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Audi switching from truck to rail for battery delivery

Green Car Congress

Components for the production of batteries at Audi’s Brussels plant will no longer be delivered by truck from Hungary, but by rail with DB Cargo. The move will significantly reduce Audi’s carbon emissions and also save money. The switch in means of delivery between Hungary and Brussels, which was started in May and is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of 2023, is a preview of the car manufacturer’s future.

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Corolla Cross Hybrid, Lexus RX plug-in, Chevy Bolt EV price cut, EV price war: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Will more ethanol help ease gas prices? Which brand will apply the name Electra to upcoming EVs? This is our look back to the future, with the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 3, 2022. Despite the holiday weekend, the week that followed brought a number of new-model and even concept-car.

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LG Chem and KEMCO establish recycling and NCMA precursors JV

Green Car Congress

LG Chem will establish a recycling and precursor joint venture with KEMCO, a subsidiary of Korea Zinc Co., Ltd., to strengthen its battery material value chain. Precursors in this application context are raw material for cathodes manufactured by combining nickel, cobalt, manganese, aluminum, etc.; prescursors account for approximately 70% of cathode material costs.

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Early Days Of Tesla — Elon Musk Interview With Tesla Owners Of Silicon Valley

CleanTechnica EVs

There’s a new interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk out. Leaders from the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley were invited to interview Elon Musk, and the first part of the interview is now available. The group interviewing Elon consisted of Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley Club President John, Club Vice President Kelvin Gee, Tesla Owners […].

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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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EPA announces final RFS volumes for 2021 and 2022

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took action on Friday pursuant to a consent decree agreement that requires EPA to finalize RFS volumes for 2021 and 2022 no later than 3 June 2022 (Friday). In the final volumes, EPA adjusted the final biofuel volumes for 2021 to reflect updated data on actual 2021 ethanol use that has become available since the proposal was issued.

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France EV Share Grows In May, Fiat 500 Leads

CleanTechnica EVs

France, Europe’s second largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 20.9% share in April, from 17.3% year-on-year. Full battery electrics grew their share by almost 1.5x YoY, to 12%. Overall auto volumes were down 10% YoY, and down by around a third from May 2019, at 126,811 units. Market Share Trends May’s combined plugin […].

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Li-Cycle & Glencore Announce Partnership, Glencore Invests $200M In Li-Cycle

CleanTechnica EVs

Li-Cycle and Glencore have announced a strategic partnership that will provide customers with an integrated approach for both primary and recycled metal needs. As part of this partnership. This is in addition to another partnership announced earlier in May. The two companies executed a global feedstock supply agreement in which Glencore will supply all types […].

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USDA providing $700M to provide economic relief to more than 100 biofuel producers and 195 facilities

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided $700 million to help lower costs and support biofuel producers who faced unexpected market losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds are being made available through the Biofuel Producer Program, which was created as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The investments include more than $486 million for 62 producers located in socially vulnerable communities.

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Top 20 Electric Cars In The World — April 2022 (Charts)

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 38% in April 2022 compared to April 2021. Despite several disturbing factors happening all at once (the invasion of Ukraine, Covid-19 lockdowns in China, chip and battery shortages, supply chain disruptions …), the truth is that there were 542,000 registrations last month, representing 10.2% share of the overall auto […].

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: Chinese electric car without a rear end

Electrek

When it comes to electric cars on China’s largest online shopping site Alibaba, you can find just about anything. And that variety has kept me in business, so to speak, by finding the weirdest and most fun ones out there for my weekly Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column. That often means funny-shaped electric vehicles or sometimes odd mashups that take to the sea or even the sky.

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

Brief

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EPA’s Proposed Truck Rule Delays Justice for Freight-Impacted Communities

CleanTechnica EVs

Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Dave Cooke It has been over twenty years since smog-forming and particulate pollution standards for heavy-duty trucks were strengthened. In the absence of federal action, states have moved forward to reduce pollution from trucks. Unfortunately, just last week truck manufacturers filed a lawsuit to prevent states from enforcing […].

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Tesla’s remote work policy has Amazon attempting to poach unhappy employees

Teslarati

Tesla’s new policy on remote work, which essentially eliminates the possibility of employees working from home, has e-commerce giant Amazon attempting to poach employees who are unhappy with Elon Musk’s new demands. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla.

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$24,000 Space Camper For Tesla Cybertruck Is Clever And Stylish

InsideEVs

This is another cool camper addition for the Cybertruck that actually makes the truck look more normal.

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News: 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV/EUV Get Big Price Drop

Clean Fleet Report

Significant Price Reduction Repositions Entry-Level EV. Chevrolet announced this week that its 2023 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV are going to get major drops in price. The intention is to make the company’s two electric car offerings more attractive to consumers, especially those that are looking for an affordable alternative to a gasoline-powered car. Same car, less cost.

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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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Production Polestar 5 Patent Drawing Shows A Toned Down Precept

InsideEVs

The Polestar 5 will enter production in 2024 and serve as the brand’s flagship offering.

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Wheel-E Podcast! E-bike charging stations, Luna review, USPS mail bikes, Chinese e-trike & more

Electrek

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes the West Coast Electric Highway adding electric bicycle chargers to its electric car charging stations, new e-bike belt drive products from Gates Carbon Drive, a review of the super-affordable Luna Eclipse folding belt-drive full-suspension fat tire e-bike, a new seated electric scooter from Fucare, USPS testing e

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UK: Electric Car Fast Charging Costs Rise By 21 Percent In Eight Months

InsideEVs

But charging is still cheaper than filling up with petrol or diesel.

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Quick Charge Podcast: June 4, 2022

Electrek

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. more…. The post Quick Charge Podcast: June 4, 2022 appeared first on Electrek.

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Kia EV6: Honest Opinion After Several Thousand Miles Of Ownership

InsideEVs

EV6 Owner Emad outlines all the pros and cons of his first electric car.

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Volkswagen and Mahindra & Mahindra Strikes Partnership to Capture The Indian EV Market

Get Electric Vehicle

Volkswagen and Mahindra & Mahindra have revealed that VW’s MEB electric components would be used in Mahindra’s “Born Electric Platform.” On May 18th, the companies inked a collaboration deal that the two companies will now assess the scope of their partnership. The companies’ shared goal for the collaboration is to grow the electric car market and accelerate the electrification of the Indian automotive sector.

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Electric Cycle Under 10,000 INR ?

Electric Vehicless

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

In late 1969, C. Peter McColough, chairman of Xerox Corp., told the New York Society of Security Analysts that Xerox was determined to develop “the architecture of information” to solve the problems that had been created by the “knowledge explosion.” Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. Goldman, senior vice president of research and development, and said, “All right, go start a lab that will find out what I just meant.“ This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘in

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Elon Musk’s ‘super bad feeling’ about the economy provokes strange reaction from Joe Biden

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to company executives earlier this week explaining his reasons for a cutback on salaried positions, which was based on a “super bad feeling” about the United States economy. President Joe Biden, during a press conference at the White House yesterday, took Musk’s comments personally after making numerous claims about the strength of the economy.

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