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2023 Los Angeles Auto Show Recap -- Stepping in the Right Direction

The Truth About Cars

It was gloomy when I landed in Los Angeles last week. I am flirting with a cliché here, I know, but the weather seemed to be a metaphor for how the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show media day drove perception of the automotive industry's health. Then, on Thursday, the sun came out. Then, on Thursday, the sun came out.

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Hyundai is going all in on hydrogen, and relying on food waste to make that happen

Baua Electric

Source: Hyundai Kia-owner Hyundai certainly isn’t in a big rush to go carbon neutral. Clean hydrogen should be for everyone, powering everything, and available everywhere,” Jay Chang, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company, said in a statement. It has set its target as the far-away date of 2050.

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CALSTART: zero-emission trucks, buses, off-road equipment on track for 78% rise in models in 2020, doubling by 2023

Green Car Congress

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

The next-generation version of this car, the Geo Metro XFi , was the final new production car available in the United States with under 50 horses , using a fuel-injected version of the same Suzuki three-banger. The Sprint was nowhere near the cheapest new car Americans could buy in 1987. Crushes the Hyundai Excel. per gallon.

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News: 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Is an EV Genesis, the luxury division of Hyundai Motor Group, began this past week producing its first model in the United States at the sprawling HMG factory in Montgomery, Alabama. Genesis showed a pre-production 2023 Electrified GV70 at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show. kWh lithium-ion battery.

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World’s first hydrogen station for commercial trucks opens – is it too late?

Baua Electric

As for customers, the company says there are 30 Hyundai Xcient semi trucks using the fueling station currently, as well as a number of Nikola hydrogen fuel-cell-powered trucks. RUSS MITCHELL, AOL/Los Angeles TIMES. Take the company’s hydrogen production process as an example.