Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two of its Flint, Michigan, manufacturing sites—Flint Assembly and Flint Metal Center—to prepare those plants for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) heavy-duty trucks. billion since 2013. GM has announced more than $1.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2022

one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, is expanding its zero-emission bus portfolio with the addition of new electric bus products fully designed and integrated in-house using its own expertise. Details and technical specifications will be released over the coming months.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2024

In a recent press release, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) announced that it was giving a “REVolutionary Vegan Vehicle” Award to Rivian for the automaker’s efforts to ensure that no animals are harmed in the production of its all-electric vehicles. Rivian’s award is quite impressive as PETA is typically very strict.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $500 million in Arlington Assembly to prepare the plant for production of future internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size SUVs, subject to successful discussions with local government officials. Product details and timing related to GM’s future full-size SUVs are not being released at this time.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2023

Tesla Cybertrucks continue to roll across production lines at Giga Texas, as another sighting shared recently indicates that the automaker is working hard to get units ready for production. Continued Release Candidate builds ironing out the kinks I’d bet?! Please email me with questions and comments at joey@teslarati.com.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2023

Tesla is targeting production of 20 million passenger EVs by 2030. This is compared to the 915,000 tonnes LCE production in operation today. With the amount of lithium production forecast by Benchmark for 2030, only 3.2 TWh of lithium ion batteries can be produced, highlighting that the mineral is a constraining factor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Vans plans to release a series-production vehicle on the basis of the Concept EQV, to be presented to the public at this year’s Frankfurt Autoshow. Technical highlights of the vehicle include a range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) and rapid charging to enable a range of 100 kilometers within just 15 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

The Group expects to cut development time by about a quarter, increase the speed of new software releases and also significantly accelerate manufacturing processes in production. If the car is increasingly becoming an electrically driven software product, then its development must also evolve in all dimensions.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Porsche Taycan production began in 2019 at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant, a facility that continues to be the primary source of Taycans. Porsche highlighted the enthusiasm from fans in their press release, speaking with owners now nearing 200,000 kilometers in under two years of ownership.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And according to a video posted today, Aptera has begun producing solar parts as it hopes to start full vehicle production in the coming year. The video also highlights some of the design goals Aptera set for its solar design. The post Solar vehicle fans rejoice: Aptera begins solar-cell production appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report, Hybrid Energy Systems: Opportunities for Coordinated Research , highlighting innovative opportunities to spur joint research on hybrid energy systems (HES). HES can also be configured to provide various electric and nonelectric products (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual Automotive Trends Report , which shows that model year (MY) 2021 vehicle fuel economy remained at a record high—but flat with MY 2020 fuel economy—while CO 2 emission levels reached a new record low. Estimated real-world fuel economy and CO 2 emissions. Source: EPA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has released recommended steel industry greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculation guidelines to provide consistent and comprehensive data across the industry on GHG emissions from steel production, with a focus on product-level disclosures and corporate-level reporting.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Recent reports from China have suggested that the production of Tesla Model Y units with updated rear seats and emergency door opening systems has begun this month in Gigafactory Shanghai. The production of the updated Model Y units reportedly started around mid-October, according to local media outlets.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Micromobility America returned to the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this month to showcase the latest micromobility products, highlight new releases, offer test rides, hear from insightful company leaders and politicians, and basically nerd out about electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Smithers, a leading provider of testing, consulting, information, and compliance services, released a new whitepaper reporting the effects of temperature on tire rolling resistance. The laboratory is co-located with a Smithers product testing laboratory, which opened in 2019.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2024

Tesla has highlighted its latest generation Powerwall in a recent advertisement, noting that it can continue to operate even when submerged underwater. The Powerwall 3 offers an energy capacity of 13.5 kWh and 11.5 kW of continuous backup power and on-grid power, as can be seen on Tesla’s website in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

SAE International has released a new standard document that aids in mitigating risk for the storage of lithium-ion cells, traction batteries, and battery systems intended for use in automotive-type propulsion systems and similar large format (e.g., stationary, industrial) applications. —Ronald M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee.

