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Volvo Trucks had 42% market share of heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe in 2021

Green Car Congress

New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. In 2021 the company took orders, including letters of intent to buy, for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. The international trucking industry is undergoing a transformation towards more sustainable transport as sales of heavy battery electric trucks are starting to pick up, with Europe in the lead.

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It’s easier to buy a Kia EV6 than a Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here’s why

Green Car Reports

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6 are two of the hottest electric vehicle introductions of this past year. Both models are built on the same leading-edge E-GMP platform for EVs. Both brands share the same Hyundai Motor Company parent and are part of the same overarching plan to electrify. But if you happen to be in a region that’s not.

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Tesla announces it has produced 1 million next-gen 4680 battery cells

Electrek

Tesla has announced that it has produced 1 million of its next-generation 4680 battery cell at its pilot factory in California. The announcement comes as Tesla is expected to start deliveries of its new Model Y equipped with its 4680 cell and structural battery pack. more… The post Tesla announces it has produced 1 million next-gen 4680 battery cells appeared first on Electrek.

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Tesla manufactured its one millionth 4680 battery cell in January

Teslarati

Tesla announced today on Twitter that it had successfully manufactured the one-millionth 4680 battery cell at the Kato Road pilot facility in January. Tesla’s 4680 battery cell is one of the company’s most significant developments in its history. The cell was the primary focus of Tesla’s Battery Day event in September 2020 , where Tesla detailed the advantages of the new cell and unveiled a new battery pack structure to increase vehicle rigidity and safety.

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

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Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

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Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas. This agreement is a key component in Nacero’s plan to make its Penwell facility the first and largest supplier of lower and net-zero lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline for everyday Americ

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Nissan and Infiniti announce US-built EVs due in 2025

Green Car Reports

Nissan is planning to build two fully electric vehicles at its Canton, Mississippi plant, starting in 2025, the company revealed Thursday. One will be a Nissan-brand vehicle, the other the first U.S.-market electric vehicle for Infiniti. The two models were shown briefly in concept form, obscured, but enough to see that the Nissan concept might be.

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

Cars That Think

It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will unlock the true potential of AI. Synthetic data is generated instead of collected, and the consultancy company Gartner has estimated that 60 percent of data used to train AI systems will be synthetic.

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ANA and Joby to establish eVTOL ridesharing service in Japan; Toyota joining for ground integration

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ANA Holdings and Joby Aviation are forming a partnership that will see Japan’s largest airline join with Joby to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) also joined the partnership, with the intention of exploring opportunities such as ground-based transportation. Joby’s all-electric aircraft performing a flight test near Big Sur, California.

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Tesla tumbles as a brand, Ford Mustang Mach-E named EV pick in annual CR rankings

Green Car Reports

Tesla tumbled down Consumer Reports' latest automotive brand rankings, while the Ford Mustang Mach-E replaced the Model 3 as CR's top-rated EV. Tesla fell seven spots to 23rd overall in the 2022 CR automotive brand rankings released Thursday. CR said that was mainly due to the new steering yoke in the Model S and Model X, which lowered their.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company submits plans for 6.2-mile Loop system in Miami

Teslarati

It appears that Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, The Boring Company, is looking to secure its next big project. As per a recent report, The Boring Company has submitted a proposal to build the North Miami Beach Loop, a 6.2-mile transport tunnel system in Miami, FL. The proposed system would feature seven stations along State Road 826, between the Golden Glades Transit Center and Sunny Isles Beach.

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

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum.

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Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

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Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. Using this technique, they report orders of magnitude higher turnover frequencies for hydrocarbon formation compared to conventional catalysts. A paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Study suggests corn-based ethanol is worse for global warming than gasoline

Green Car Reports

Corn-based ethanol is mixed with United States gasoline supplies to lower transportation-related emissions, but a new study suggests ethanol may be worse for the environment than straight gasoline. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradicts previous research commissioned by the U.S. Department of.

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Tesla Model Y production units sighted ready for delivery at Giga Texas

Teslarati

Tesla Giga Texas is raring to go, as shown by what appears to be Model Y production vehicles waiting for transport beside the factory. The Model Y vehicles are all covered, seemingly waiting for delivery day. . Based on photos shared by drone operator Jeff Roberts , Tesla Giga Texas has a little over 100 Model Y production vehicles parked on site. Most of the cars were covered, but a few were visible.

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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 Model Y = Top Selling SUV in California in 2021

CleanTechnica EVs

It’s hard to believe, even as someone who has been placed firmly on the Tesla bull list for a decade, but the Tesla Model Y ended 2021 as the top selling SUV or truck in California! That is across all types of SUVs and trucks. The Model Y outsold the #2 Toyota RAV4, a much […].

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Rheinmetall wins two-digit-million-euro orders for fuel cell components

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Rheinmetall AG has received major orders in the two-digit-million-euro range to supply fuel cell components. Leading fuel cell manufacturers have turned to the company for hydrogen recirculation blowers and cathode flaps. The order package marks a further success for the Group’s hydrogen strategy as it systematically expands into alternative drive technologies.

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2023 Mercedes AMG EQE electric sedan puts the priority on performance

Green Car Reports

The 2023 Mercedes-AMG EQE sedan was unveiled Tuesday as the second volume-produced all-electric model from Mercedes-Benz's AMG performance division. AMG already launched a sportier version of the Mercedes-Benz EQS, so now it's moving on to the smaller EQE sedan, which is due this spring as a 2023 model. The AMG version, formally titled.

