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Q2 earnings, Elon bets big on AI, cheap Tesla EVs, and Chevy EV lease deals

Electrek

On this, extra-dense episode of Quick Charge, we cover Tesla’s Q2 earnings call, Elon Musk talks cheap Tesla cars and cheaper 4680 batteries while promising to finally deliver on that new Roadster from 2017.

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Q2 earnings, Elon bets big on AI, cheap Tesla EVs, and Chevy EV lease deals

Baua Electric

On this, extra-dense episode of Quick Charge, we cover Tesla’s Q2 earnings call, Elon Musk talks cheap Tesla cars and cheaper 4680 batteries while promising to finally deliver on that new Roadster from 2017. The post Q2 earnings, Elon bets big on AI, cheap Tesla EVs, and Chevy EV lease deals appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. How did it all start? It was time to buy our first car.

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This Cheap Used Tesla Model S With 450,000 Miles Seems Remarkably Good

InsideEVs

While it’s not the highest-mileage Model S we’ve ever documented, a former taxi right-hand drive example from 2017 looks really solid.

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Scientists create cheap and safe electro-catalysts for anion-exchange fuel cells

Green Car Congress

The catalysts were made by using a cheap clay material called Halloysite as the template, urea as the nitrogen source and furfural (an organic chemical that can be produced from oats, wheat bran or sawdust) as the carbon source. 2017.10.037.

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This forgotten General Motors EV won’t have Tesla Supercharger access

Teslarati

The Spark was a cheap vehicle that had a base price of just below $13,000. In 2017, Spark sales dropped off the table, and GM could not justify continuing to build the vehicle, especially considering SUVs started taking over in the U.S. GM confirmed that earlier this week, GM Authority said.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

Green Car Congress

Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. Djaja, Renata Bura and Rick Gustafson (2017) “Can we use short rotation coppice poplar for sugar based biorefinery feedstock? Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.