Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Taiwan-based ProLogium has chosen France as the location for its first large-scale solid-state battery manufacturing facility outside of Taiwan. ProLogium will invest a total of €5.2 billion to set up a 48 GWh gigafactory and an R&D center. This major investment project aims to facilitate supply chain localization, R&D activities, and the manufacturing of next-generation batteries in Europe for ProLogium.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2023

A robotic EV charger will be put to the test at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) in the coming months as part of a pilot program for innovative charging solutions. Developed by EV Charge Safe, the robot charger, dubbed Ziggy, goes to a car in need of charging plug-ins, and then returns to a staging area for recharging. The mobile unit.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2023

Tesla is keeping dreams of the Cyberquad ATV alive as the automaker filed a new trademark for the name last week. In 2019 at the Cybertruck unveiling event, Tesla also showed off a new ATV design that was inspired by the all-electric pickup. The Cyberquad would be an all-electric ATV that would feature the same look and style as the Cybertruck, and would be an ideal sidekick to the pickup for those who planned to use the vehicle for off-road applications.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. And so it is with the current shock and awe over large language models, such as GPT-4 from OpenAI. It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2023

Bremer Strassenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered 35 all-electric eCitaro G low-floor articulated buses from Mercedes-Benz with the latest NMC 3 (NMC: lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide) battery technology. These buses will join the 20 eCitaro solo buses that have been driving on the streets of Bremen since 2022. The vehicles will be gradually rolled out over the course of 2024.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2023

The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV will achieve an EPA-estimated range of 450 miles in base work truck (WT) form, the automaker said Friday in a press release. Chevy mentioned a 400-mile range when the Silverado EV was first shown at the 2022 CES, but "extensive development and testing unlocked the increased 450-mile range," a spokesperson from the.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 18, 2023

Electric cars have for the longest time been significantly more expensive than their ICE equivalents. Consumers have been patiently waiting for the day more electric vehicles become competitive from an upfront purchase price point of view.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2023

Honda revealed its second fully electric vehicle, the e:Ny1, at its European Media Event in Offenbach, Germany. It is the brand’s second pure EV to arrive in the region, following on from the Honda e city car, and is designed to meet the growing customer demand for all-electric B-segment SUVs. The e:Ny1 also debuts an all-new electric identity for Honda, with white ‘H’ badges featuring around the vehicle, including the nose badge, wheel center caps and steering wheel.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2023

Toyota on Thursday revealed a new generation of its mid-size Tacoma pickup truck that, at last, improves pretty much everything about the lineup—and adds a hybrid—while remaining in a package that everyone will instantly identify as a Tacoma. The new Tacoma won’t quite satisfy everyone. Although with much more tech inside and.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2023

SpaceX plans to launch two Falcon 9 rockets hours apart from Florida and California. Starlink group 6-3 will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a planned launch time of 12:41 AM ET (04:41 UTC) and from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Iridium OneWeb rideshare launch at 6:19 AM PT (13:19 UTC). First up, SpaceX will launch booster 1076 on its 5th flight to deliver 22 Starlink V2 mini-satellites to a 43 degree orbit inclination.

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MAY 18, 2023

Volkswagen—in conjunction with The National Day Calendar—will celebrate the first ever International Volkswagen Bus Day. Paying homage to a global automotive icon, the inaugural celebration takes Type 2 (VW Bus) fans for a ride into the future with the debut of the three-row version of Volkswagen’s all-electric ID. Buzz in Huntington Beach, California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

To mark the 20 th anniversary of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA) joint venture, Milan Nedeljković, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Production, announced local production of the NEUE KLASSE in China. Following the market launch in 2025, models of the next vehicle generation will also be produced from 2026 onwards by BBA in Shenyang.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2023

Mercedes-Benz plans to introduce luxurious mid-size electric passenger vans for the U.S. and China for the first time, along with factory-built RVs, it revealed on Tuesday. The announcement was part of the company’s most comprehensive look yet at its next-generation “ EA” electric architectures. All of these Mercedes-Benz.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2023

Kevin O’Leary of “Shark Tank” fame recently noted that the Tesla Cybertruck would probably result in another big shift for the electric vehicle maker. This was despite the Cybertruck being, for all intents and purposes, an “ugly” vehicle. During a conversation with Yahoo Finance Live , O’Leary stated that the Cybertruck is an extremely compelling vehicle.

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MAY 15, 2023

Despite the common fear campaigns around EVs catching fire, the data says that petrol and diesel cars are far more likely to catch fire than EVs. The post Petrol and diesel cars 20 times more likely to catch fire than EVs appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2023

Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. The material is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Current electrolysis techniques to split water rely heavily on platinum as a catalyst, which is very expensive and just not feasible to use on a large scale because of its price, said UTEP Mechanical Engineering Professo

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2023

If you choose to lease, the Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid might cost significantly less to drive than the Prius hybrid—depending on where you live and which incentives Toyota might be factoring in. As partner site CarsDirect points out, the Toyota Prius Prime SE has a lease payment of just $435 a month, with $435 due at signing.