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Tesla is not the most recalled automotive company by the NHTSA in 2022

Teslarati

Despite Tesla’s four recalls so far in 2022, the automaker is not the most recalled car company in the United States. Recalls are handled by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, or NHTSA. NHTSA data tracks the date, manufacturer, subject matter, component, recall type, description, consequences, and affected population of any recall sent out by the agency.

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Everyone Should Pay a “Solar Tax”

Energy Institute at HAAS

Monthly connection fees are good for the climate. Regular readers of this blog are well aware that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) published a proposed decision on reforming net … Continue Reading Everyone Should Pay a “Solar Tax”.

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

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In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. Modern laptops are notoriously difficult ( and sometimes impossible ) to repair, a problem Luna’s designers address by reducing the number of screws to four and avoiding permanent adhesives. Instead, many components lock into place.

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Aptera is tuning its 1,000-mile EV—and it can outrun some sports cars

Green Car Reports

Aptera recently provided an update on development of its electric 3-wheeler, releasing a pair of videos showing a test mule being put through its paces at California's Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. The stripped-down vehicle shown here is a "beta" prototype, representing the second of four phases of development, Aptera noted. It follows the initial.

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Elon Musk reiterates Tesla’s local roots after Biden says he wants to make “Buy American” a reality

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US President Joe Biden may have already proven that he can say the word “Tesla” in public, but he may still need some prodding when it comes to acknowledging that the Texas-based EV maker is a true-blue American company. This was something that Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted recently when he responded to the US President’s EV-related post on Twitter.

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Magna Makes It Easy For OEMs To Electrify Vehicles One Piece At A Time

CleanTechnica EVs

Over the last decade, the rise of the humble lithium ion battery has catapulted electric vehicles into the consciousness of the global automotive world. One area electric vehicles and combustion vehicles alike struggle with is cold weather. Extreme cold pushes all aspects of an electric vehicle to the limits and in different ways than their […].

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The Coming Construction Boom

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For the rest of this century, humankind will be building cities at an unprecedented pace. The world population is projected to increase from 7.9 billion to more than 10 billion, and much of that increase will occur in parts of the world that lag in infrastructure. Everywhere, people will expect to catch up, and then surpass. China is a fantastic example of how this can happen in just 30 years.

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2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrid goes 26 miles on a charge, gets 23 mpg on gasoline

Green Car Reports

Official EPA electric range and efficiency ratings for the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrid are in, and they come close to Jeep's estimates. The plug-in hybrid SUV gets an EPA-rated 26 miles of electric range from its 17-kwh battery pack, with an efficiency rating of 56 MPGe combined. Jeep previously said it was targeting 25 miles of.

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Tesla factory delays show ‘how we stand in our own way’: German industry experts sound off

Teslarati

Water pumping approvals. Bats in trees. An empty tank. These are just a few things that have stopped Tesla’s progress in Germany as it attempts to launch its first electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Europe. It has been a long and trying road for the electric automaker, which has attempted to surf through the waves of German bureaucratic red tape since early 2020.

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Green Trucking Watershed Moment As EU Adopts New Tolling Rules

CleanTechnica EVs

Green Trucking: By May 2023, hauliers operating zero-emissions trucks must be given discounts of at least 50% on road tolls. EU member states have until 2023 to implement a new system of road tolls which give big incentives for zero-emissions trucks after MEPs voted to adopt new legislation today. Transport & Environment (T&E) hailed the […].

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos.

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Study: Hydrogen fuel-cell opportunity window has passed for cars, diminished for trucks

Green Car Reports

The moment for hydrogen fuel-cell passenger cars to play a major fuel in transportation has passed, and the window of opportunity is closing for heavy-duty trucks as well, according to a new study published as "comment" in Nature Electronics (via Charged EVs). The study's author, from Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and.

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Tesla offers free Supercharging for select sites in Europe

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Tesla is offering free Supercharging for select sites in Europe to “avoid the rush this winter holiday.” Free Supercharging will be available along travel routes in France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden. The EV manufacturer’s free charging announcement did not specify whether non-Tesla vehicles would be eligible for the offering. Tesla opened its Superchager Network to other electric vehicle brands late last year.

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Profile of Electric Vehicles in CT

EV Club of CT

Interactive EV Dashboard Note: These data are obtained via a Freedom of Information Act Request from the Department of Motor Vehicles. The data are registrations, not sales, and represent all light-duty electric vehicles registered in. Read more.

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Porsche Taycan Turbo S Can't Hang With 1,000+ HP Tesla And Lucid

InsideEVs

The 750-hp Taycan appears to be standing still next to the 1,020-hp Model S Plaid and 1,111-hp Air Dream Edition Performance.

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First drive review: Volkswagen ID.4 AWD shows the way toward EV fun for millions

Green Car Reports

Modularity has been a mantra for Volkswagen as it ramps up toward its stated goal of “electric vehicles for millions, not millionaires.” Its MEB platform is a flexible foundation for the ID.4 electric crossover you can get now, for the eagerly anticipated electric Microbus reboot, and for many more EVs yet to arrive. The approach helps.

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SpaceX’s South Texas Starship factory has a new tallest building

Teslarati

Less than four months after construction began, the newest addition to SpaceX’s South Texas Starship factory is now the facility’s tallest building. While substantially shorter than the Starship launch tower SpaceX has constructed a few miles down the highway and likely still a few months away from completion, Starbase’s new ‘wide bay’ became the tallest on-site manufacturing building on February 17th, 2022.

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