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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

Green Car Congress

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. This rollout is just the beginning of what is expected to be thousands of Amazon’s custom electric delivery vehicles in more than 100 cities by the end of this year and 100,000 across the US by 2030.

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California leads in home EV charger installation, while NYC is last

Green Car Reports

While most American drivers rely on home charging for EVs, not all areas with large EV fleets also have large numbers of home chargers, according to a new study from home improvement service Porch. Using real estate listings and EV registrations, the study found that California leads the way. Riverside, California, was the top metro area for home.

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Umicore to build cathode active material plant in Canada

Green Car Congress

Umicore plans to construct a manufacturing facility for cathode active battery materials (CAM) and their precursor materials (pCAM) in Ontario, Canada. For Umicore this investment represents the final step in establishing a global production presence with battery material value chains that are regionally fully integrated to support its customers in their fast transformation towards sustainable electric mobility.

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Review: Mercedes Vision EQXX concept escapes the EV weight spiral

Green Car Reports

Making the Vision EQXX a benchmark for EV efficiency meant avoiding a downward spiral. It’s one of the main reasons Mercedes-Benz stuck to the idea of an air-cooled battery Vision EQXX concept, and listening to project manager Malte Sievers, it’s one of the key decision points in the project that helped allow it to outperform its.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Researchers say cubic boron arsenide best semiconductor material yet found

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Silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are far from ideal. Athough silicon lets electrons whizz through its structure easily, it is much less accommodating to “holes”—electrons’ positively charged counterparts—and harnessing both is important for some kinds of chips. Furthermore, silicon is not very good at conducting heat, which is why overheating issues and expensive cooling systems are common in computers.

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Beijing to transform city's major gas stations into charging and battery swap stations

CN EV Post

Beijing aims to have 700,000 charging piles and 310 battery swap stations by 2025 in the city. The post Beijing to transform city's major gas stations into charging and battery swap stations appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Study: solid state batteries can further boost climate benefits of EVs

Electric Cars Report

Solid state batteries can reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by almost two-fifths – further increasing EVs’ advantage over fossil fuel vehicles. That’s according to research commissioned by Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro, a company specialised in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Sustainable Electric Car That Cleans The Air While Driving — Zem

CleanTechnica EVs

TU Eindhoven students develop passenger car that captures more CO? than it emits while driving TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO?) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through a special filter. By storing the captured CO?

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Elon Musk shares updates about Tesla’s FSD Beta 10.13

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared new updates about the latest version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta 10.13. He responded to Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley’s John Stringer who asked if there was a date as to when FSD Beta 10.13 would be. Elon Musk replied that maybe at the end of this week. He added that the team is working hard about it. John then asked Elon how he felt about the update. “Should be a major improvement with respect to complex left turns.” Should be a major i

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Recycling Lead-Acid Batteries Is Easy. Why Is Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries Hard?

CleanTechnica EVs

By James Morton Turner, an environmental studies professor at Wellesley College and author of the forthcoming book "Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future." He published the lead op-ed in the journal Science’s special climate change issue last month (June 24, 2022).

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Opinion: Tesla is working hard to make ‘fantasy’ into reality

Teslarati

Tesla is working hard to make what Reuters called a fantasy into a reality. In reality, Tesla has already achieved the impossible several times. Just after the Tesla Q2 2022 earnings call last Wednesday wrapped up, Reuters published this article about Tesla’s investors betting on “recovery and fantasy.” The article said that Tesla is losing some of its specialness yet its valuation still projects that specialness.

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Loneliness of the Long-Distance Tesla Uber Driver

CleanTechnica EVs

Lack of charging infrastructure can give a Tesla Uber driver the blues. By Adam Nelson, as told to David Waterworth For over 6 years, I have provided transportation services for Uber, Didi, Ola, and my own business, while accepting various other rideshare bookings. Last year, I purchased a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range. I have […].

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Video: SpaceX Falcon 9 over the moon

Teslarati

During SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink mission on July 22, SpaceX captured an incredible video of the rocket flying over the moon. Perhaps it’s time to rewrite that old bedtime story. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday and as it was happening, the rocket lept over the moon. The view was incredible and you can watch the video SpaceX shared below.

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Baby Steps for EV Chargers in Australia

CleanTechnica EVs

Slowly and with baby steps, Australia’s charging network is being built out. As well as large networks of high-speed chargers being built by state governments, along the coastal highways circling this vast country, motoring associations and commercial providers are ramping up their provisions. (It must be noted that these commercial ventures are also in part […].

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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It’s Official: Electric Vehicles Have Gone Mainstream in California

EV Adoption

Well ahead of every other US state, California has now surpassed the magic 16% share of new light passenger vehicle being electric, and has “crossed the chasm” into the early majority phase of the widely-accepted technology adoption curve (Rogers Diffusion of Innovation). . Chart by Laura McDonald, EVAdoption. While in Q1 2022 the US overall reached 6.24% when combining the sales share of both BEVs and PHEVs, California was nearly three times higher at 18.35%.

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Is “Recall” Really The Right Word In The Era Of Auto Over-The-Air Updates?

CleanTechnica EVs

Nowadays it seems the automotive industry cannot do without quick and flexible connected updates for consumer safety, product maintenance, and enhancing functions.

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Volunteers for Sierra Club EV Shopper Study

EV Club of CT

Volunteers Needed For Sierra Club Rev Up EV Shopper Study, Round 3 The Sierra Club is fielding a third round of its Rev Up EV Shopper Study and is asking for help from the EV. Read more.

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Charging Up to Drive Cheaper & Cleaner Just Got A Lot Easier in Virginia

CleanTechnica EVs

Amid record high gas prices and record high climate-changed temperatures, there’s a sliver of good news this week.

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Volkswagen Presents Power Storage Container With Reused Batteries

InsideEVs

It consists of battery modules from ID.3 and ID.4 models and stores 570 kWh of energy.

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Tesla Gets Its Own Lane At Mexican Border Crossing

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla now has a dedicated lane at the border between the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon and the US state of Texas.

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Watch Tesla Model S Plaid Race Shelby GT500 And Charger Hellcat

InsideEVs

It's an epic gas versus electric battle. Can the Mustang and Charger even compete?

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This impressive 1,500W DIY solar powered car-replacing e-bike does kid carpool & grocery runs

Electrek

Last month we featured an awesome DIY solar cargo trailer that an Electrek reader built for his electric bike. Just in case you needed any more proof that our readers are some of the handiest and most clever eco-DIYers on the planet, we’ve got another impressive solar powered electric bike to show you. This time it does double duty a school drop-off vehicle for the kids and a grocery getter. more….

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UK Government Publication Debunks EV Myths

CleanTechnica EVs

By Charles Morris, EVANNEX.

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BYD Enters Japanese Passenger Electric Car Market

InsideEVs

Three first models were announced: Atto 3, Dolphin and Seal.

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Charge2Go, Opening Up The Australia EV Charging Market

CleanTechnica EVs

By Hung Phan, Co-Founder, CTO, Charge2Go.

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Rivian R1T Electric Pickup Truck Top Speed Test

InsideEVs

How fast can an electric pickup truck go?

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MG4 expected here in 2023 with sophisticated new-gen EV tech

EV Central

The first of a new-generation of sophisticated MG electric vehicles appears set for Australian launch in 2023. Dubbed the MG4 in Europe and Mulan in China, the compact hatchback is currently undergoing final validation testing ahead of its international launch. The five-door five-seat MG4 is based on the Modular Scalable Platform (MSP) developed by the Chinese-owned British-born brand’s parent SAIC. 2023 MG4 compact hatchback.

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