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Volvo Trucks had 42% market share of heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe in 2021

Green Car Congress

New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. In 2021 the company took orders, including letters of intent to buy, for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. The international trucking industry is undergoing a transformation towards more sustainable transport as sales of heavy battery electric trucks are starting to pick up, with Europe in the lead.

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Nissan and Infiniti announce US-built EVs due in 2025

Green Car Reports

Nissan is planning to build two fully electric vehicles at its Canton, Mississippi plant, starting in 2025, the company revealed Thursday. One will be a Nissan-brand vehicle, the other the first U.S.-market electric vehicle for Infiniti. The two models were shown briefly in concept form, obscured, but enough to see that the Nissan concept might be.

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Hampleton Partners: Autotech M&A remains constant, driven by EVs and charging

Green Car Congress

The latest Autotech & Mobility M&A Market Report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, shows that the appetite for Autotech & Mobility deals has remained consistent despite the impact of COVID disruption, the global semiconductor shortage and supply chain issues. Hampleton recorded 46 deals in the second half of 2021 and a total of 97 across the whole year, in line with previous years.

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2023 Mercedes AMG EQE electric sedan puts the priority on performance

Green Car Reports

The 2023 Mercedes-AMG EQE sedan was unveiled Tuesday as the second volume-produced all-electric model from Mercedes-Benz's AMG performance division. AMG already launched a sportier version of the Mercedes-Benz EQS, so now it's moving on to the smaller EQE sedan, which is due this spring as a 2023 model. The AMG version, formally titled.

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

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

Green Car Congress

The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of the US’ domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. ( Earlier post.). There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a process in which hot fluids are pumped up from deep underground and the heat is then converted to electricity.

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2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrid goes 26 miles on a charge, gets 23 mpg on gasoline

Green Car Reports

Official EPA electric range and efficiency ratings for the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrid are in, and they come close to Jeep's estimates. The plug-in hybrid SUV gets an EPA-rated 26 miles of electric range from its 17-kwh battery pack, with an efficiency rating of 56 MPGe combined. Jeep previously said it was targeting 25 miles of.

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

Cars That Think

It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will unlock the true potential of AI. Synthetic data is generated instead of collected, and the consultancy company Gartner has estimated that 60 percent of data used to train AI systems will be synthetic.

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Hiroshima researchers improve kinetics of ammonia synthesis by chemical looping of lithium hydride; targeting small-scale NH3 production

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Hiroshima University have greatly improved the performance of ammonia (NH 3 ) synthesis via the chemical looping process of lithium hydride by using a lithium oxide (Li 2 O) scaffold to improve the reaction kinetics. In a paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C , the Hiroshima team reports that with the scaffold, the reaction of LiH and N 2 is completed within 20 minutes—a significantly shorter time than the conventional reaction time of more than 1,000 minute

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Elon Musk reiterates Tesla’s local roots after Biden says he wants to make “Buy American” a reality

Teslarati

US President Joe Biden may have already proven that he can say the word “Tesla” in public, but he may still need some prodding when it comes to acknowledging that the Texas-based EV maker is a true-blue American company. This was something that Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted recently when he responded to the US President’s EV-related post on Twitter.

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Audi-FAW NEV building new EV plant in China; 150k cars annually

Green Car Congress

The Audi-FAW NEV Company Ltd., a company jointly founded by Audi and its partner FAW, is is set to begin construction on a new plant in China for fully electric Audi models using the Premium Platform Electric (PPE). On an area of approximately 150 hectares, a highly modern plant for fully electric Audi models will be constructed by the end of 2024. A completely new IT architecture will be put into place to network all site processes.

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

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

Cars That Think

In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. Modern laptops are notoriously difficult ( and sometimes impossible ) to repair, a problem Luna’s designers address by reducing the number of screws to four and avoiding permanent adhesives. Instead, many components lock into place.

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Jaguar Land Rover partners with NVIDIA for next-gen automated driving and AI-enabled services

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover has formed a multi-year strategic partnership with NVIDIA to develop jointly and to deliver next-generation automated driving systems plus AI-enabled services and experiences for its customers. Starting in 2025, all new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will be built on the NVIDIA DRIVE software-defined platform, delivering a wide spectrum of active safety, automated driving and parking systems as well as driver assistance systems.

