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Panasonic unveils battery prototype with 5 times storage capacity 

Electric Vehicles India

Panasonic was Tesla’s exclusive battery supplier but it has again re-signed the agreement with Tesla. Tesla’s main goal is to remove the cobalt completely from the cells and Chinese battery maker CATL is already supplying cobalt-free batteries to Tesla for its Model 3.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

It has now re-established it as an electrified sub-brand of GMC. But it’s the EV we’re most interested because it will likely use the 800V electrical architecture from the Kia EV6 and EV9. Since 2020 Toyota and mining giant BHP have been testing a LandCruiser 70-Series converted to electricity by Tembo e-LV locally.

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ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The company is currently focusing on plans to plug the gap between the current market and a future when electric cars hit the mainstream, by converting Lotus Elises and Volkswagen (VW) Golfs to electric power. Converting Lotuses is expensive, he says, but you have to start somewhere. The longer term plan is to import electric cars.

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Road Test: 2023 Polestar 2 Dual Motor Performance Plus

Clean Fleet Report

Polestar and Volvo were acquired by Geeley, a Chinese automobile company, in 2010. Both measurements are best used to compare EVs as the actual miles you will get from a kWh of battery varies greatly based on the speed you’re traveling, the temperature and the style of driving. The new kid on the block Who/What Is Polestar?

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. BMW M cars – they’re coming with hybrid drivetrains. Byton M-Byte – Chinese start-ups power play is technology, underpinned by an enormous 48-inch screen that sprawls across the dash.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

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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London adding 51 more all-electric buses to operating fleet

Green Car Congress

When fully converted, the electric buses on routes 507 and 521 will deliver a reduction of 408 tonnes of CO 2 and 10 tonnes of NO x per year, when compared to single-deck diesel buses. The new buses will join two existing electric buses, manufactured by Chinese company BYD, on the Go Ahead-operated commuter routes in central London.

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