Tue.Dec 18, 2018

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NIO launches ES6 electric SUV starting at $52K and 317-mile range

Green Car Congress

NIO Inc. officially launched the NIO ES6 on December 15, 2018 during the annual NIO Day celebration in Shanghai. The electric SUV starts at a pre-subsidy price of 358,000 RMB (US$52,000), and is available now for public pre-order via the NIO app, with delivery to start in June 2019. The NIO ES6 features dual motors in conjunction with an intelligent electric all-wheel-drive system delivering output power of up to 400 kW (544 hp), peak torque of 725 N·m and 0-100 km/h acceleration in as li

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EVgo launches first public 350-kw fast charger

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The desert is full of apparitions. The latest is a high-powered DC fast charger for electric cars that don't yet exist. This apparition is an EVgo charging station in Baker, California, the "Gateway to Death Valley" on Interstate 40, halfway between L.A. and Las Vegas, installed last week. DON'T MISS: Porsche already has a prototype that will.

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Please let me know which companies are willing to provide insurance for an EV converted car, in the greater Toronto area.

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Former Porsche CEO backing company with TDI-like emissions claim

Green Car Reports

Former Porsche AG CEO Wendelin Wiedeking, who waged a failed takeover of the Volkswagen Group ten years ago, is reportedly one of the backers of a new venture that, at face value, is making claims that sound very much like those made of what was then the favored tech for VW and Audi: TDI diesel. The idea, belonging to a company called MWI (Micro.

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

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£23m van scrappage scheme announced ahead of Ultra Low Emission Zone introduction

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Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has announced a £23m scrappage scheme for the city’s most polluting vans ahead of the introduction of the permanent Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) on 8 April 2019.

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Independent group aims to be for emissions what NCAP or IIHS is for crash safety

Green Car Reports

A newly formed organization called Allow Independent Road-testing (AIR) wants to make impartial emissions ratings available to vehicle shoppers. Using a simple rating from A (best) to H (worst), they would tell you, at a quick glance, how much you’re endangering the health of your family with tailpipe pollutants. Although the idea may seem.

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Will climate talks bring real progress? Take our Twitter poll

Green Car Reports

Last weekend, climate talks in Poland wrapped up by scraping a length of thorns off the Paris-agreement rose stem. Global leaders de-thorned issues as sharp as how nations will measure progress toward reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, whether planting more forests should count, for example, how countries will report on progress, and how those.

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Saab is back (sort of) and focussed on family car sharing

Green Cars News

You certainly can’t accuse new car company NEVS of lacking ambition

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Researchers find product-specific active sites on copper catalysts for CO2 reduction

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) have shown that recycling carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels can be economical and efficient using a single copper catalyst. The work appears in the journal Nature Catalysis. … by reducing mixtures of 13 CO and 12 CO 2 , we show that oxide-derived Cu catalysts have three different types of active sites for C–C coupled products, one

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Electric cars "not going to work," Trump says of GM's plan

Green Car Reports

In an interview with Fox News last week, President Trump revealed his inner thoughts about electric cars—not that many had any doubts. "All-electric is not going to work," he said, referring to General Motors' stated goal to transition to "a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion." The company announced last year that.

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

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Xtalic enters EV market with materials that improve battery charger connector wear by up to 40 times

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Xtalic Corporation , a leader in providing nano-scale metal alloys and coatings, has entered the electric vehicle market with products that extend the life of connectors in electric battery chargers by up to 40 times. Founded by the head of the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Xtalic has commercialized products with 30 leading electronics firms and continues to leverage its proprietary toolkit to design and to patent stable nanostructur

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Trump on electric cars, tailpipe tests, tech to clean up engines: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

EVgo launches its first ultra-fast charger in the desert. Microwave ignition claims to clean up internal combustion. And a group proposes publishing its own independent emissions tests. All this and more on Green Car Reports. "All-electric is not going to work," President Trump said in an interview with Fox News, in lashing out against GM for.

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