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Teslarati

MAY 11, 2022

This was highlighted recently when Tesla China exported its first batch of vehicles since Giga Shanghai resumed its vehicle production activities on April 19. . This suggests that Giga Shanghai’s production lines for both vehicles are ramping at a steady pace. . month-over-month drop in Tesla China’s sales.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2021

bp released the 70 th annual edition of the bp Statistical Review of World Energy ; the data collected in this year’s edition includes energy data for 2020. Key highlights: Primary energy consumption fell by 4.5% World oil production fell for the first time since 2009 by 6.6 in 2020—the largest annual decline since 1945.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a recent press release, Tesla battery partner Panasonic announced that its energy division will establish a 4680 cell production facility at its Wakayama Factory in western Japan. Mass production of the new battery cells on the site is expected to start in the fiscal year ending in March 2024.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Still, the company remains far off from the world’s top EV seller, though the company has emphasized that its products are heading in the right direction. In a press release shared on Tuesday, Volkswagen reported 394,000 BEV deliveries worldwide in 2023, marking a 21.1. percent increase year over year. The automaker reached 4.87

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

As detailed in a press release from TagEnergy on Tuesday, the Jamesfield Megapack project outside of Abernathy, Scotland is now fully operational, offering 49MW of power and 98MWh of energy storage. The release also adds that Harmony Energy now has an operational portfolio of more than 500MW/1GWh, following the launch of the Jamesfield site.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

Polestar has released its second Annual Review and Sustainability report , highlighting progress towards its ambitious climate goals. Polestar’s continued partnership with Circulor now includes blockchain traceability of mica, in addition to cobalt that is already traced in Polestar 2 batteries from material source to finished product.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

But while Brownlee did point out a number of interesting advantages inherent in the all-electric pickup truck, he also noted that the vehicle he reviewed had the worst panel gap he’s ever seen in a production car. This is takes 5 mins to fix in service and has been addressed in production. Not a “door fit” issue.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A graphic published by Wood Mackenzie showing the market share of solar-plus-battery companies by installation count highlights Tesla’s notable presence in the segment. Musk highlighted this momentum in the Q3 earnings call. Regarding energy storage, we deployed 4 GWh of energy storage products in Q3.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2022

Among the highlights of the Apricale is the Graph-Pro Structural Pressure Vessel. The company is now working on bringing this design to production readiness, initially for Type-4 vessels, looking to JV or license the design to store hydrogen and other volatile gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Star Scientific is developer of the Hydrogen Energy Release Optimizer (HERO). The only by-product is water. Established in 1999, the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards highlight achievement in in 21 categories spanning the entire energy sector. Energy Company of the Year will be chosen from the entire list of finalists.

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Teslarati

APRIL 29, 2023

Ford CEO Jim Farley has highlighted what he believes is a strategic weakness of his business’s chief rival, Tesla. The Tesla Model 3 is most commonly the recipient of this criticism , released six years ago essentially without significant change. “The product gets commoditized, and then you lose your pricing premium. .

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Teslarati

JANUARY 20, 2022

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling company founded and led by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel, recently announced plans to ramp its copper foil production to 100 GWh of product annually over the next few years. These travels end up affecting the environmental impact and cost of battery production.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 29, 2021

Tesla’s second-quarter earnings release and call confirm it is on track to continue to expand production like never seen before in the automotive market. I want to highlight a few key trends and what they tell us about what Tesla may do in 2022 and beyond. My thesis, for some time, has been that even […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Such developments are happening at par with hydrogen production, charging infrastructure, and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles (FCEVs) to scale up to the requirements of a greener environment. GlobalData’s Innovation Explorer database highlights innovations in China that are accelerating the development of H 2 ICE technology.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tesla’s promotional video for the Cybertruck Basecamp highlighted some of the accessory’s advantages, from its quick setup to its rather neat mount on the all-electric pickup truck’s bed. Use the truck bed’s outlet to keep your devices charged (even while you’re off-grid).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Developed by Adsorbed Natural Gas Products, Inc. Under controlled depressurization, these molecules release and exit the storage system in response to the demand of the vehicle’s engine. Ingevity and Ozinga Energy are partnering to begin a field demonstration of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) bi-fuel pickup trucks.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 30, 2023

In one of the latest sightings, fellow Elon Musk-led business The Boring Company has highlighted the Cybertruck’s recent trip through the tunneling firm’s first underground loop. The Cybertruck has gone out to a very limited number of customers thus far, primarily including Tesla employees.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

In association with researchers from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and analysts at mining consultancy Weir International, metallurgical coal producer Ramaco Resources released an independent Exploration Target report with technical assessment of rare earth elements (REE) found at its Brook Mine in Wyoming.

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