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Tesla gets probed by South Korean regulator over suspicions of “exaggerated” vehicle range claims

Teslarati

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has launched an investigation against US-based EV maker Tesla over the company’s alleged “exaggerated” claims about its electric cars’ range. A review report about the issue has been sent to the electric vehicle maker.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

Green Car Congress

Conversion systems allow vehicles to run on alternative fuels; most conversions involve switching gasoline or diesel vehicles to operate instead on a gaseous fuel such as natural gas or propane; an alcohol fuel; or electricity. 1 This example is for Light-duty Tier 2 vehicles which have a useful life of 10 years or 120,000 miles.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. It is already here today. Save your money.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US and another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354 kilometers) north of Reno. The Bureau of Land Management released more than 2,000 pages of documents in a draft environmental impact statement last week for the Rhyolite Ridge mine.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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We believe this is not the right strategy, and electric vehicles will ultimately dominate the market. million vehicles, and we’re seeing about half of people use it so far. So we now have over 300 billion miles that have been driven with FSD v12. And that percentage is increasing with each passing week.

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