Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

LiquidPiston, an innovator of compact and efficient engine technology and hybrid power systems, intends to commercialize the XTS-210, a 25-horsepower, two-stroke, supercharged, liquid-cooled, 210cc rotary engine. The XTS-210 is heavy-fuel compatible (diesel, Jet A, JP-8, kerosene) and multi-fuel capacble (gasoline, propane, hydrogen). Compared to current piston diesel engines, the XTS-210 design reduces size and weight by nearly 80%, while maintaining comparable power output.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2023

Ryder will be the latest customer for General Motors' BrightDrop electric vans. The rental company on Monday announced plans to acquire 4,000 BrightDrop vans through 2025, with the first 200 to be ordered this year, according to a company press release. The first vehicles will be 2023 BrightDrop Zevo 600 models heading to rental fleets in.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

General Motors’ Chevrolet brand reported US deliveries of 19,700 units of the Bolt EV/EUV in Q1 2023. Sales in Q1 2022 were only 358 units, as the Bolt was recovering from the battery issues that halted production and sales of the vehicle earlier in 2021. Combined with Cadillac LYRIQ deliveries of 968 units—and the delivery of 2 units of the HUMMER EV Pickup—General Motors delivered 20,670 battery-electric vehicles in Q1.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2023

Obsessive wind-tunnel work—of the sort that used to be reserved for racing and supercars—has become an essential in building modern electric vehicles like the Volkswagen ID.7. Aero can go a long way toward accelerating EV adoption. It isn’t just the key to more miles of range and better efficiency. It helps keep battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In Q1 2023, Volkswagen of America reported 67,853 units sold—up 4.4% from the 64,993 in Q1 2022. Volkswagen currently has only one EV on the US market: the ID.4. Sales of the ID.4 in Q1 2023 jumped 254.2% to 9,758 units, representing 14.4% of all new vehicle sales for the period. By contrast, in Q1 2022, the ID.4 sold only 2,755 units, representing only 4.2% of new sales.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla is preparing to make 4 million units of its next vehicle, a ~$25,000 electric car, based on supply chain sources coming out of China. more… The post Tesla prepares to make 4 million units of its cheap electric car, supply chain sources say appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 4, 2023

Sweden’s plugin electric vehicles took almost 60% of the auto market in March, up from 55.6% year on year. BEVs alone took 41.6% of the market, up from 31.8% YoY. Overall auto market volume was 30,261 units, up some 5% YoY, though still below historical seasonal norms.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In Q1 2023, Audi of America reported 52,763 deliveries, up 49% year-on-year. Of those sales, 4,438 were battery-electric, up 36.5% from the 3,252 BEVs sold in Q1 2022. However, because overall Audi sales rose, the share of new vehicle sales for BEVs dropped from 9.2% to 8.4%. The best-selling EV in Q! was the Q4 e-tron, with 1674 units, followed by the older e-tron, with 1,053 units.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 4, 2023

Sales of battery electric vehicles breached the 500 units per year mark in South Africa for the first time ever in 2022. Last year, 502 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in South Africa, up from 218 in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

DENSO has developed its first inverter with silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors. This inverter, which is incorporated in the eAxle, an electric driving module developed by BluE Nexus Corporation, will be used in the new Lexus RZ, the automaker’s first dedicated battery electric vehicle (BEV) model, to be released March 30. SiC power semiconductors significantly reduce power loss compared to silicon (Si) power semiconductors.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2023

LG Innotek, a unit of battery supplier and electronics giant LG, has introduced a wireless battery management system (BMS) it claims will boost EV range. Introduced in February, and first spotted by Charged EVs, the system is the first to marry wireless battery management with 800-volt electrical architecture, LG Innotek claims. The company aims.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In the first quarter of 2023, BMW brand sales in the US totaled 82,466 vehicles, an 11.9% increase from the 73,714 vehicles sold in the first quarter of 2022. BMW sold 6,588 battery electric vehicles, which accounts for 8% of total U.S. sales. In total, electrified vehicles (combined battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric), accounted for nearly 17% of US sales in Q1.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla’s new V4 Supercharger has started its initial rollout in Europe, and details are still continuing to spill out ahead of the first installations in the United States. The V4 Supercharger is Tesla’s latest iteration of its industry-leading EV charging network, and with the recent introduction of non-Tesla vehicle charging in the U.S. to qualify for government incentives, the automaker is going forward with some monumental changes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced a $156-million funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002997 ) that will advance high impact applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the US industrial sector. This funding opportunity represents follow-on investment to the $104-million funding opportunity released last September.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla Yoke Steering wheels are being replaced by round ones thanks to the automaker’s new retrofit kit that rolled out last month, and it is a pretty easy process to get the traditional wheel back. After Tesla made the Yoke steering standard on new Model S and Model X vehicles a few years back, drivers seemed split on what they’d prefer.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Sila , a California-based EV battery materials startup, announced today that its range-boosting silicon-based anodes, “Titan Silicon,” are now commercially available after beginning mass production. The upcoming Mercedes-Benz EQG G Wagon will be the first to feature the new battery material. more… The post Mercedes-Benz electric EQG G Wagon will be the first to use this range-boosting battery material appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla is taking an interesting approach with its Legal Department by building a “full-scale internal litigation and trial team,” according to General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the automaker, Brandon Ehrhart. Tesla’s Legal team has come to shape over the past few years after CEO Elon Musk said in mid-2022 that the company would build a “ hardcore litigation department ” that would be responsible for initiating and executing lawsuits.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 4, 2023

