Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a scalable, low-cost method to improve the joining of materials in solid-state batteries, resolving one of the big challenges in the commercial development of safe, long-lived energy storage systems. Solid-state batteries incorporate a safer, fast-charging architecture featuring a solid-state electrolyte versus the liquid electrolytes in today’s lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Subaru reveals its electric car, and Kia teases the future of electric SUVs from the brand a bit more. Geely shows its Tesla Semi rival. And could a new method work for keeping EV charging cables cool? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The first mass-production electric vehicle from Subaru took a bow last night in prototype form. While the.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

e. Proterra announced an expansion of its partnership with Lightning eMotors to power their Class 4 and Class 5 electric commercial vehicles with Proterra’s battery technology. Under a new multi-year supply agreement, Proterra contracted to supply battery systems totaling more than 900 megawatt hours in battery storage capacity to Lightning eMotors to power up to 10,000 electric commercial vehicles between 2022 and 2025.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The commercial-vehicle division of Chinese automaker recently unveiled a potential Tesla Semi rival due to start production in 2024. The Farizon Auto Homtruck concept previews a production semi truck that can accommodate battery-electric and range-extended powertrains, according to a Farizon Auto press release. Farizon didn't discuss technical.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and TotalEnergies signed an agreement on their joint commitment to the de-carbonization of the road freight in the European Union. The partners will collaborate in the development of ecosystems for heavy-duty trucks running on hydrogen, with the intent to demonstrate the attractiveness and effectiveness of trucking powered by clean hydrogen and the ambition to play a lead role in kickstarting the rollout of hydrogen infrastructure for transportation.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ford and Purdue University researchers have developed a new charging cable the automaker claims could allow future EVs to recharge in as little time as a gasoline fill-up. The patent-pending design uses a new cooling method that harnesses the phase change of coolant from liquid to vapor, Ford said in a press release. Liquid-cooled charging cables.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Kia on Thursday released more teaser images of its Concept EV9, which is scheduled for a full reveal November 17 at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show. No details have been confirmed, but the teaser images show more of the boxy SUV shape hinted at in an initial teaser released earlier this week. Interior views also show a steering yoke and large.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) in Ohio are collaborating to test intelligent tire sensors and prototype tires on SARTA’s fleet of diesel and hydrogen fuel cell-powered (HFC) buses. The intelligent tires leverage Goodyear’s TPMS Plus on-vehicle sensors to send real-time data on tire conditions to the Goodyear SightLine mobility cloud.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Hertz is doing for Tesla what many Tesla supporters have been divided about Tesla doing for itself — advertising and giving consumers factual information about EVs in general. I’ve noticed that some in the Tesla community feel that Tesla should have some sort of educational advertising campaign that would dispel the fear, uncertainty, and doubt […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At COP26 in Glasgow, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the US Aviation Climate Action Plan , published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which sets out to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the US aviation sector by 2050. The document focuses on technologies that could substantially reduce the emissions from the commercial fleet of aircraft.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla has started pushing a new software update to its fleet today that adds waypoints to its navigation system – something that was highly requested by owners. more… The post Tesla releases new software update that finally adds waypoints to navigation appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Technology supplier Freudenberg is starting the research project “HyFleet” together with ZF Friedrichshafen and FlixBus. The partners aim to develop a high-performance fuel cell system by 2024 to completely replace conventional diesel drives. They will also be examining the hybridization of electric powertrains with fuel cells and batteries. Anyone traveling by long-distance coach instead of using a car already reduces CO 2 emissions by 6.6 kilograms on a 400-kilometer (249-mile) trip.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla has added Waypoints to improve the in-car navigation experience with Software Update 2021.40.5. Waypoints have been long requested by many Tesla owners, and the automaker has finally come through after Elon Musk confirmed they would be added in September 2020. Tesla does not refer to them as “Waypoints,” however. Instead, the 2021.40.5 Software Update notes call the feature “Add Stop,” an acceptable alternative. “Add a new stop to your route by tapping the 

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The COP26 pledge by governments, automakers and others to sell only zero-emissions cars and vans from 2035 in leading markets and by 2040 elsewhere ( earlier post ) needs to be backed up with actual targets set down in law, green NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) said. With China, the US, Germany and France absent from the declaration, it will take more than a non-binding commitment to make the shift, T&E commented.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

(The following article was sent to us by a concerned Japanese resident who wishes to remain anonymous.). Remember the first electric Toyota RAV4? Probably not. The early attempt at an EV barely had a range of 100 miles and Toyota sold very few of them. Back in 2010, Toyota and Tesla jointly worked on a second RAV4 EV project and Toyota had invested $50 million in Tesla, which it sold in 2017 (and which would now be worth $20 billion had they not sold it). more… The post How Toyota sneakily

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, has become the first company to manufacture silicon-dominant anode XFC cell technologies, ready for electric vehicles, on a production line. In a crucial step towards production at scale of technologies that will decrease electric vehicle charging times by half, A-Series Samples of XFC pouch cells have been produced by StoreDot’s manufacturing partner EVE Energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Menlo Park is upgrading its police fleet and has been approved by the city council to purchase three new Tesla Model Y vehicles for a pilot program as well as six Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles, The Almanac reports. The city is also getting a Chevy Bolt for code enforcement. The purchase is part of the […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ricardo has received UK Government funding to optimize in-car thermal and energy management systems to improve electric vehicle range and battery performance. This technology innovation should help accelerate consumer adoption of battery electric vehicles, the company said. Partnering with Jaguar Land Rover and using a Jaguar I-PACE as a demonstrator vehicle, Ricardo engineers in the TOBEV (Thermally Optimized Battery Electric Vehicle) project will look holistically at whole vehicle thermal mana

