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Comment on NIO says Abu Dhabi investment took just 3 weeks from talk to deal by Augustus Meyer

CN EV Post

Even more dilution, because of terribly wrong decisions not to make cars, but phones or to invest in nuclear energy. Simple solution: Make battery swapping tech "Open Source" for other NEV producers. Why did Mr. Li not buy these cheap shares by himself, to show confidence in NIO ? Great idea; terrible execution.

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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

Baua Electric

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

Buying a New Car is inefficient, its no wonder that electric vehicle sales are still pretty low. The buying experience of a new car for each of us is different, but the one similarity for all of us is its inefficiency. Each of us has a different approach to buying a new car.

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Infiniti tech, Chrysler Pacifica recall, Hyundai Kona electric, charging costs: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Faster charging is coming—but it won't come cheap. And we detail why the Hyundai Kona Electric is one of our three finalists for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019. All this and more on Green Car. Chrysler recalls Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivans—again.

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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Cars That Think

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. Amazon wanted to increase the amount of behind-the-meter power it buys from the plant from 300 MW to 480 MW. Susquehanna agreed to sell it.

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Opinion: Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate is Misguided Overreach

The Truth About Cars

That, I think, is the case with the recent rule that requires automatic emergency braking to be standard on all new cars starting with the 2029 model year. Who doesn't like fewer pedestrian deaths and collisions between cars? That said, of course I am all for safety and fewer pedestrian deaths -- and fewer car crashes.

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Junkyard Find: 1970 Volvo 145

The Truth About Cars

Because Volvo sold the 200 Series cars here from the 1975 through 1993 model years and so many owners loved those sensible bricks so deeply, plenty are only now showing up in the self-service car graveyards I frequent. Plenty of curmudgeonly Silicon Valley tech-industry workers drove old Swedish cars to work for decade after decade.

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