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Review: 2024 Chevy Equinox EV delivers 300 miles for under $40k

Green Car Reports

The 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV is one of this year’s most important new electric vehicles. Nominally a compact crossover SUV with 285 to 319 miles of EPA-estimated range, it’s priced competitively, with prices starting at $43,295 (including a mandatory $1,395 delivery fee). And an entry-level trim starting at $34,995 remains promised.

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2026 Chevy Bolt Will Be 'Most Affordable' EV On The Market, GM Says

InsideEVs

With NACS and an LFP battery, the next-gen Bolt could be an absolute grand slam for GM.

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Top US coal producer Wyoming just approved a $1.2B solar farm

Electrek

Wyoming just approved its largest solar farm – 771 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar plus battery storage.

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44% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — April 2024 Sales Report

CleanTechnica EVs

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 703,000 sales (in a 1.6-million-unit overall market). That’s up 27% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 10%, while PHEVs did even better, jumping 65% in April. Breaking down plugin sales. [continued] The post 44% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — April 2024 Sales Report appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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VW plans 2027 debut for $22,000 EV for Europe, beyond

Green Car Reports

Volkswagen on Tuesday announced a goal of launching an EV priced at 20,000 euros—equivalent to $22,000 at current exchange rates—in 2027. This affordable EV is aimed at the European market, with a high degree of manufacturing and supply-chain localization entailed in the project, VW said in a press release. This will allow for shorter.

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China's Plug-In Car Sales Increased To 44% Market Share In April 2024

InsideEVs

The BYD Seagull outpaced the Tesla Model Y and became the top all-electric model in China last month.

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Largest rollout of public kerbside EV chargers in Australia unveiled in NSW

The Driven EV News

NSW unveils what it says is the largest rollout of kerbside EV chargers in Australia, a day after announcing home battery rebates. The post Largest rollout of public kerbside EV chargers in Australia unveiled in NSW appeared first on The Driven.

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2024 Jeep Wagoneer S EV compares to Grand Cherokee, tops 300 miles

Green Car Reports

Jeep’s first electric vehicle for North America may have been teased for several years, but now it’s been revealed in production form—and with a fall 2024 arrival date, it’s just around the corner. The Wagoneer S is only offered as a battery electric model, with 600 hp and 617 lb-ft of torque, combined, and a 0-60 mph time.

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Kia EV9 American Production Starts In Georgia

InsideEVs

Local assembly of the Kia EV9 should help it qualify for the federal tax credit and soften its rather hefty sticker price.

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I just swapped a Tesla Model 3 for a Model Y and Elon Musk’s brutal layoffs ruined the experience

Electrek

I turned in a 2021 Tesla Model 3 and leased a 2024 Model Y, and I learned firsthand how badly Tesla’s layoffs have affected morale and customer service.

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

Brief

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1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands

Cars That Think

Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and computational power. For LLMs that are cheap, fast, and environmentally friendly, they’ll need to shrink, ideally small enough to run directly on devices like cell phones. Researchers are finding ways to do just that by drastically rounding off the many high-precision numbers that store their memories to equal just 1 or -1.

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GM exec: 2026 Chevy Bolt EV will be most affordable US EV

Green Car Reports

When the Chevrolet Bolt EV returns next year it will be the most affordable EV in the U.S., Marissa West, president of General Motors North America, said in a recently published interview with Automotive News. GM discontinued the Bolt EV at the end of 2023 but has since then emphasized it's coming back. The next-generation Bolt EV will share.

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Nissan Turns To Gigacasting To Slash Costs And Complexity Of Future EVs

InsideEVs

The automaker follows Tesla as it aims to reduce parts expenses by 10% and save a billion dollars in development costs.

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Toyota, Japanese rivals promise more efficient next-gen ICE engines amid the shift to EVs

Electrek

Despite the market moving toward EVs, Toyota , Subaru, and Mazda are committed to developing next-generation ICE engines. The new engines are “tailored to electrification” with integrated EV components.

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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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Will Scaling Solve Robotics?

Cars That Think

This post was originally published on the author’s personal blog. Last year’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) was the biggest CoRL yet, with over 900 attendees, 11 workshops, and almost 200 accepted papers. While there were a lot of cool new ideas (see this great set of notes for an overview of technical content), one particular debate seemed to be front and center: Is training a large neural network on a very large dataset a feasible way to solve robotics?

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Ford Mach-E GT review, VW ID.4 recall, wireless EV charging for fleets: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Does wireless EV charging make sense for commercial vehicle fleets? Is VW solving its earlier ID.4 display flickers and flaky controls with a recall remedy? And is the Mustang Mach-E GT worth the premium? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT goes quicker with a new rear motor from the F-150 Lightning, and.

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Genesis Will Use Lucid Electric Motors In Its Upcoming Electric Convertible: Report

InsideEVs

Lucid Motors already has deals with Aston Martin and Formula E, so it’s no surprise that other companies are reaching out.

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BYD’s workforce nearly doubles Toyota’s amid China’s booming EV market

Electrek

As EV sales surge in China, BYD’s workforce has expanded rapidly, adding nearly 500,000 employees since 2019. BYD’s workforce is now roughly double that of Toyota’s as China’s EV leader expands overseas.

