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Tesla 4680 cells, $60/kwh target, fuel-cell trash trucks, Ford batteries: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A venture powers tailpipe-emissions-free fuel-cell trash trucks with landfill waste. This and more, here at Green Car. The DOE reportedly sees $60/kwh as the new goal for EV cost parity with ICE. Ford focuses on making EV batteries a core competency.

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Hyundai’s hydrogen big picture goes way beyond cars and trucks

Baua Electric

By Green Car Reports’ calculations, that’s enough to keep several million fuel-cell-powered light vehicles fueled. But as Hyundai details, not all of that will go to cars, trucks, and buses. But the company is also focusing on a resource-circulation approach, including Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen.

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Bollinger Frunkgate, Nio battery swaps, green-energy trend lines: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Abrupt changes in global energy trends could help green energy, long-term. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. No, Frunkgate isn’t about the controversy among car designers over frunks as bonus space vs. wasted opportunity. And Bollinger teases some very cool cargo features. It’s.

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Sales of Hyundai hydrogen fuel cell Nexo pass 1K unit mark in 2019

Green Car Congress

This marks the first time Hyundai has sold more than 1,000 hydrogen cars annually since 2013. Including 17 units of the Tucson ix, a discontinued first-generation hydrogen model, Hyundai Motor sold 966 hydrogen cars last year. The vehicle shows the exact amount of air purified on the display panel in the car.

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Tesla Model S P85D Top Speed, Gigafactory Update, Nuclear Waste As Energy Source: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we look at the performance of the Tesla Model S P85D electric car, progress on Tesla''s battery-cell "Gigafactory" in Nevada, and how nuclear waste could potentially be used to generate electricity for all of those Tesla plug-in cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. To find out.'

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BMW i8 Roadster, plugs for Porsches, Tesla Supercharger sites, waste for fuel: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

All this and more on Green Car Reports. Today is the last media day of this week's LA auto show, and you can follow all the production-car and concept debuts on our Los Angeles auto show news page.

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Green Cars Part 4- Compressed Air

DIY Electric Car

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. That’s the concept behind the air car , and it looks like a pretty promising technology.