Sat.Mar 26, 2022

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Vale Canada to supply Northvolt with low-carbon nickel products for batteries

Green Car Congress

Vale Canada and lithium-ion cell producer Northvolt AB announced a multi-year agreement for Vale to supply low-carbon nickel products to Northvolt, reinforcing the companies’ shared commitment to sustainability in the electric vehicle supply chain and electrification of the broader mining industry. Vale is the world’s largest producer of nickel. The agreement reaffirms Vale’s position as a supplier of choice to the fast-growing electric vehicle industry and aligns with Northvolt’s imperative to

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Nissan Ariya review, EQXX up close, F-150 Lightning range, welcoming Hummer EV: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which American automaker celebrated a German factory this week? And have gas prices prompted Americans to drive less? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 25, 2022. This week we got a preview drive of the 2023 Nissan Ariya electric crossover and found that it essentially.

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bp to invest £1B in EV charging in the UK over next 10 years

Green Car Congress

bp plans to invest £1 billion (US$1.3 billion) in electric vehicle charging in the UK, supercharging the roll-out of fast, convenient charging across the country. bp pulse, bp’s EV charging business, intends to make the investment over the next 10 years helping to meet the UK’s fast-growing demand for EV charging and support the country’s transition to low carbon transportation for both consumers and fleet vehicles.

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Tesla begins inviting 15,000 guests to ‘Cyber Rodeo’ at Gigafactory Texas

Teslarati

Tesla has officially started inviting the 15,000 guests to its “Cyber Rodeo” event at Gigafactory Texas on April 7, as CEO Elon Musk published a photo of a virtual invitation to the event last night. Tesla announced it would hold an event to commemorate the opening of its newest production facility and second in the United States, Gigafactory Texas.

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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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20% Plugin Vehicle Market Share in China! BYD Shining

CleanTechnica EVs

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Even in the slowest month of the year, plugins scored 291,000 registrations, up 176% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 665,000 units, and with March set to be another strong month (400,000 units?), we should have over 1 million […].

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Tesla pushes several trim levels for Model Y, Model X back to 2023 delivery

Teslarati

Tesla has pushed delivery wait times for several trim levels of the Model Y and Model X back to 2023 as demand for the automaker’s vehicles continues to exceed the company’s production capabilities. In 2021 and 2022, Tesla saw demand for its cars reach extraordinary levels as it continues to work on expanding its production capacity. With plans for Gigafactory Texas to open soon and extremely preliminary ideas for a potential expansion of the Fremont Factory in Northern California, T

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Tesla removes strange Full Self-Driving loophole that shortened wait times for vehicles

Teslarati

Tesla has removed a strange Full Self-Driving loophole that some customers used to reduce delivery wait times for the company’s all-electric vehicles. Tesla has been experiencing an increase in delivery times to customers as demand continues to outpace the company’s production capabilities. Due to the wait times, some customers have opted for another electric car, or to purchase a pre-owned Tesla, which has become a pricier option within the last several months.

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $8,000 electric boat with submarine capsule

Electrek

We have a lot of fun scouring the abyss of Alibaba in search of the most creative assemblages in the Chinese shopping site’s endless array of electric vehicles. That search often takes us on land and occasionally even into the skies. But this week we’re going to don our bucket hats, flip-flops, and tank tops as we head to sea on one of the weirdest electric boats I’ve ever seen. more….

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This Axial-Flux Motor With a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World

Cars That Think

The heart of any electric motor consists of a rotor that revolves around a stationary part, called a stator. The stator, traditionally made of iron, tends to be heavy. Stator iron accounts for about two-thirds of the weight of a conventional motor. To lighten the stator, some people proposed making it out of a printed circuit board. Although the idea of replacing a hunk of iron with a lightweight, ultrathin, easy-to-make, long-lasting PCB was attractive from the outset, it didn’t gain widespread

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Cake’s electric motorcycles could soon be even greener with paper body panels instead of plastic

Electrek

Cake, the Swedish company known for its electric dirt bikes, street motorcycles and mopeds, has just announced a new partnership with PaperShell that could see the motorcycle manufacturer asking customers upon checkout, “Paper or plastic?”. more…. The post Cake’s electric motorcycles could soon be even greener with paper body panels instead of plastic appeared first on Electrek.

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

Brief

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How This Horror Story Led To Creating Safer Conditions For EV Charging

CleanTechnica EVs

ChargeSafe founder Kate Tyrrell recently shared with me why she created ChargeSafe, along with her own horror story of going from broken EV charger to broken EV charger late at night in dangerous situations. I recently wrote an article sharing how EV charging operators need to take women’s safety seriously and have gotten some good […].

