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Survey suggests lack of experience with EVs is slowing adoption

Green Car Reports

Car shoppers' lack of experience with EVs is still holding back adoption, a new Consumer Reports survey suggests. The nationally representative survey of 9,030 American consumers—80% of whom said they owned a non-hybrid gasoline vehicle—was conducted in late June and July 2023. Seven in 10 respondents expressed some level of interest.

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A Native American tribe is building a $1B solar farm in Colorado

Electrek

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is going to build the Sun Bear Solar Project, one of the US’s largest solar farms, in Colorado.

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January 2024 Breaks Global EV Sales Record: Take That, Haters

CleanTechnica EVs

Despite some recent doom and gloom headlines, EV sales continue to break records and the railway electrification code is beginning to crack. The post January 2024 Breaks Global EV Sales Record: Take That, Haters appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

Cars That Think

Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business Machines Corp. And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think.

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

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When did Republicans turn against EVs, and will the tide turn?

Green Car Reports

EV bashing has become a regular Republican position and talking point, but it hasn't always been this way. In a recent InsideEVs article, Detroit-based Republican and campaign consultant Mike Murphy discussed the results of a poll of 600 voters on EVs. Like many other current political issues, it shows a deep partisan divide, in this case with.

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BYD secures license deal with Ford and GM supplier to use its LFP battery packs for EVs

Electrek

Leading global EV maker BYD is making big moves to stay on top of the market. Its latest deal gives Ford and GM supplier BorgWarner rights to its BYD Blade battery packs.

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What It’s Like to Eat a Robot

Cars That Think

Odorigui is a type of Japanese cuisine in which people consume live seafood while it’s still moving, making movement part of the experience. You may have some feelings about this (I definitely do), but from a research perspective, getting into what those feelings are and what they mean isn’t really practical. To do so in a controlled way would be both morally and technically complicated, which is why Japanese researchers have started developing robots that can be eaten as they move , wriggling a

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Safety experts: EVs are too heavy for US guardrails

Green Car Reports

EVs tend to weigh more than comparable internal-combustion models, which may require a rethink of highway guardrail designs, according to a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) study. For it, researchers conducted what they claim are the first-ever crash tests specifically looking at EVs and guardrails. The tests showed that guardrails.

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Solar + battery storage will make up 81% of new US electric generating capacity in 2024

Electrek

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports today that 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity is coming online in 2024 – here’s how it breaks down.

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Tesla And BYD Had 35% Of The Global EV Market In 2023

InsideEVs

The two market leaders gained advantage over the rest of the market especially in the all-electric car segment.

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

Brief

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Tesla and Elon Musk to appeal $56B pay package decision

Teslarati

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have said they will appeal the decision to rescind his $56 billion pay package, as a Delaware Judge ruled last month that the payday was too lucrative and not in the best interest of investors after a shareholder opposed it. Tesla and Musk will ask Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick to pause her ruling, which eliminated the CEO’s possibility of collecting a $56 billion pay package that rewarded him for reaching various tranches that pushed for com

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Lucid Air price cut, Lancia Ypsilon EV, Civic-sized Sony-Honda EV: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Sony and Honda may be working together on a Civic-sized EV. Lancia rolls out the start of an EV revival. Rivian shines some light on the R2. And Lucid cuts prices. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Thursday, Lucid cut prices on the 2024 Air lineup. Affecting all but the top-performance, tri-motor Sapphire version, the very long-range.

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BYD is launching its cheapest EV in South America, starting at $20,000

Electrek

Chinese EV leader BYD is launching its cheapest electric car, the Seagull, in South America. The BYD Seagull will go by the Dolphin Mini overseas and will start at $20,100 (99,800 BRL).

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Ford Killed Its Small Cars. Now It Says Small, Profitable EVs Are A Must

InsideEVs

Ford doubled-down on trucks and SUVs. Now it's realizing smaller might be better.

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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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Disney’s Newest Robot Demonstrates Collaborative Cuteness

Cars That Think

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. If Disney’s history of storytelling has taught us anything, it’s to never underestimate the power of a great sidekick. Even though sidekicks aren’t the stars of the show, they provide life and energy and move the story along in important ways.

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Study: EV drivers want gas-station perks at charging stops

Green Car Reports

When it comes to charging stations, EV drivers want the same amenities drivers currently get at gas station, a new AutoPacific study found. The AutoPacific EV Consumer Insights Study asked over 7,200 "future EV acceptors," defined by the consulting and market-research firm as "those who either intend to purchase or will consider purchasing an EV.

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Elon Musk claims fatal crash was not on ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ after Tesla said the logs were lost

Electrek

Elon Musk has claimed that a fatal crash reported by The Washington Post yesterday was not on ‘Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta’ after Tesla told the police that they couldn’t confirm it because the logs were lost. Now, he goes as far as claiming that FSD Beta would have saved the Tesla employee.

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Can the fossil fuel car lobby run a 2010 anti-mining tax style fear campaign in 2023? Unlikely

The Driven EV News

The fossil car lobby is promising another "mining tax" campaign against new emission standards. But the Japanese car makers do not appear to have the support of their peers. The post Can the fossil fuel car lobby run a 2010 anti-mining tax style fear campaign in 2023? Unlikely appeared first on The Driven.

