Sat.Sep 11, 2021

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Three-part catalyst study advances conversion of CO2 to ethanol

Green Car Congress

An international collaboration of scientists has taken a significant step toward the realization of a nearly “green” zero-net-carbon technology that can efficiently convert CO 2 and hydrogen into ethanol. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , lays out a roadmap for successfully navigating this challenging reaction and provides a picture of the full reaction sequence using theoretical modeling and experimental characterization.

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Polestar 2 review, Mercedes EQE, Toyota battery plan, Hyundai hydrogen vision: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which automaker announced plans to cut battery degradation to 10 percent over 10 years? Which states haven’t required EV sales but are among those with the highest EV registrations? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 10, 2021. This week we brought you two.

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Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

Green Car Congress

Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. In the journal Angewandte Chemie , a research team has now introduced a novel and inexpensive material for electrodes that may provide for highly efficient, energy-saving hydrogen production: porous, phosphorized CoNi 2 S 4 yolk-shell nanospheres.

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Tesla FSD Beta 10 released, proceeds to blow minds with perfect Lombard St test

Teslarati

Just as promised by CEO Elon Musk, Tesla rolled out FSD Beta 10 to its group of testers as the weekend was starting. Few videos of the advanced driver-assist system in action have been shared online so far, though comments from some FSD Beta testers have indicated that V10 does indeed present some notable improvements compared to the outgoing V9.2. FSD Beta 10 came as part of update 2020.24.15, which featured a set of identical release notes as the outgoing version.

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

emissions global warming Norway climate change carbon dioxide youtube lighting

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Ground-breaking on Haru Oni eFuels plant|in Chile; Porsche to use in motor sports from 2022

Green Car Congress

Porsche and Siemens Energy have joined forces with a number of international companies to build an industrial plant for the production of nearly CO?-neutral fuel (eFuel) in Punta Arenas, Chile. A pilot plant is initially being built north of Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia, which is expected to produce around 130,000 liters of eFuels in 2022. Rendering of the pilot plant on the site.

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Tesla pushes its ‘mind-blowing’ Full Self-Driving Beta v10 to early access fleet

Electrek

Tesla has started pushing its Full Self-Driving Beta v10 software, a version that CEO Elon Musk called “mind-blowing”, to its early access fleet. Are your minds blown yet? more… The post Tesla pushes its ‘mind-blowing’ Full Self-Driving Beta v10 to early access fleet appeared first on Electrek.

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: $1,500 electric duck boat

Electrek

There are few things more pleasurable than a relaxing Sunday on your own boat, slowly meandering your way around the local lake or water hole. And lately the increasing number of electric boats are making that experience even more relaxing by removing the noisy and troublesome gas engines from the mix. But electric boats have often been prohibitively expensive … until now!

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UK Legislation Will Require All New Homes To Have EV Chargepoints

CleanTechnica EVs

The move aims to drastically increase the rate at which charge points are being built so the UK can hit its 2030 target for eliminating sales of new gas and diesel cars.

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What Do You Think Of This $25,000 Tesla Rendering?

InsideEVs

This is what a direct rival from Tesla for the VW ID.3 could look like.

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Tesla Model 3 Road Trip Up Queensland, Part 2 — A Kindness Repaid

CleanTechnica EVs

Continuing the story of driving a Tesla Model 3 SR+ 3000 km from Brisbane to Winton Queensland, here’s a second part of the journey. After careful planning and a few weeks of nervous anticipation (fearing that covid lockdown may yet be reimposed), we set off on the first part of our trip to Winton. We […].

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

Brief

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Tesla Finds Loophole Around New Mexico’s Ban On Direct Car Sales

InsideEVs

By building on tribal land, Tesla has seemingly bypassed a law preventing them from building stores and service centers in New Mexico.

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Peoria Welcomes Electric Transit Buses ElBae & Friends

CleanTechnica EVs

Originally published by NRDC. By Alyssa Brown & Selena Kyle This is the fifth in a series of blogs celebrating the grant projects funded through our Clean Air Act settlement with the owners of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois. The settlement provides for the plant to close by the end of 2022 and makes $8.6 […].

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FIRST TIMER: 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E

Clean Fleet Report

Transition: Iconic Mustang Coupe to the Mustang Mach-E. In 2019 Ford announced the name of its all-new, all-electric crossover would be the Mustang Mach-E. It is an understatement that the Mustang community was not pleased. How dare Ford besmirch the good Mustang name by calling a SUV, powered by electricity no less, a Mustang? The uproar was strong at first, but has since softened as Mustang aficionados have come to realize the Mach-E is truly a horse of a different color.

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New York City Plans Major Expansion Of EV Charging Stations

CleanTechnica EVs

New York City plans to add nearly 50,000 public EV chargers in the 5 boroughs by the end of this decade.

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

Oil

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Tata Steel uses electric vehicles for transportation of finished steel 

Electric Vehicles India

Tata Steel uses electric vehicles for transportation of finished steel. Tata Steel an Indian multinational steel-making company has introduced the use of electric vehicles for transportation of finished steel at Jamshedpur after launching the initiative earlier at the Sahibabad Plant in Uttar Pradesh. This initiative of deployment is the first-ever electric vehicle by any steel producer in India for transportation of finished steel.

