Green Car Reports

JANUARY 2, 2023

The updated version, dubbed MEB+, will incorporate charging and battery updates, as well as an electrical architecture designed to support more advanced driver-assist tech, according to VW. The Volkswagen MEB platform that has served as the backbone for the automaker's EV push is set to get a number of updates over the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The European Commission (EC) unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that the Commission fears are luring European clean-tech companies to North America. The E uropean Critical Raw Materials Act would help the bloc secure supply of the metals needed to build batteries, wind turbines and other green technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Electric vehicles are the next frontier in the clean energy transition, and we are committed to making charging EVs easy, convenient and affordable for customers. In addition to helping customers who own EVs charge up at home and on the go, its programs aim to give all customers access to clean, affordable, electric transportation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With complimentary charging, the new solar units help combat two of the biggest barriers to EV adoption in these locations: access to public charging and affordability. The network ensured that more than half of these chargers were located in disadvantaged and low income communities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Showcasing a tech-rich cabin, the Prologue will have a standard fully digital 11-inch driver display panel and an 11.3-inch 2027: Begin sales of a new series of affordable EVs co-developed with GM, also produced by Honda in North America. Prologue will have a wheelbase of 121.8-inches, inch audio/connectivity display.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The Ultium Platform will: Enable GM to make nearly every type of vehicle across its different brands and up and down the portfolio by building everything from affordable, high-volume crossovers and passenger cars to full-size pickups and SUVs, performance, and commercial vehicles. BrightDrop EV600.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), the world's largest technology manufacturer and service provider, announced two self-developed prototype electric vehicles at its third annual Hon Hai Tech Day (HHTD): the MODEL B crossover hatchback and the MODEL V all-terrain, electric pickup. —Hon Hai Chairman and CEO Young Liu.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2021

Most importantly, on the way to EV affordability and profitability, the company outlined plans to potentially halve its battery costs for its most.

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Electrek

JANUARY 17, 2023

Mere weeks after officially debuting its AFEELA EV in front of crowds at CES, the joint venture between Sony and Honda has a unique strategy for how its future customers will be able to afford it. The post Here’s how Sony and Honda expect drivers to pay for the tech-packed AFEELA EV appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2024

In 2027, Volkswagen Group said it would launch a lineup of entry-level and affordably priced electric vehicles under the Brand Group Core. ” Yesterday, we reported on one of Stellantis’s ideas for increasing EV adoption: creating an affordable EV under the Jeep brand , which has a loyal following. VW wants to change that.

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2024

These new vehicles, including more affordable models, will use aspects of the next-generation platform as well as aspects of our current platforms, and we’ll be able to produce on the same manufacturing lines as our current vehicle lineup. So, we expect it to be more like the early 2025, if not late this year.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 4, 2024

Speaking with Yahoo Finance , Farley said his company aims to develop affordable EVs that compete with the rising tide of Chinese models. Saying that China’s investments in EVs have “paid off so far,” Farley noted that Ford is on track for its next-generation electric models to be profitable and affordable.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis’ investment in Tiamat supports its goal to provide customers with clean, safe, and affordable mobility worldwide. Stellantis is partnering with different companies on battery tech, including lead cell supplier CATL from China. Sodium-ion technology is free of lithium and cobalt and costs less per kilowatt-hour.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With new tech and cheaper alternatives hitting the market, electric vehicles will soon be even more affordable than their gas-powered counterparts. EV battery prices are plummeting, falling faster than most expected. This year will mark the steepest decline since 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2023

By combining a camera-only sensing system with Mobileye’s key mapping and decision-making technology, SuperVision gives automakers an affordable, flexible platform for eyes-on, hands-off driving across a range of operational design domains. Mobileye’s MaaS deployment partners also continue to make progress.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prices on used EVs have dropped enough to counter soaring finance rates and boost affordability. And Lexus previews EVs and some standout tech in Tokyo concepts. Mazda looks to its rotary heritage for a series-hybrid sports car concept. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

With a starting MSRP of $39,974 before tax incentives, the always-on 4x4 F-150 Lightning Pro with the standard range battery targets an EPA-estimated 230-mile range and includes a complimentary 32-amp Ford Mobile Charger, making the transition affordable for small and medium-size businesses.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling. “So it wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.”