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Open-Source Security Chip Released

Cars That Think

The first commercial silicon chip that includes open-source, built-in hardware security was announced today by the OpenTitan coalition. This milestone represents another step in the growth of the open hardware movement. Open hardware has been gaining steam since the development of the popular open-source processor architecture RISC-V RISC-V gives an openly available prescription for a how a computer can operate efficiently at the most basic level.

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Stellantis adopts SAE J3400—yes, the Tesla charge port

Green Car Reports

Stellantis is the latest automaker to adopt Tesla's North America Charging Standard (NACS) port for EV fast charging—but the automaker's announcement of it, made Monday, downplayed any connection to Tesla to a point that EV shoppers and longtime Tesla fans alike might find absurd. A Stellantis press release doesn't mention Tesla or NACS at.

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Tesla plans new world’s largest Supercharger, a glimpse at the future of charging

Electrek

Tesla is planning to build a new world’s largest Supercharger station, and it might give us a glimpse at the future of electric car charging.

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Tesla Cybertruck rescues Ford F-150 that got stuck in snow

Teslarati

The Tesla Cybertruck is not a perfect vehicle, and it has been subjected to much mockery over the past months for its alleged failings. These include the all-electric pickup truck’s alleged incapability in snowy conditions, which were partly pushed by videos of the Cybertruck getting stuck in snow and being rescued by other pickup trucks. The narrative surrounding the Cybertruck’s alleged “useless” off-road capabilities has been so notable that a number of media outlets have dubbed the all-elect

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Shell Shuts Down Its US Hydrogen Filling Stations

CleanTechnica EVs

Shell has decided to close all its hydrogen refueling stations for light duty vehicles in California, a blow to fuel cell car drivers. The post Shell Shuts Down Its US Hydrogen Filling Stations appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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2025 Honda CR-V Fuel Cell plug-in power-sharing feature previewed

Green Car Reports

The 2025 Honda CR-V Fuel Cell will include a plug-in power-sharing feature, the automaker revealed with a short video that also offers the best look yet at the crossover's design. The video shows a camouflaged CR-V Fuel Cell being used to power a coffeemaker at a roadside stop. In what some automakers term vehicle-to-load, or V2L, it's plugged.

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To extend a lithium-metal EV battery’s life, just drain it and let it sit, find Stanford scientists

Electrek

Stanford University researchers found that the best way to extend the life of a lithium-metal EV battery is to drain it and let it rest for a few hours.

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Tesla prices have decreased by more than one-fifth, EVs down 10% over the past year

Teslarati

Prices of Tesla electric vehicles have been slashed by more than one-fifth year-over-year, while the entire EV industry has slashed prices by over 10 percent. Although the U.S. new vehicle market slowed down in terms of sales in January, prices are lower, and incentives are higher, meaning things should pick up as the year goes on. For EVs, the average transaction price managed to drop 10.8 percent in January 2024 compared to the same month a year prior.

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Latin America EV Sales Report, Part 3: Leaders on the Podium (Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica)

CleanTechnica EVs

And so we get to the last part of our report, regarding the three countries leading the region in EV. [continued] The post Latin America EV Sales Report, Part 3: Leaders on the Podium (Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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VW’s Scout EV brand bows, around $2B US plant and truck nostalgia

Green Car Reports

Scout Motors on Thursday announced it has broken ground on a $2 billion plant in South Carolina that could eventually produce up to 200,000 EVs per year. The facility in Blythewood, “near major cities and talent hubs,” is also near the ports of Charleston and Savannah, and it’s possible that a portion of the plant’s output.

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A massive US solar panel maker just went all in on panel recycling

Electrek

Solar panels made in the US’s largest silicon-based solar panel factory will now be recycled, thanks to a new partnership.

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BMW i3 Owner Quoted Over $70,000 for New Battery

The Truth About Cars

Last year, the owner of a 2015 BMW i3 REx was reportedly quoted over $71,000 to have a new battery pack installed. For reference, that particular model would have retailed somewhere around $50,000 brand new. While we’ve seen some staggering high prices being entertained for EVs in need of a new battery pack this has to be one of more egregious examples on record.

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The Toyota bZ4X Is Depreciating Massively. But Why?

InsideEVs

We spoke with two automotive experts to find out what's going on with the e-TNGA EV prices.

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Kia dealers are already gouging away on EV9 electric SUV prices

Green Car Reports

Price gouging has already hit one of the most anticipated new EVs of the year—the 2024 Kia EV9. CarsDirect reports that national dealer inventory data currently shows EV9 markups of up to $7,000 over MSRP. One dealership confirmed to the website that every EV9 on its lot had a $7,000 markup, in fact. Another advertised what was effectively a.

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BYD Yangwang U9 electric supercar launching next week with 0-60 mph sprint in 2 secs

Electrek

A new electric supercar will hit the market next week. BYD will officially launch its new Yangwang U9 electric supercar on February 25. The new EV supercar can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds.

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US EV Sales Up 385% Since 2019, Normal “ICE” Vehicle Sales Down 14%

CleanTechnica EVs

We recently produced several exclusive reports on US electric vehicle sales and overall US auto industry sales trends. Via those. [continued] The post US EV Sales Up 385% Since 2019, Normal “ICE” Vehicle Sales Down 14% appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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