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Surfing the Metaverse’s Real Estate Boom

Cars That Think

The real estate boom isn’t limited to reality. A prime plot in Decentraland , a metaverse platform, sold for the equivalent of 2.4 million dollars in November of 2021 , and less desirable land often sells for six figures. This creates a problem all too common in the real world. Many who’d like to own a plot in the metaverse are now priced out. So Metaverse decentralized autonomous organizations (a.k.a.

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Plugin Vehicles Start 2022 At 8.4% In Italy — Dacia Spring BEV Best Seller

CleanTechnica EVs

Originally published on opportunity:energy. The race of Italy’s electric car market shows signs of fatigue, as 2022 started off with mixed results. While other European countries continued boasting exponential rises in January consistent with the exuberance of year-end, the same was not completely true in the continent’s fourth largest car market.

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SB-4 Would Raise CHEAPR MSRP Cap

EV Club of CT

Omnibus Transportation and Energy Committee Bill Includes Support for EVs Aside from SB-214 that would enable direct EV sales, there was another significant bill that advanced to the full chamber in SB-4 which passed by. Read more.

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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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Wheel-E Podcast! New Aventon e-bikes, SUPER73 electric motorcycle, Segway e-scooters & more

Electrek

This week on Electrek’s new Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This week that includes new Aventon e-bikes, SUPER73 electric motorcycle, Segway seated electric scooters, Fiido’s upcoming seated AND standing electric scooter, and lots more…. more…. The post Wheel-E Podcast!

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Event: “Building an Electric Future” at the Petersen

Clean Fleet Report

Museum Exhibit Review: 107 Years of Electric Cars. With the recent technological advancements and increased adoption of electric cars, SUVs and trucks, it is lost on most people that electricity was an early popular propulsion system for cars. This development began in the early 1800s throughout Europe, leading to the first commercially available American vehicle hitting the road in 1890.

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Elon Musk: Tesla Aims To Sell 20-Million EVs Annually By The Early 2030s

InsideEVs

He admits that is an aggressive plan, but also believes it could still be feasible.

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BOLT installs 10k EV charging points in India | Electric charging stations

Electric Vehicles India

BOLT installs 10k EV charging points in India; fast tracks its expansion plans.To install 100,000 charging points in the next 6 months. BOLT, an All-in-One EV Infrastructure Provider, announced the installation of 10,000 BOLT EV charging stations in India in 6 months. This milestone is an important step towards the startup’s goal of installing One Million BOLT charging points across 500 cities in India & other emerging markets.

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Rivian R1T Charging Analysis: From 0 To 100% State-Of-Charge

InsideEVs

Are the fast charging capabilities as great as the vehicle's performance?

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OMV says it will stop oil and gas production by 2050 in transformation to net-zero

Green Car Congress

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. In keeping with this strategic shift of business, OMV will reduce its oil and gas production by around 20% by 2030 and will completely cease oil and gas production for energy use by 2050.

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Hot 2023 Audi RS Q6 E-Tron Spied For The First Time

InsideEVs

This will be the range-topping performance variant of the upcoming Q6 E-Tron, the Porsche Macan EV’s sister vehicle.

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Stellantis Hurricane twin-turbo I-6 cuts emissions, increases fuel economy and is more powerful

Green Car Congress

Stellantis revealed its new, 3.0-liter, twin-turbo, inline, six-cylinder engine, named Hurricane, that delivers better fuel economy and fewer emissions than larger engines while at the same time generates more horsepower and torque than many competitors’ naturally aspirated V-8 and boosted six-cylinder power plants. The Hurricane twin-turbo’s robust base architecture enables Stellantis propulsion systems engineers to create two distinct variants: Standard Output (SO): Optimized for fuel economy,

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Bjørn Nyland Checks Out Volvo C40 Recharge Range

InsideEVs

Compared to the Volvo XC40 Recharge, it appears to be a bit more efficient.

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Tesla’s crazy laser windshield wipers have been published by the US Patent Office

Teslarati

Tesla’s idea for a crazy windshield wiper that would clear debris from a driver’s line of sight using a laser beam has been officially published by the United States Patent Office. Tesla filed the application for the patent in May 2019, and it finally was granted in late 2021. Now, the U.S. Patent Office has published the patent, making it publicly viewable.

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Volvo C40 Recharge Surprisingly Beat XC40 In Bjørn's Banana Box Test

InsideEVs

Nonetheless, the result is rather average.

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New update from TATA Nexon Electric Car – Nexon EV is upgrading the range to 400 KM.

Electric Vehicles India

New update from TATA Nexon Electric car, ever before TATA Nexon is going to upgrade range up to 400 km on a single charge. In 2022 TATA Nexon EV is upgrading its Battery pack and this will boost the range to 400 KM on a single charge. Tata Motors is the #1 Electric Cars manufacturer in India. Tata Motors is the best-selling electric car company of 2020 and 2021.

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Watch Peugeot e-2008 Perform The Moose Test

InsideEVs

Better than the Peugeot e-208?

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