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla announced that it reached a new milestone with its Supercharger network: it now has over 30,000 fast-chargers around the world. more… The post Tesla Supercharger network reaches new milestone: 30,000 chargers worldwide appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Twenty airline members of the World Economic Forum’s Target True Zero initiative committed to utilizing new technologies, such as electric, hydrogen and hybrid aircraft, to address the challenge of climate change. The development and delivery of novel propulsion technologies—powered by sustainable energy sources—were highlighted as key towards helping the aviation industry minimize its environmental impact.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla has officially displaced Mercedes-Benz as the third-most-popular luxury automotive brand in the United States, quickly approaching BMW and Lexus, which took first and second place, respectively. The data comes from Automotive News , which reported the story earlier this week. According to the report, Mercedes-Benz accumulated 213,708 vehicle registrations through Q3 2021, a hefty figure for the German automaker which has been battling supply chain bottlenecks and parts shortages through m

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After months of teasing, Subaru has now fully unveiled its first all-electric car, the Solterra, an electric SUV with a range of about 250 miles. more… The post Subaru unveils Solterra: Electric SUV with a range of ~250 miles appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Crew Dragon Endurance has delivered four Crew-3 NASA and ESA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) half an hour ahead of schedule, completing the launch and ascent portion of SpaceX’s fifth astronaut launch in 18 months. Following a flawless 9:03pm EST liftoff, Falcon 9 booster landing, and orbital insertion on Wednesday, November 10th, Crew Dragon has performed several autonomous Draco thruster burns to raise its orbit and rendezvous with the ISS.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

My fellow writers have been doing something between name-calling and an ad-hominem attack on the German environmental groups that oppose Tesla's activities. If we want to actually climb higher up the pyramid, we need to look at what the environmental groups are actually arguing.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin – whose state’s banner industry, coal mining, has been largely unionized and been central to the US labor movement since soon after its inception – today called the proposed $4,500 union-made EV tax credit “wrong” and “not American.” The $4,500 union-made EV credit is a section of the proposed $12,500 federal EV tax credit , part of the pending Build Back Better act. more… The post Sen.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For decades, solar-powered vehicles have been a cool challenge for university teams and backyard tinkerers, and occasionally the subject of slapstick comedy. But for serious use as a transportation machine? No way! Recent moves in the industry to make serious solar cars are now getting to the point where even mainstream news sources are picking […].

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla has raised the price of the Model Y by $1,000 in the United States once more. The Tesla Model Y Long Range is now $58,990 before options, while the Performance variant is $63,990 before options. . Before the recent price increase, the Tesla Model Y Long Range was priced at $57,990 before options, while the Performance variant was priced at $62,990 before options.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Commercial EV manufacturer Xos, Inc just announced its second series of proprietary battery systems. The Lyra Series will be integrated into commercial vehicles on Xos’ proprietary X-Platform chassis and will debut in two sizes that can be mixed and matched to suit the range needs of commercial fleet customers. more… The post Xos’ modular Lyra battery series can give commercial EVs up to 500 miles of range appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In a piece of news that hit all channels a couple of days ago, Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor, Minister for Emissions Reduction, were interviewed while filling up a Toyota with grey hydrogen. What made this so cringeworthy was that the headlines and comments were saying that Morrison had changed his tune […].

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Tesla’s Elon Musk has provided a tentative release date for FSD Beta 10.5, particularly for drivers that have earned a Safety Score of 98. The CEO also shared some insights about why FSD Beta has not been formally launched in Canada as of yet. According to Musk, FSD Beta 10.5 would likely be released in about ten days, or around November 21. This falls in line with Tesla’s FSD Beta release schedule, as V10.4 was rolled out to members of the program just this past weekend.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The KBO Ranger electric cargo bike has just launched as the company’s first utility e-bike. more… The post This newly launched electric cargo bike combines a big battery with small wheels for tight spaces appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

SpaceX is scheduled to attempt Falcon 9’s next East Coast Starlink launch and a record-breaking Starship static fire less than eight hours apart on Friday, November 12th. Barring delays or operational constraints, both of which are fairly likely, that Starship static fire and Starlink launch could technically happen just an hour or two apart. After nearly two weeks of mysterious delays, Starship S20 – SpaceX’s first orbital-class prototype – could easily run into more iss

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is focused on empowering hispanics and bringing more of them into STEM, including through the 2021 SHPE National Convention in Orlando, Florida. Interestingly, Tesla has a booth and is actively looking for engineers at this week’s national convention (November 10–14). The theme for the convention is “The Most Magical Time” and […].

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The COP26, aka the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021 , is under way in Glasgow. Here’s Electrek ‘s daily roundup of the key happenings at the world’s most important summit ever. more… The post COP26 Daily Briefing: 3 big things that happened on November 11 appeared first on Electrek.

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