Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

While nickel isn’t [as expensive as] cobalt, nickel isn’t as cheap as some others. Mark Gresser: I’ve heard people refer to nickel as “the next cobalt” because, as everyone else increases the nickel content in batteries, it stands to reason that the cost of nickel is going to increase somewhat.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Upfront costs are steadily approaching parity with legacy vehicles, purchase incentives are available, and new programs at the levels of federal (IRA, BIL), state (California’s ACT and ACF) and local (city zero-emission zones) government are driving (some would say “coercing”) companies to move forward quickly.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This is sometimes referred to as “getting the flywheel going”—that is, operating on a large enough scale for the benefits to consumers from network effects to kick in. Amazon would announce that from now on, while users could continue to pay by credit card for purchases, they could also use a digital currency called amazons. (I

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 19, 2021

The provision requires that a new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle purchased by the taxpayer has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $80,000 or less. If the regulation refers to vehicle “lines” — then as long as any version of a model, for example, Lucid Air, Tesla Model S, GMC Hummer EV, etc.,

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Teslarati

AUGUST 16, 2021

Option A refers to a limited portion of the HLS program focused on funding the development of crewed Moon landers and the completion of two crucial flight tests – one uncrewed and one with NASA astronauts aboard. The corollaries between Commercial Crew and HLS are clear and unsurprising. The fixed-price contract will cost NASA $2.9B

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. Tenor refers to the length of the loan; one of the outcomes of the crisis was a commitment by many banks to stop issuing loans with tenors that were significantly longer than their typical deposits.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. This method of charging is much slower and much more unsafe than purchasing a purpose built EV charger. Almost all EV chargers on sale today in the UK are “Type 2” Type 2 refers to the type of plug that the charger uses. We want to save money.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki. It’s only sand.”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. Department of Energy has purchased an F3DM to take the battery apart. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. All times are ET.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Tesla’s now-made-in-China Model 3 won the local crown with 140k sales, but the real surprise was the teeny and dirt-cheap WHGMiEV (see the linked story to decipher the acronym), launched only mid-year and reaching 120k, the second Chinese model to score 6 digits in a year. And two months into 2021 it has already scored another 57k sales!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

That agreement calls for a program that will cover nearly 90 percent of the region’s greenhouse gas emissions when it is fully implemented (commonly referred to as an economy-wide program). If they don’t have enough allowances to cover their emissions they must purchase more or face a penalty.

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