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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. Still, it was a hit among attending media, based on conversations I had.

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EV News keeps on coming

Electric Auto Association

Hyundai, Nissan, Fisker, Canoo, Lucid, and more…. The Hyundai Seven. Korean EVs LA glamour The Kia EV6 attracted a whole lot of attention at the Los Angeles Auto Show for its performance, and looks. Both Kia and Hyundai unveiled large SUV concept vehicles with noteworthy features at the show. Nissan concept car.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Los Alamos National Laboratory. El Centro, Calif. WWTP, Antioch, Calif.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Doubts PHEVs have environmental benefits.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hyundai will in months offer 2 models that will leap frog toyota and honda by years - it will be based on a lithium POLYMER battery thats lighter, cheaper, and maintains charge many times longer than NiCad batteries and all at a price half that of Volt. Then they are driving by electric car conversions every day and not seeing them.

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