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Teslarati

MAY 17, 2023

During the 2023 Cyber Roundup (Annual Shareholder Meeting), CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is developing two new vehicles that would be produced at a scale far beyond what the company could achieve today. A silhouette of one of these vehicles was also shared during Musk’s presentation. Considering Tesla’s goal of achieving an output of 20 million vehicles per year, expectations were high that the electric vehicle maker would be releasing new products that could be produced at hig

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2023

In a previous article series, I compared the lifetime emissions of various real EVs and PHEVs on the road, as well as several hypothetical EVs. I even compared power sources (renewables vs. dirtier grids) to see how that all stacks up.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

The US Geological Survey (USGS) will invest more than $5.8 million to map critical-mineral resources in Alaska in partnership with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. The funding comes largely from a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investment in the USGS Mineral Resources Program’s Earth Mapping Resources Initiative ( Earth MRI ), which provides more than $74 million in new mapping funding each year to modernize the understanding of the US’ fundamental geologic framework and i

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Green Car Reports

MAY 14, 2023

Rivian reported Friday that thanks to a continued production ramp the wait time for new orders on its R1T is now down to 14 days or less in some cases. The electric truck maker is catching up on a production backlog that once looked like it might take years to work through, and it’s made significant headway—to the degree that some.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2023

Tesla has launched its 2023.12.9 software update for its vehicles worldwide, showing that it remains an innovation leader, even as an established company. While Tesla continues to astonish its customers with the regularity of its software updates, perhaps more remarkable is its ability to continually innovate on its already industry-leading software experience.

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 put Ukrainian communications in a literal jam: Just before the invasion, Russian hackers knocked out Viasat satellite ground receivers across Europe. Then entrepreneur Elon Musk swept in to offer access to Starlink , SpaceX’s growing network of low-Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites. Musk soon reported that Starlink was suffering from jamming attacks and software countermeasures.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Lightning eMotors signed a contract with Macnab EV Sales Corp. to deliver 126 vehicles to the Canadian commercial vehicle distributor by the end of 2023. Deliveries of Lightning’s ZEV3 vans to Macnab have already begun. The full order of 126 vehicles includes ZEV3 cargo and passenger van configurations and ZEV4 shuttle buses. Macnab has been a leader in the Canadian commercial transportation industry since 1935.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2023

In Utah, there might not be the use case or EV ownership density yet to support charging that's closely spaced to ease range anxiety and provide redundancy. So a utility is stepping up. Rocky Mountain Power on Wednesday announced that it will install DC fast chargers at 20 sites in Utah, with support from Electrify Commercial, a unit of charging.

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Teslarati

MAY 16, 2023

At the recent Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, Elon Musk reiterated the idea that the Tesla Cybertruck will feature an exoskeleton. He also teased new features that are coming to the all-electric pickup truck. Elon Musk provided a short update about the Cybertruck and the challenges Tesla has faced with production at the 2023 Cyber Roundup. Tesla’s pickup truck is truly a labor of love as the vehicle is something that even Musk admits might not be extremely popular with the general public.

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Cars That Think

MAY 14, 2023

Vint Cerf, recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor , has this advice to engineers starting out their careers: “If you really want to do something big, get help, and preferably from people who are smarter than you are.” “Be humble, because unless you approach things with the understanding that you really don’t know exactly how to make it all work, you may overlook possibilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, announced that Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project. The project is focused on providing the Seadrift site with safe, reliable, zero carbon emissions power and steam as existing energy and steam assets near their end-of-life.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 15, 2023

Ford last week announced that it’s started a research project that examines hydrogen as a potential energy source for its E-Transit commercial vans. The three-year trial project, based in the UK, will look at whether it can deliver “enhanced zero-emission-driving range for E-Transit customers with energy-intensive use cases.” The.

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Teslarati

MAY 17, 2023

The Tesla Roadster was originally teased a few years ago alongside the Tesla Semi. The next-gen Tesla Roadster’s official launch remains a mystery, even though Tesla already delivered the first Semi class-8 trucks to PepsiCo When asked directly about updates on the next-gen Tesla Roadster, Elon Musk noted that it was a fair, reasonable question. “We expect to complete the engineering and design of the next-gen Tesla Roadster this year,” he replied.

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Electrek

MAY 18, 2023

Elon Musk is hinting at the next-generation Tesla Roadster beating Rimac Nevara’s newly achieved performance records. more… The post Elon Musk hints at new Tesla Roadster beating Rimac Nevara’s new records appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

The BMW Group Technology Office USA in Mountain View and Meta’s Reality Labs Research have demonstrated for the first time the ability to display stable virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) content accurately to passengers in a fast-moving car, even when making turns, going over speed bumps, and accelerating. By integrating Meta Quest ’s tracking system with BMW’s sensor data, the researchers enabled a series of stable “car-locked” gaming, entertainment, productivity, and meditation exper

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2023

Ford on Monday unveiled a versatile small EV that won't make it to the U.S, but could be a template for success in America. The Ford E-Tourneo Courier is a small van similar to (but even smaller than) the Transit Connect that was recently withdrawn from this market, but with an all-electric powertrain. It's scheduled to von on sale in Europe in.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2023

Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) Giga Texas won over analysts at Deutsche Bank with its robust manufacturing prowess after a tour was given to the firm by the automaker. However, there’s a catch with the positives that would affect the short-term outlook for the company. Emmanuel Rosner of Deutsche Bank walked away impressed by Giga Texas’s layout, which is “well designed and runs very efficiently,” according to a report from Street Insider.

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