Kenya and the European Commission have reached an agreement for a €347.6 million financing arrangement for East Africa’s first dedicated electric bus rapid lane. The agreement was signed during a meeting between President William Ruto and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the European Commission Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla cut the prices of the Model Y and the Model 3 in Australia right after rolling out the Model Y Long Range down under. After releasing a stellar delivery and production report in the first quarter, Tesla rolled out the Model Y Long Range to two new markets : Japan and Australia. It isn’t stopping there, though. Recently Tesla also rolled out significant price cuts for the Model Y and Model 3 in Australia.

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Innovation News Network

APRIL 4, 2023

Greater 5G connectivity is vital to economic growth in the 21st Century, as half of the world's population is still without internet access. The post Looking to the stratosphere can help solve our 5G connectivity conundrum appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Agricultural giant John Deere’s new tech, ExactShot, enables farmers to use electric robots to plant and fertilize seeds at an incredibly fast and precise pace. more… The post Here’s how John Deere’s electric robots can plant 6,600 seeds in 3 seconds appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2023

Off the coast of Portugal near Lisbon, a vast underwater canyon tosses up some of nature’s fiercest waves at the cliffs at Nazaré Surfers set records here on dizzying curls that can unleash thousands of kilojoules of energy. In 2020, Sebastian Steudtner rode an 86-foot wave for nearly half a minute toward the Praia do Norte on surf.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Elon Musk is hyping up Tesla Cybertruck production as some still hold on to hope that Tesla might be underpromising to overdeliver. more… The post Elon Musk hypes up Tesla Cybertruck production appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2023

Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. It was described by observers as a “trainwreck” and an “ambush”. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla is going to be changing up the way it advertises its Sentry Mode feature in Germany following a lawsuit from the Federal Consumer Association (VZBV) after a July 2022 lawsuit came to a close today. Tesla was sued by the VZBV in July after it claimed the automaker did not correctly advertise its Sentry Mode feature, which helps record instances of vandalism or other events that occur near a vehicle.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Mini electric bicycles from the BMW brand may be here sooner than you’d think. That’s thanks to a new partnership with the French bicycle manufacturer Angell Mobility. more… The post Mini electric bikes from BMW could be coming as soon as this year appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Sila, a battery materials company, has released the specifications for their newest battery anode, which will be used in the upcoming Mercedes EQG. As automakers have continued to refine their development of electric vehicles, the quality of the materials they use, particularly within the vehicle’s battery, has increasingly grown in importance.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

European yacht broker MYSEA has announced the first sale of the AQUON One eco-catamaran – a solar electric yacht powered by the sun and hydrogen fuel cells with luxurious accommodations for eight to ten passengers without any emissions. more… The post This 64-foot hydrogen electric yacht uses solar and sea water to power itself with ‘unlimited range’ appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Newsweek has published its annual “World’s Greatest Disruptors” list for the automotive industry, notably excluding both Tesla and Elon Musk. No matter how you view Tesla CEO Elon Musk , his impact on the automotive industry and the world is clear, and at no time has it been more so than this year. Every significant automaker globally now plans to produce electric vehicles, and the man and company that started this process were Elon Musk and Tesla.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 4, 2023

A new research lab under the center will focus on discovering new functional and affordable materials. (Image credit: Samsung SDI) Samsung SDI, South Korea's third-largest battery maker, has opened a new battery research and development center in China to boost its technological competitiveness. Samsung SDI said Sunday it opened the new center, called SDI China Research and Development Center (SDIRC), in Shanghai on Saturday, according to several South Korean media reports.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2023

Less than a year after initially teasing its interior, the new EQE SUV from Mercedes-Benz is on the cusp of reaching customers for the first time. As one of the first Mercedes EVs completely assembled in the US, the EQE SUV has designed with Americans in mind and should do well in the market. Before it reaches dealers, I got the chance to travel to Portugal and experience several variations of this model for myself, below are my first impressions. more… The post Mercedes EQE SUV first drive: Lux

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Genesis has unveiled the GV80 electric SUV concept, which shows an unusual next step in performance EVs for the brand. Genesis has been on a mission to take on the world’s top luxury automotive brands since its inception, but it has never been closer to competing with the likes of BMW and Mercedes than now. With the entrance of its first electric offerings, including the G80 sedan and GV70 SUV , the brand is battling with the best for dominance in the luxury EV market.

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The Driven EV News

APRIL 4, 2023

EVs tipped to grab 35 pct share of new car sales in China - the world's biggest market - this year, precipitating a crisis for petrol and diesel car makers. The post EVs to grab 35% share of world’s biggest car market as crisis looms for legacy brands appeared first on The Driven.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Ford has released its sales report for the first quarter of the year, showing the company remains on track to outpace traditional rivals. Ford has been moving quickly to introduce electric vehicles that Americans want to buy, but this task has been far from easy due to consistent supply snarls. Nonetheless, the Blue Oval’s sales report for the first quarter of the year shows it is on the right track, set to overtake its traditional rivals, and maybe eventually challenge the likes of Tesla.

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