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MIT study finds materials risk exposure increases significantly with vehicle electrification

Green Car Congress

Now, a study by a team from MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory, with support from Ford, provides insight into how electrification is changing vehicle composition and how that change is driving supply risk vulnerability. Modern automobiles are built with more than 2,000 different compounds comprising 76 different elements.

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Arity partners with Ford to enable more efficient usage-based insurance (UBI) offerings

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Usage-based insurance programs give drivers access to personalized driving data directly from the vehicle while allowing insurers to price more accurately in return for safer driving on the roads, all without having to download an additional app or plug in an OBD (onboard diagnostic) device.

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New Tesla 70D Driven, Plug-In Price Cuts, Unpopular Insight: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

We''ve now driven the newest Tesla, and reported on a pair of price cuts on plug-in cars from General Motors. And then we tell you about the least popular car on sale in the U.S. All this and more today on Green Car Reports. Today in Car News'

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Plug a non-Tesla right into a Supercharger? It’s no longer so easy

Baua Electric

. “The logical thing for Tesla to do, not that Tesla ever does anything logical, would be to create a software development kit for automakers that handles all of the communications requirements to enable vehicles to talk to their chargers,” Abuelsamid of Guidehouse Insights mentioned. kW or 11.5-kW kW boarded charger. .

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Data show California BEVs at 6.7% new vehicle marketshare in Q3

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Total PEVs (plug-in electric vehicles) however were down as the PHEV (plug-in hybrid) component continued to show its high variability over the past several quarters, dropping from 12,992 units in Q3 2019 to 5,866 in Q3 2020. market share in Q3 as registrations of traditional fuel vehicles were down more sharply. Source: CNCDA.

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DOE labs study on costs and benefits of new transportation technologies the most comprehensive to date

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The study looked at several powertrains: internal combustion engine, hybrid electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, fuel cell electric vehicle and battery electric vehicle. Hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles will reach cost parity with conventional vehicles as the price of hydrogen falls. —David Gohlke.

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It’s a buyers’ market! Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y dominate  rapidly growing used EV sales in Australia

EV Central

That’s the findings from the Automotive Insights Report analysing March 2024 used car sales compiled by AutoGrab and the Australian Automotive Dealer Association. Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas READ MORE: Shock report! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas READ MORE: Shock report!