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Hyundai recalls over 226K vehicles due to damaged circuit boards

Green Car Reports

Hybrids and plug-in hybrids are among 226,118 vehicles Hyundai is recalling in the U.S. over damaged circuit boards that could affect prevent rearview camera displays from working. The recall includes 2021 and 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid crossovers and Elantra Hybrid sedans, as well as 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe Plug-In Hybrids and non-hybrid versions.

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EV battery replacement will soon cost less than fixing a gas engine: study

Teslarati

A new study claims that replacing an electric vehicle battery will soon cost less than fixing the engine of a gas car. This is one of the most notable arguments that supporters of combustion engines use to attempt to disprove the effectiveness of electric vehicles. Recurrent found that the cost of electric vehicle batteries and where they are headed in terms of pricing is on pace for the replacement of an entire pack to be less than a gas engine repair by 2030.

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Tesla Cybertuck Line Workers Told To Stay Home: ‘No Need To Report To Work’

InsideEVs

It looks like there’s a demand problem for the electric pickup that allegedly had millions of reservations before going on sale.

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Lucid (LCID) just built its first Gravity electric SUV for delivery

Electrek

Lucid Motors (LCID) is celebrating a massive accomplishment after the first Gravity electric SUV rolled off the production line at its Casa Grande plant in Arizona on Thursday.

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

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Telo electric truck costs $41,520 for 260 miles of range

Green Car Reports

California-based Telo Trucks on Tuesday confirmed a lower base price for its space-efficient MT1 electric pickup. When the MT1 was unveiled in 2023, Telo said it would launch in dual-motor all-wheel drive form at a cost of $49,999 before incentives. The truck's configurator has now gone live and shows a single-motor rear-wheel drive base model.

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What Falling Sales? Plugin Vehicles Grew to a Record 1.74 Million Units in October!

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 36% in October 2024 compared to October 2023. There were 1.74 million registrations, which is a new record. BEVs were up by 23% YoY (year over year), to over one million units. Plugin hybrids did even better, jumping 65% YoY, its 5th record month. [continued] The post What Falling Sales? Plugin Vehicles Grew to a Record 1.74 Million Units in October!

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Norway breaks another EV record, nearly completing its EV transition

Electrek

More good news from EV mecca Norway, with November numbers showing more than 10,000 EVs were newly registered, bringing its tally to a truly impressive 93.6% of all new car registrations, showing that it’s EV transition is almost complete.

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Replacing an EV battery may cost less than fixing a gas engine by 2030

Green Car Reports

The potential high cost of EV battery replacements is a major worry for new-car shoppers, but that likely won't be the case for long, according to battery-analysis firm Recurrent. Recurrent, which produces battery health reports for used EVs, predicts that plummeting new-battery prices will make replacing a battery pack cheaper than repairing a.

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Japanese Car Sales Plummet In Southeast Asia As Chinese Cars Gain Market Share

CleanTechnica EVs

It may come as a surprise to some, but the US and Germany are not the only new car markets on Earth. Tons of new cars are sold every year in Southeast Asian countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Those markets have traditionally been ignored by German and US. [continued] The post Japanese Car Sales Plummet In Southeast Asia As Chinese Cars Gain Market Share appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air

Cars That Think

On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. It’s also home to many birds, which spend the majority of their time doing bird things. With a few exceptions, those bird things aren’t actually flying: Flying is a lot of work, and many birds have figured out that they can instead just walk around on the ground, where all the food tends to be, and not tire themselves out by having to get airborne over and over again.

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

Brief

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Tesla (TSLA) Megapacks will power France’s new largest battery system

Electrek

Tesla (TSLA) has secured a massive new Megapack order that will power France’s new largest energy storage system. TagEnergy announced.

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Electric Range Rover now undergoing hot-weather testing

Green Car Reports

Testing of an electric version of the Range Rover luxury SUV continues apace. Reservations for the electric vehicle, dubbed the Range Rover Electric, opened in late 2023, with deliveries slated to start next year. That will likely make it a 2026 model in the U.S. Before that can happen, Land Rover is conducting testing in extreme conditions to.

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Fortescue to build and test world’s most powerful electric fast charger

The Driven EV News

Fortescue has landed $10 million in ARENA funds to help build and test world's most powerful fast chargers for its planned fleet of giant electric haul trucks. The post Fortescue to build and test world’s most powerful electric fast charger appeared first on The Driven.

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US Postal Workers Love Their New Electric Mail Trucks!

CleanTechnica EVs

New electric mail trucks have been spotted in communities across the US. It’s been all smiles for carriers since the US Postal Service launched its new fleet of electric mail trucks. What’s new with the new USPS electric mail trucks? Nearly everything, as the design of the vehicles hasn’t had. [continued] The post US Postal Workers Love Their New Electric Mail Trucks!

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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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Rivian dominates owner satisfaction, Tesla comes third

Electrek

Rivian leads the industry in owner satisfaction, with Tesla coming in third making it two all-electric automakers in the top three.

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Kia EV6 recalled for loss of drive power

Green Car Reports

Kia is recalling 62,872 EV6 electric vehicles because onboard charging control units could become damaged and trigger a reduced-power driving mode. The recall covers 2022-2024 models, which have integrated charging control units that may become damaged by certain electrical loads, preventing them from charging the vehicles' 12-volt batteries.

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The Art of Failure Analysis 2024

Cars That Think

When your car breaks down, you take it to the mechanic. When a computer chip fails, engineers go to the failure analysis team. It’s their job to diagnose what went wrong and work to make sure it doesn’t in the future. The International Symposium on the Physical and Failure analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) is a yearly conference in Asia attended by failure analysis engineers.

