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GM opens broad application of EV component sets

Green Car Congress

General Motors will offer EV technology beyond its own portfolio and automotive applications more broadly, one component at a time. This approach will enable GM to expand its reach to a larger, more diverse group of commercial customers, helping organizations meet the growing demand for zero-emissions technology while achieving their own sustainability targets.

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Arrival reveals its EV especially designed for Uber and ride hailing

Green Car Reports

In Europe and in the U.S. alike, ride hailing needs to go fully electric as soon as possible. Otherwise it’s adding to local pollution issues and global warming. And yet the needs of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are quite different versus typical personal use. They are essentially the new generation of taxi fleets. And it.

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SLAC, Stanford researchers revitalize batteries by bringing ‘dead’ lithium back to life

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries, potentially boosting the range of electric vehicles and battery life in next-gen electronic devices. As lithium batteries cycle, they accumulate little islands of inactive lithium that are cut off from the electrodes, decreasing the battery’s capacity to store charge.

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Hyundai Ioniq 5: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist

Green Car Reports

Among all the new electric cars coming out this year, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the one that best shows that affordable EVs don’t have to look and feel like everything else. There’s room to reformat the car and mix in some rad cues from the past, without losing focus on a future that doesn’t involve tailpipe emissions. The Hyundai.

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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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Cummins & Sinopec launch JV to produce and promote green hydrogen technologies in China

Green Car Congress

Cummins Inc. and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) have formed a 50:50 joint venture: Cummins Enze (Guangdong) Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd. The joint venture will accelerate the affordability and availability of green hydrogen through increased technological innovation, research and development, and manufacturing capacity. Cummins Enze, located in Foshan, Guangdong Province in China, will initially invest $47 million (RMB 300 million) to locate a manufacturing plant to produce pro

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2022 Tesla Model 3: Charging to 100% can be the norm for 272-mile LFP version

Green Car Reports

Tesla is providing a recommendation to owners of new base 2022 Model 3 RWD electric cars equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells that is something of a gift in usable range: Charge to 100% on a regular basis. The automaker began using LFP cells for Chinese-market vehicles, but has been hinting at a broader shift for some time.

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LFP Model 3 charging, Ioniq 5 finalist, EV for Uber: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Some Tesla Model 3 owners are encouraged to charge to 100%. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 wows us as a finalist. And Arrival’s EV for Uber aims to be the taxi of the future. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Tesla is now delivering some Model 3 vehicles powered by lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, and while a bit slower and heavier they.

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Plus starts development with Teledyne FLIR to test thermal cameras for autonomous trucks

Green Car Congress

Plus (formerly Plus.ai), a global provider of self-driving truck technology, will collaborate with Teledyne FLIR on a development project to explore the addition of thermal cameras to the sensor stack used with Plus’s Level 4 autonomous driving technology. Plus takes a multi-modal sensor approach and currently uses lidar, cameras, and radar to provide trucks powered by its autonomous driving technology with a 360-degree view around the vehicle.

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Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement

Electrek

A Tesla Model S owner in Finland decided to blow up his electric car with dynamite after it needed a battery replacement, which Tesla said was going to cost $22,000. more… The post Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement appeared first on Electrek.

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ARPA-E to award INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines $2.2M for emissions reduction technology demonstration project

Green Car Congress

INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines has been selected to receive more than $2.2 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of ARPA-E’s “Reducing Emissions of Methane Every Day of the Year” (REMEDY) program that was unveiled earlier this year ( earlier post ). The program aims to reduce emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries and promote innovation and manufacturing of new technologies to achieve climate goals.

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

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Tesla supplier Panasonic announces new training, R&D campus near Gigafactory Nevada

Teslarati

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic announced today that it intends to build a new campus in Reno that will handle training, research and development, employee recruitment centers, and other support functions. It is located just 25 miles from Gigafactory Nevada, where Tesla builds battery cells, Model 3 electric motors, and battery packs, along with energy storage products.

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Rolls-Royce developing methanol-fueled mtu engines for shipping

Green Car Congress

Rolls-Royce is focusing on methanol as a fuel for climate-friendly shipping; Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems is currently developing mtu engines for use with methanol. The new high-speed four-stroke engines, which are based on proven mtu technologies, are planned to be available to customers as soon as possible for use in commercial ships and yachts.

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Tesla applies to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors

Electrek

Tesla has applied to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors, which would be a first in the US. The move comes as Tesla is planning to open its Supercharger network to other automakers. more… The post Tesla applies to install Supercharger stations in Texas with CCS connectors appeared first on Electrek.

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Heniff Transportation signs LOI with the intent to purchase up to 100 Nikola Tre BEV trucks

Green Car Congress

Heniff Transportation Systems has reached an agreement initially to acquire 10 Nikola Tre BEV trucks from Thompson Truck Centers, a member of the Nikola Corporation sales and service dealer network. The agreement between Heniff Transportation and Thompson Truck Centers is a fleet-as-a-service model where Thompson will provide the sales, service, maintenance, and energy infrastructure required to operate the Nikola Tre BEV trucks.

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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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Tesla (TSLA) secures graphite anode material for battery production in rare new offtake deal

Electrek

Tesla (TSLA) has secured new “Active Anode Material” from graphite for battery production in a rare new offtake agreement deal with Syrah Resources Limited. more… The post Tesla (TSLA) secures graphite anode material for battery production in rare new offtake deal appeared first on Electrek.

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19% Plugin Vehicle Share In Chinese Auto Market!

CleanTechnica EVs

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored a record 413,000 registrations in November, up 106% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over to 2.7 million units, and with December set to be another record month (half a million units?), we should have over 3 million registrations by […].