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EV sales slowdown in the U.S. may not last long: Bloomberg

Teslarati

Reports of an electric vehicle (EV) sales slowdown this year have been a major focus for many automakers, but new data suggests that the downturn may not last as long as previously expected—and may not be as bad as many thought. In a report on Tuesday, Bloomberg said that Q1 sales data makes the supposed EV slowdown in the U.S. look more like a blip, as many automakers saw sales continue to increase year over year.

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Review: 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT goes with Lightning

Green Car Reports

The Mach-E is Ford’s only dedicated electric vehicle, with no gasoline equivalent. Yet it won’t let you, or anyone driving near you, mistake it for anything but a member of the Mustang family. In the 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, the design cues and prancing-horse logos still deal out an overstated hand of pony-car attitude. I reach.

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The 2024 Lucid Air Has Up To 516 Miles Of Range, Outstanding Efficiency

InsideEVs

The Lucid is still the EV range king, thanks to class-leading efficiency and a big battery.

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How to EMP-Proof a Building

Cars That Think

This year, the sun will reach solar maximum , a period of peak magnetic activity that occurs approximately once every 11 years. That means more sunspots and more frequent intense solar storms. Here on Earth, these result in beautiful auroral activity, but also geomagnetic storms and the threat of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), which can bring widespread damage to electronic equipment and communications systems.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk roasts shareholder group that opposes his pay package — but made 11x on their investment

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk roasted a shareholder group that is opposing his $56 billion pay package yet multiplied their investment due to his leadership. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, otherwise known as CalPERS, owned 183,343 shares of Tesla stock in 2018, according to filings. At the time of the 2018-2019 CalPERS Annual Investment Report, Tesla shares traded at just $14.90.

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Cadillac Optiq preview, $22,000 VW EV, hydrogen hybrid engines: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

VW gets on board with affordable EVs. Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda commit to a new generation of engines. And Cadillac’s most affordable EV makes its debut. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2025 Cadillac Optiq EV arrives later this year, and Green Car Reports recently got up close with it. All-wheel drive, a vast fixed-glass roof.

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A $16,000 American-Made EV? The U.S. Government Wants A Competition To Build One

InsideEVs

The sub-$10,000 BYD Seagull has made American automakers restless. A U.S. official has ideas on building our version of it.

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Jeep is launching a $25,000 EV in the US ‘very soon’ to revamp the rugged SUV brand

Electrek

Another low-cost electric vehicle is headed to the US. According to Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, Jeep plans to launch a $25,000 EV in the US “very soon.

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Is The Chevy Equinox The Affordable EV We’ve Been Waiting For?

CleanTechnica EVs

The Chevy Equinox EV presentation that I recently attended in Michigan emphasized the value of GM’s new crossover. In this piece, I compare the Chevy Equinox EV to its leading competitors. Chevy’s Presentation GM executives made the point that the reason they were coming out with the Equinox EV, Blazer. [continued] The post Is The Chevy Equinox The Affordable EV We’ve Been Waiting For?

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Versus cars, SUVs emit about 20% more CO2—EV or not

Green Car Reports

SUVs are bad for the environment regardless of their powertrain SUVs accounted for 48% of the global market in 2023 Larger SUVs are worse for the environment than smaller models Global SUV sales continue to grow and, EV or not, so do their emissions, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). SUVs accounted for a record 48% of global car.

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Volkswagen Dealers Say The ID.7 Wouldn’t Be Competitive In The U.S.

InsideEVs

Even though the ID.7 didn’t have an official price tag for the U.S., dealers feel like it would have been a $50,000+ EV.

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New York City is about to get its largest battery storage project

Electrek

New York City’s largest battery storage facility will replace a natural gas peaker plant unit retiring in 2025.

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90 Ultra-Fast Solar-Powered Chargers for Italy

CleanTechnica EVs

Atlante’s ultra-fast charging stations, designed by Bertone Design, equipped with solar panels and energy storage systems, will soon arrive on Italian highways to serve electric mobility Milan, Italy — Atlante, the company of NHOA Group dedicated to electric vehicles fast and ultra-fast charging network, has won the first tender in. [continued] The post 90 Ultra-Fast Solar-Powered Chargers for Italy appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Kia EV3 debut, Silverado EV review, Bolt EV settlement, ID.7 delay: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which electric SUV was teased as quicker than the Tesla Model Y Performance? How much real-world range do Teslas lose over the first three years? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 24, 2024. In a first drive of the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST, we found this big.

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Someone Drove A BYD PHEV 1,497 Miles Without Stopping For Fuel

InsideEVs

Journalists are already beating the BYD Qin L's claimed 1,300-mile range. They're just doing it slowly.

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Australian maker of battery integrated EV chargers hopes to succeed where Tritium failed

The Driven EV News

eLumina to launch manufacturing facilities in Gold Coast as it lands orders for its battery-integrated EV charging solutions, many to replace stock made by the collapsed Tritium. The post Australian maker of battery integrated EV chargers hopes to succeed where Tritium failed appeared first on The Driven.

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