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Tesla will get Elon Musk his pay package ‘one way or another’: analyst

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will get his $56 billion pay package from the company “one way or another” after Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick denied the massive compensation for a second time on Monday night. This is according to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who said the move to deny the package was just the latest example of a “Twilight Zone legal move” from McCormick.

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Tesla shuts down Cybertruck production for 3 days at critical time for the company

Electrek

Tesla has told Cybertruck production employees not to report to work for the next three days, in another sign of demand issues for the vehicle that once touted millions of preorders.

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Jaguar EV concept leaked, previews automaker's future design direction

Green Car Reports

A concept car previewing the design direction of Jaguar's upcoming electric-vehicle lineup leaked Monday ahead of its official debut. The Jaguar Design Vision concept was due to be unveiled Monday night at Miami Art Week, but images were posted online ahead of that on the CocheSpias Instagram page. Those images show a two-door fastback coupe with.

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BYD Sells 1 Million Plugin Vehicles in Just 2 Months!

CleanTechnica EVs

BYD continues to shatter records for plugin vehicle sales (aka “new energy vehicle” sales in China). After delivering more than 500,000 plugin vehicles in October, the company backed that up by selling a few thousand more in November. Therefore, combined, BYD sold more than one million plugin vehicles in just. [continued] The post BYD Sells 1 Million Plugin Vehicles in Just 2 Months!

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The Honda Prologue Is Becoming America’s Sweetheart EV

InsideEVs

Honda sold more Prologue EVs in November than Volvo sold EX40s and C40s in the first 11 months of this year.

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The US’s largest solar + storage project gets the green light

Electrek

The USs largest proposed solar and storage project, the 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Sunstone Solar, just got the go-ahead from Oregon regulators.

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Universal plug-and-charge coming to all EVs starting in 2025

Green Car Reports

A consortium of stakeholders aims to roll out a universal plug-and-charge protocol for the U.S. in 2025, allowing all electric vehicles to automatically start charging at public stations simply by plugging in. Announced Wednesday, the initiative is being undertaken by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the federal government's Joint Office.

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Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare

Cars That Think

When the lights went out on the BCS East-West Interlink fiber optic cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden on 17 November, the biggest question wasn’t when internet service would be restored. (That’d come another 10 or so days later.) The outage—alongside a cable failure the next day of an undersea line connecting Finland and Germany—soon became a whodunit, as German, Swedish, and Finnish officials variously hinted that the damage to the lines could constitute acts of “sabotage” or “hybrid warfar

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Battery-Swapping Nio Has Big Plans. Maybe Even For America

InsideEVs

China's Nio plans on entering 25 more markets by the end of 2025, and it’s considering partnerships too. What about the U.S.?

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$400 million electric heavy equipment order from China is biggest ever (so far)

Electrek

Australian mining company Fortescue is making headlines again, after it placed a huge, $400 million order for over 100 new electric equipment assets with Chinese heavy equipment company XCMG (Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group). The deal is the largest single equipment export deal in XCMG’s history.

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Could a 2-speed help boost efficiency in future Lucid EVs?

Green Car Reports

New layout for a 2-speed might be light and compact while maintaining efficiency Could potentially allow strong launch with a lower-cost motor unit Idea might be due in future Lucid EVs, or engineers might still be pondering it The Lucid Air electric sedan already achieves impressive efficiency with its existing drive unit, but the automaker might.

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EVs Take 94.9% Share In Norway – New Hope For Final Steps

CleanTechnica EVs

November saw plugin EVs take 94.9% share in Norway, up from 90.6% year on year. BEV sales grew 30% YoY, taking almost 94% share. Overall auto volume was 11,689 units, up 13% YoY. Tesla took the top two spots, with the Model Y and Model 3. November’s auto sales saw. [continued] The post EVs Take 94.9% Share In Norway – New Hope For Final Steps appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Ford Puma Gen-E: Mustang Mach-E’s Little Brother With Up To 233 Miles Of Range

InsideEVs

The electric crossover is smaller than the discontinued first-generation Chevrolet Bolt EUV.

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The electric Ford Puma Gen-E is finally here and it’s better than ever

Electrek

Ford’s best-selling vehicle in Europe just got a major upgrade with an all-electric powertrain, a sporty new design, and more space than ever. The electric Ford Puma Gen-E is finally here. Here’s what you need to know about Ford’s newest EV.

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2026 BMW iX bridges the Neue Klasse EV current

Green Car Reports

Refreshed iX electric crossover gets 10% more efficient 2026 iX will have three new model designations BMW refined the suspension tuning If you’ve been following EVs, then BMW’s Neue Klasse (noo-ay class-ay) should sound familiar. Even though the “new class” sounds as French as it does German to this anglophone, BMW uses it.

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Tesla Model 3 Long Range RWD owner reports 408-mile run in one charge

Teslarati

A Tesla owner has shared a stunning statistic from his Model 3 Long Range Rear Wheel Drive (RWD). As per the Tesla owner, his vehicle was able to run 408 miles on one charge, significantly farther than the Model 3 Long Range RWD’s EPA-estimated range of 363 miles per charge. An image of the vehicle’s post-trip stats was shared by Tesla owner @dkrasniy online.

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Top Selling Automakers in World for EV Sales

CleanTechnica EVs

Following up on our report on the top selling electric vehicle models in the world, here’s a broader look at the top selling auto brands and auto groups/OEMs. Top Selling Auto Brands In October, #1 BYD, now deep into pricing out the competition (fossil fueled and electric…) didn’t disappoint. It. [continued] The post Top Selling Automakers in World for EV Sales appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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