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EV Central

MARCH 24, 2024

READ MORE: Next all-electric Nissan JUKE, QASHQAI and LEAF to go wild and ramp up Aussie EV attack READ MORE: Sony and Honda show off handsome 2025 Afeela electric sedan with Tesla-threatening tech READ MORE: Exclusive! Honda dumps GM, plans new family of affordable electric cars with Nissan appeared first on EV Central.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

With over 900,000 employees, BYD aims to continue climbing the global sales charts as it advances new tech to promote longer-range, more affordable EVs. China’s BYD now has the world’s largest R&D workforce of any automaker after its latest hiring spree.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

This project directly addresses those issues as we seek to advance technologies that can enable ports as high-throughput clusters for affordable, low-carbon hydrogen and achieve scaled demand across multiple applications. —Ted Barnes, Director of R&D at GTI.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The BYD Seagull made headlines as one of the most affordable electric vehicles on the market. IF Metall claims half of Tesla’s service techs are union members, but Tesla says over 90% are working. The post BYD produces 200K units of its most affordable EV appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Unveiled at the 2024 Geneva auto show, the new Renault 5 E-Tech combines retro styling and affordability. The cult-classic Renault 5 hatchback has returned as an EV—at a lower price than any electric car currently available in the U.S.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

technology debuts on the affordable EV3 and adds autonomous tech to adjustable regenerative braking. Kia's i-Pedal 3.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

The new award is one of 18 projects and approximately $64 million in DOE funding that will support the H2@Scale vision for affordable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use. Four of the 18 projects focus on composite fuel tanks. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2024

The Raspberry Pi is the most affordable CPU[-based] computer that you can get,” says Santiago Tenorio , network architecture director at Vodafone. Which means that what we build, in essence, has a similar bill of materials as a good quality Wi-Fi router.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

At an event in the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan, General Motors unveiled the core of its new strategy to grow the company’s EV sales quickly, efficiently and profitably. The heart of GM’s strategy is a modular propulsion system and a highly flexible, third-generation global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2023

Fisker Ronin is an all-electric four-door convertible GT sports car—a true five-seat GT with a carbon fiber hard-top convertible, four butterfly doors, a high-tech luxury interior, and futuristic exterior design. An integrated battery pack powers Ronin to a targeted 600-plus mile range.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Majella showed them the tech and then got the comment: “I couldn’t afford this and an expensive engagement ring for my fiancé.” As relayed by Majella Waterworth to David Waterworth Conversations collected at the AEVA EV experience day in Cleveland, Queensland, 26th September 2021. Two young men were enamored by our Tesla Model 3.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These LFP batteries will power a variety of affordable, next-generation Ford EV passenger vehicles and trucks under development, most of which will be assembled in the US. billion investment, Ford and its battery tech collaborators have announced $17.6 With this $3.5-billion

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 7, 2024

Enter a breakthrough from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU): solid-state batteries based on potassium and sodium silicates, a common and affordable minerals found in everyday rocks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

As the battery arm of global green tech company Envision Group, it will invest up to €2 billion to produce latest technology, cost-competitive, low-carbon and safe batteries for electric models, including the future R5. We are therefore delighted that Renault Group chose Envision AESC batteries for its next generation of EVs.

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Teslarati

MARCH 27, 2024

In addition, the United States has an under-supply of affordable EVs and cheap batteries for electric vehicles. Meanwhile, China has an oversupply of affordable EVs and cells in the battery market. In our view, Tesla is in a very strong position to ‘on-ramp’ Chinese EV tech to the US.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Each center will include high-tech development machinery ranging from computer-aided design (CAD) software to virtual collaboration capabilities and visualization technologies. Customer Solution Centers will bring research and technical platforms, operations and commercial development together to increase collaboration and innovation.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

The Cybertruck did not land with the affordable price tag Musk claimed, and it’s not quite as bulletproof as initially expected. These are wild claims, and while Tesla has managed to deliver on some of Musk's promises, it has also fallen short in some instances.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They not only afford us some of the cheapest energy we can produce but also a route to the low-carbon power necessary to achieving global decarbonization targets. As the world strives to decarbonize and mitigate our climate impact, one of our key goals is to ensure sustainable, secure and affordable energy. Earlier post.).

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