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Redwood Materials begins collecting and recycling EV batteries from Volvo and Ford in California

Electrek

Redwood Materials, a startup launched by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, announced that it is beginning to collect and recycle EV battery packs from Volvo and Ford in California. more… The post Redwood Materials begins collecting and recycling EV batteries from Volvo and Ford in California appeared first on Electrek.

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Graphex Group to expand graphite processing in China to 40k tonnes/year, up from 10k, to meet EV battery needs

Green Car Congress

Graphex Group has entered into an exclusive non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Municipal Government of Mashan District, Jixi City, Heilongjiang, China with the intention of expanding its graphite processing and production capacity within the Jixi Mashan Graphite Industrial Park. Graphex currently produces 10,000 metric tons per annum (TPA) of high-purity spherical graphite (SG) at its existing facilities in Jixi.

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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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Where The EVs are – Jan 2022 Edition

EV Club of CT

Barry Kresch 41% of CT EVs in Fairfield County Hartford and New Haven Counties make up the bulk of the rest. When filtered for BEVs, there is even more of a Fairfield County skew. %. Read more.

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Neste and ITOCHU expand partnership to grow the availability of sustainable aviation fuel in Japan

Green Car Congress

Neste and ITOCHU Corporation have expanded their partnership to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Japan. In the expanded partnership, ITOCHU acts as the branded distributor of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Japan making Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel available first at the two largest Japanese international airports: Tokyo Haneda and Narita.

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Why Australia’s largest coal-fired plant will close seven years early

Electrek

Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant will close seven years earlier than originally planned. That’s because its operator, Origin Energy, says it’s unable to compete with renewables. more… The post Why Australia’s largest coal-fired plant will close seven years early appeared first on Electrek.

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SpaceX to close out February with two more Starlink launches

Teslarati

Continuing the company’s busiest planned year yet, SpaceX has dispatched a drone ship for the first of two more Falcon 9 Starlink launches scheduled before the end of the month. While there were signs a few weeks ago that SpaceX had as many as four Starlink launches planned this month, that appears to have shrunk to three. In theory, SpaceX could have finished refurbishing both of its East Coast launch pads – LC-40 and LC-39A – earlier this week after supporting launches on Jan

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Tesla launches new automatic electric trunk for Model 3, upgrade available at official service centers

Electrek

Tesla has launched a new automatic electric trunk for Model 3 as an aftermarket offered directly at service centers. The product is currently only available in China, but like most things Tesla these days, it starts in China and then it is expected to expand to other markets. more… The post Tesla launches new automatic electric trunk for Model 3, upgrade available at official service centers appeared first on Electrek.

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TSLA analyst thinks postponing $25k car is a potential risk to Tesla’s yearly sales growth

Teslarati

Bernstein analyst Tony Sacconaghi believes Tesla’s decision to not work on its $25,000 car now is a potential risk, specifically to its sales growth in the future. . At the Q4 and Full Year 2021 earnings call, Elon Musk said that Tesla was not “currently” working on the $25,000 car. He noted that asking about the $25k car’s progress was the wrong question, suggesting that the question now was about autonomy. “Well, we’re not currently working on the–on a

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Dozens of new Tesla Model Ys spotted being prepped for deliveries at Gigafactory Texas

Electrek

Dozens of new Tesla Model Y vehicles have been spotted apparently being prepped for deliveries at Gigafactory Texas. It looks like the deliveries of Tesla’s first structural battery pack vehicles are imminent. more… The post Dozens of new Tesla Model Ys spotted being prepped for deliveries at Gigafactory Texas appeared first on Electrek.

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European astronauts want their own spacecraft after decades of reliance on Russia, NASA, SpaceX

Teslarati

On February 16th, the European Space Agency (ESA) held the European Space Summit in Toulouse, France, offering European Space Agency leaders and European Union (EU) member states an opportunity to discuss the present and future of European spaceflight. The central idea circulating the summit was evident: Europe wants to reassert itself as a global leader in space exploration.

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The EV Drivers of Tomorrow — Not Quite George Jetson

CleanTechnica EVs

For a fresh view of the emerging electric vehicle world in Australia, I invited the teenage children of my neighbours for a drive in our Tesla Model 3 SR + as well as a chat about it. Marcus, 15, and Stella, 16, will soon be going through that rite of passage of getting a driver’s […].