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Tesla Successfully Patents Laser Windshield Wiper Idea

InsideEVs

Who needs metal and rubber wipers when you can just have lasers instead?

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Battery capacity needs to power EVs in India from 2020 to 2035

Electric Vehicles India

Battery capacity needs to power EVs in India from 2020 to 2035. The battery pack and its capacity in an electric vehicle are very important. Here in this article, we will be discussing the need for the battery capacity to power electric vehicles in India from 2020 to 2035. Battery packs are the costliest of all the components in electric vehicles, one third of the cost of the EV is for the battery as there is a lack of lithium reserves in India.

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UK Electric Car Uptake 'Lacks Required Pace' To Meet Targets

InsideEVs

Auto Trader reckons we need EVs to make up more than half the new car market in just five years' time.

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Ramping up for an eager nation

Electric Auto Association

EV News: The latest and greatest. StoreDot’s cylindrical EV battery. EV charging 10-minute turnaround on close horizon The “world’s first” silicon-dominant battery prototype , capable of recharging an electric vehicle (EV) in 10 minutes. was unveiled by Israeli firm StoreDot. Energy from below The first concrete highway in the U.S. with inbuilt vehicle charging is planned by Indiana’s Department of Transportation and Purdue University.

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US: Entry-Level Tesla Model 3/Y Delivery Time Extends To February

InsideEVs

The Tesla Model 3 SR+ gets a new range estimation (1 mile lower), while the Tesla Model S Plaid gets 6 more miles.

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Ramping up for an eager nation

Electric Auto Association

EV News: The latest and greatest. StoreDot’s cylindrical EV battery. EV charging 10-minute turnaround on close horizon The “world’s first” silicon-dominant battery prototype , capable of recharging an electric vehicle (EV) in 10 minutes. was unveiled by Israeli firm StoreDot. Energy from below The first concrete highway in the U.S. with inbuilt vehicle charging is planned by Indiana’s Department of Transportation and Purdue University.

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Rivian Delays The ‘ Tank Turn ’ Spin-On-The-Spot Feature

InsideEVs

It's apparently much harder to get it to work consistently in different environments.

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Jaguar I-PACE Electric Car Community Meetup

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal The PluginIndia team had the opportunity to create content on the award winning Jaguar I-PACE electric car. We asked the JLR team if we could also do a EV Community meet along with test rides. The JLR team agreed and we organized the event at our friend's biogas farm , which we featured last year. Here is the video and writeup on the wonderful community meetup.

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China: Tesla Increases Price Of Model Y Performance

InsideEVs

Customer deliveries were pushed to the fourth quarter.

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Tesla vehicle reviews are pointless…Here’s why

Teslarati

This is a preview from our weekly newsletter. Each week I go ‘Beyond the News’ and handcraft a special edition that includes my thoughts on the biggest stories, why it matters, and how it could impact the future. . Tesla vehicle reviews are probably one of the most worthless things to read, in my own opinion, especially if they’re coming from a large group or entity with interests that anyone can trace through the money.

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Bjørn Nyland Checks Entry-Level Volkswagen ID.3 Pure's Range

InsideEVs

It almost matches the WLTP range rating.

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Graphene Jolts Sodium-Ion Batteries’ Capacity

Cars That Think

After years of anticipation, sodium-ion batteries are starting to deliver on their promise for energy storage. But so far, their commercialization is limited to large-scale uses such as storing energy on the grid. Sodium-ion batteries just don't have the oomph needed for EVs and laptops. At about 285 Wh/kg, lithium-ion batteries have twice the energy density of sodium, making them more suitable for those portable applications.

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Best-Selling Vehicles In Countries Across The Globe: Infographic

InsideEVs

This puts global car sales into perspective.

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Dems propose new $12,500 electric car rebate, Tesla left with $4,500 disadvantage

Electrek

Democrats have proposed an updated electric car incentive program at the federal level, which would go through their $3.5 trillion social spending bill. It would remove the limit on the number of vehicles and replace it with a timeline, introduce a higher payout up to $12,500 and make it point-of-sale, but there are also new restrictions that would put Tesla at a $4,500 disadvantage. more… The post Dems propose new $12,500 electric car rebate, Tesla left with $4,500 disadvantage appeared f

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Watch Tesla Model S Plaid Do 1/4 Mile In Under 9.2s Without Seats

InsideEVs

But it's not a family car anymore now.

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The New Union-Focused EV Tax Credit Bonus & American-Made Tax Credit Cut Proposed In The House Is Stupid

CleanTechnica EVs

First, a word on how legislation is made in the USA, in the simplest effective way I can formulate it right now: If a bill is going to be passed into law, most members of the House of Representatives, most members of the Senate, and the President of the United States need to all agree […].

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Infographic: Best-Selling Vehicles in Each of the World’s Countries

CleanTechnica EVs

Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris If you’re a car buff, and have traveled abroad, you’ve doubtless noticed that the mix of auto brands you see on the streets is radically different from one country to another. In many other markets, vehicles that rule the roads here in the US are rare birds, while brands and […].

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