —Huang et al.

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U.S. electric cars are starting to gain mass support

Setec Powerr

According to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Americans will buy a total of 657,000 electric vehicles in 2021. At the UN climate conference in November 2021, six major automakers, including Ford and General Motors, pledged to stop selling new gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040. On May 13 this year, the U.S.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

Charged EVs

CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong recently explained to Charged how the system works, and how the company procures batteries and prepares them for successful second careers. Charged : Let’s start at step one. Charged: If a car gets totaled, you might buy the battery pack on the salvage market? Antoni Tong: Correct.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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million vehicles, and we’re seeing about half of people use it so far. For a while there, we were training-constrained in our progress, and we are, at this point, no longer training-constrained, and so we’re making rapid progress. We’re making sure that we’re being efficient as possible in our training.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Without gasoline, today’s transportation fails.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space.

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