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Tesla says SEC is withholding a $40M shareholder payout from 2018 ‘Funding Secured’ settlement

Teslarati

Tesla says that the Securities and Exchange Commission has failed to distribute $40 million to company shareholders because its CEO Elon Musk is an “outspoken critic of the government,” making him a target. The payout was part of the 2018 settlement Tesla agreed on with the SEC after a Musk tweet regarding taking Tesla stock public. Tesla says the SEC is “weaponizing the consent decree by using it to try to muzzle and harass Mr.

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Tesla is now under NHTSA investigation for Autopilot’s phantom braking problem

Electrek

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that it opened an investigation into Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem under Autopilot. It’s an issue that owners have complained about for almost a year. more… The post Tesla is now under NHTSA investigation for Autopilot’s phantom braking problem appeared first on Electrek.

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Ford Mustang Mach-E wins Consumer Reports’ Electric Vehicle Top Pick award

Teslarati

The Ford Mustang Mach-E has won Consumer Reports ‘ award for the Electric Vehicle Top Pick. The Mustang Mach-E displaces the Tesla Model 3, which has held the award for the past two years. CR credits the Mach-E’s rich heritage with the Mustang brand and its obvious popularity based on sales figures to determine the vehicle was in the running for the top pick.

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Virginia to See 31,800+ Jobs from Build Back Better Act

CleanTechnica EVs

Richmond, Virginia — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Virginia. The Senate’s passage of the Build Back Better Act would bring these climate and economic benefits to states across the country. […].

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That Polestar 2 Super Bowl ad that took a shot at Tesla and VW? It actually worked

Teslarati

It appears that Polestar’s simple yet bold strategy in its Super Bowl commercial actually bore fruit. In its Super Bowl debut, Polestar took aim at both Tesla and Volkswagen, throwing shade at both companies’ efforts and highlighting that its vehicle, the Polestar 2, is a no-nonsense electric car that features no compromises. The ad spanned only 30 seconds, but its message was clear enough.

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Fisker announces over 31,000 Ocean reservations totaling $1.7 billion in potential revenue and ‘world leading warranty program’

Electrek

Fisker Inc. held its fourth quarter and 2021 fiscal year financial results call yesterday, sharing an update to investors and media alike. As part of a slew of progress news from the ever optimistic Henrik Fisker, the Ocean now has over 31,000 reservations and will deliver with what the automaker is calling a ‘world leading warranty program.’ more… The post Fisker announces over 31,000 Ocean reservations totaling $1.7 billion in potential revenue and ‘world leading warran

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American Jewish Committee calls out Elon Musk for comparing Trudeau to Hitler

Teslarati

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called out Tesla CEO Elon Musk for comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. “Once again, Elon Musk has exercised extremely poor judgment by invoking Hitler to make a point on social media. He must stop this unacceptable behavior,” the AJC said to Teslarati in a statement. “Musk may believe posting a meme comparing Justin Trudeau to a genocidal dictator who exterminated millions is an appropriate way to criticize p

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AutoFlight shares extended footage of ‘Prosperity I’ eVTOL air taxi, including takeoff and landing

Electrek

Following teaser footage of its “Prosperity I” eVTOL shared in January, AutoFlight has released a five minute video showing much more of its all-electric air-taxi in action. The newly released video features the eVTOL completing a vertical takeoff, transitioning to rear propulsion, and gliding forward before switching back to its top propellers and landing vertically. more… The post AutoFlight shares extended footage of ‘Prosperity I’ eVTOL air taxi, including takeo

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Ford and Volvo partner with Redwood Materials in pathways program for end-of-life EV batteries

Teslarati

Ford and Volvo have partnered with Redwood Materials for pathways for end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, Redwood Materials has now expanded its partnership with electric vehicle manufacturers to see that EV batteries are responsibly disposed of or recycled when they have reached the end of their life cycle.

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What the Sale of Narragansett Electric Means for RI's Clean Energy Future

Green Energy Consumers

One of the biggest questions in Rhode Island’s clean energy future is on the verge of conclusion: will Pennsylvania-based utility PPL succeed in buying National Grid’s Rhode Island electric and gas utilities? If the sale goes through, PPL will become the new utility company for almost all Rhode Islanders.

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Diess: Electric Pickup In US Is A "Good Idea," Beetle EV Possible

InsideEVs

The VW Group CEO did not confirm the models in his Reddit AMA session, but his comments suggest they are at least under consideration.

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