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Tesla confirms to NHTSA it will halt in-car gaming while vehicle is in motion

Teslarati

Tesla will deactivate Gaming features while its vehicles are in motion following the launch of an NHTSA probe into the feature, the agency confirmed on Thursday. Yesterday, the NHTSA announced that it would launch a probe investigating the “Passenger Play” features within a Tesla. The probe, affecting over 580,000 Tesla vehicles, will look into the aspects of the feature, “including the frequency and use scenarios of Tesla Passenger Play,” it said.

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Taiga Motors makes its first production electric snowmobiles

Electrek

Taiga Motors announced that it has manufactured its first production electric snowmobiles and deliveries are expected to start early next year following regulatory approval. more… The post Taiga Motors makes its first production electric snowmobiles appeared first on Electrek.

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Frontier Supercomputer to Usher in Exascale Computing

Cars That Think

In 2018, a new supercomputer called Summit was installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , in Tennessee. Its theoretical peak capacity was nearly 200 petaflops—that’s 200 thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. At the time, it was the most powerful supercomputer in the world, beating out the previous record holder, China’s Sunway TaihuLight, by a comfortable margin, according to the well-known Top500 ranking of supercomputers.

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22 of the most anticipated electric vehicles coming in 2022

Electrek

Here we sit on the precipice of 2022, which is hopefully a shiny new start and not “2020 II.” One of the more optimistic outlooks we can share in the new year is the prospect of further EV adoption, led by an absolute slew of new EV models from all of the major names in vehicles. Below are some of the most anticipated electric vehicles scheduled to arrive in 2022, along with a little blurb about each so you can start planning which ones you want to test drive first. more… The p

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Tesla agrees to purchase majority of battery-ready graphite from US facility

Teslarati

Tesla will be purchasing most of the battery-ready graphite that would be produced at a planned facility in Louisiana. The move is seen as part of the company’s efforts to acquire key materials for its vehicles from sources beyond China. As noted in a Bloomberg report, Melbourne-based Syrah Resources Ltd would be supplying Tesla with graphite anode material for an initial period of four years.

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Australia has no offshore wind power, but that’s about to change

Electrek

Australia is about to get its first offshore wind farms. The three projects will consist of two floating wind farms and one fixed-bottom wind farm, with a total installed capacity of 4.3 gigawatts. more… The post Australia has no offshore wind power, but that’s about to change appeared first on Electrek.

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Tesla’s camera-based driver monitoring still inadequate, argues Consumer Reports

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For the longest time, Consumer Reports has heavily criticized Tesla’s driver monitoring systems since the EV maker primarily relied on the vehicles’ steering wheel to determine if a driver is paying attention to the road or not. Now that Tesla has rolled out its camera-based eye-tracking system, Consumer Reports’ stance remains the same.

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Biden administration approves three big solar farms on public land

Electrek

The US Department of the Interior announced on Tuesday that it has approved two solar farms, with a third nearing final approval, on public lands. more… The post Biden administration approves three big solar farms on public land appeared first on Electrek.

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QFleet Transitioning to New Energy Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

Under the Queensland Department of Energy and Public Works, QFleet manages the procurement and maintenance of state vehicles. Now, QFleet is eager to go electric. The QFleet Electric Vehicle Transition Strategy commits QFleet to doubling the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in its fleet annually for four years, reaching at least 144 by December 2021 […].

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The weirdest electric bike I’ve ever tested just got a big new update, and I love it

Electrek

Rungu’s dual-front wheel electric bicycles are unlike anything else on the road or the trails. And now the company is releasing new updates to make them better than ever. more… The post The weirdest electric bike I’ve ever tested just got a big new update, and I love it appeared first on Electrek.

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Head or Heart — Camaro vs. Tesla

CleanTechnica EVs

Allan dropped in to see me today; we haven’t seen each other for about four years. Our bond is that he was my principal when I retired from teaching. We made a great team and we still get on well. I thought he was coming to see me because he has read my writings and […].

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Ola wanted to build 2 million electric scooters per year, but it’s hit a big problem

Electrek

Ola Electric became the darling of the Indian electric scooter market when it unveiled its S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters earlier this year. The high-performance scooters boasted speeds of over 70 mph (115 km/h) yet came affordably priced at between US $1,050-$1,300. The ambitious company built a sprawling mega-factory designed to meet the surging demand for its scooters, intending to produce 2 million electric scooters per year.

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Volkswagen Plans To Offer V2G And Plug & Charge Technology In 2022

CleanTechnica EVs

Volkswagen will introduce plug & charge and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability for ID. branded cars this year.

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Audi Increasing Investments In EVs, Hybrids To €18 Billion By 2026

InsideEVs

That's out of a total of €37 billion the automaker has pledged to invest in new vehicle projects.

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It’s Here: The Most Complete List of E-Bike Brands ANYWHERE

CleanTechnica EVs

It seems like a new brand of e-bikes shows up in our ad feeds every day, making it hard to find them all - we made a list to help!

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Subaru Teases Tokyo-Bound STI E-RA Electric Concept

InsideEVs

If you’re a driving (and especially rallying) enthusiast who also likes EVs, then this should really get your blood pumping.

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Tesla Halts Passenger Gaming In Moving Cars

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla recently started allowing passengers to play a few games on its infotainment system while the car was in motion. There were many concerns about how the system could be manipulated by the driver to allow them to play while driving, or even just watch a passenger play while driving. This would make for a […].

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Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection

Cars That Think

The full archives of the SAIEE Africa Research Journal —some issues dating back more than 100 years—are now available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The open-access quarterly journal from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers publishes peer-reviewed articles on research in IEEE’s fields of interest. The digitization of the 5,000 articles—dating between 1909, when the publication launched, and 2008—took almost eight years to complete.

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