Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

In 2021, the United States returned to importing more petroleum (which includes crude oil, refined petroleum products, and other liquids) than it exports following its historic shift to being a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). According to EIA’s February 2022 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) , net crude oil imports will increase, making the United States a net importer of petroleum in 2022.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

California drivers have now bought a cumulative one million plug-in vehicles, according to data recently posted by the California Energy Commission. The updated figures were heralded Friday by the EV advocacy group Veloz, celebrating Californians’ milestone of “1 million electric vehicles (EVs) sold”—the first state to.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Tesla has announced that it will transition the Model S sedan and Model X SUV to Pure Vision, officially committing to a camera-based approach for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving suites. In May 2021, Tesla announced that all Model 3 and Model Y vehicles delivered from that month on would no longer equip radar. Instead, the vehicles would utilize Tesla’s “Pure Vision” approach , which only uses its eight external cameras to perform semi-autonomous driving functions. “S

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For all the recent improvements in artificial intelligence, the technology still cannot take the place of human beings in situations where it must frame its perceptions of the world in words that people can understand. You might have thought that the many apparent advances in speech recognition would have solved the problem already. After all, Apple’s Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana , Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive , but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Auto dealers are lobbying to close down a Tesla service center in Oklahoma. I was alerted to this by Tesla owner, Priscilla Sanstead, who tagged me and Sawyer Merritt in a post sharing a screenshot of an email from Tesla’s policy team about the situation. Oklahoma legacy auto dealers want to shut down our OK […].

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tesla has announced that it has produced 1 million of its next-generation 4680 battery cell at its pilot factory in California. The announcement comes as Tesla is expected to start deliveries of its new Model Y equipped with its 4680 cell and structural battery pack. more… The post Tesla announces it has produced 1 million next-gen 4680 battery cells appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Nissan is planning to build two fully electric vehicles at its Canton, Mississippi plant, starting in 2025, the company revealed Thursday. One will be a Nissan-brand vehicle, the other the first U.S.-market electric vehicle for Infiniti. The two models were shown briefly in concept form, obscured, but enough to see that the Nissan concept might be.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is happy to see the US Justice Department initiate an investigation into short-sellers. In an email to CNBC , Musk stated that he is encouraged by an ongoing probe from the DOJ, as it is doing something that the Securities and Exchange Commission has curiously not done so far. “I am greatly encouraged by the Justice Department investigating short sellers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When Yann LeCun gives talks, he's apt to include a slide showing a famous painting of a scene from the French Revolution. Superimposed over a battle scene are these words: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE SUPERVISED. LeCun, VP and chief AI scientist of Meta (formerly Facebook), believes that the next AI revolution will come about when AI systems no longer require supervised learning.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Canada will soon have its first Tesla police car, Drive Tesla Canada reports. The Bridgewater Police Service in Nova Scotia will be adding a Tesla Model 3 to its fleet of patrol cars. Mayor Davit Mitchell shared his excitement on Twitter, noting that the city council agreed to purchase a Tesla. He added that data […].

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Elon Musk said that Tesla is working to make Steam’s library of video games work on its onboard vehicle computer. Tesla has been working to expand its presence in the video game space. more… The post Elon Musk: Tesla is working to make Steam video games work in its vehicles appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

A consortium comprising Solaris Bus & Coach, Solaris Czech and Škoda Electric has submitted a winning bid in a tender for the delivery of 20 bi-articulated Trollino 24 electric trolleybuses, held by the Prague public transport operator Dopravní podnik. This is the first such large order for vehicles of this type. The deliveries shall be carried out within 24 months of the signing of the contract.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Will the electric-vehicle charging station of the future look a lot like a gas station, or will it involve more clusters of chargers in corners of vast blacktop parking lots? Thankfully, if you go by the winners, announced earlier this month, of a competition called “The Electric Fuelling Station of the Future,” the answer is neither.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In lieu of commercial missions ready to fly, SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets are currently scheduled to launch at least five batches of Starlink satellites in a row. The streak won’t break the company’s record of seven back-to-back Starlink launches but it does highlight one beneficial side-effect of SpaceX’s relentless pursuit of vertical integration – the ability to create its own launch demand.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will unlock the true potential of AI. Synthetic data is generated instead of collected, and the consultancy company Gartner has estimated that 60 percent of data used to train AI systems will be synthetic.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s hard to believe, even as someone who has been placed firmly on the Tesla bull list for a decade, but the Tesla Model Y ended 2021 as the top selling SUV or truck in California! That is across all types of SUVs and trucks. The Model Y outsold the #2 Toyota RAV4, a much […].

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The US Departments of Transportation and Energy today announced that nearly $5 billion is earmarked for a national electric vehicle charging network under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. more… The post Biden announces $5 billion over 5 years for a nationwide EV charging network appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. A joint industry partnership to commercialize clean, gold hydrogen, the program’s founding members include synthetic biology company Cemvita Factory (innovator in low-carbon microbial solutions for energy and mining resource extraction, production, and renewal); and Chart Industries, Inc.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6 are two of the hottest electric vehicle introductions of this past year. Both models are built on the same leading-edge E-GMP platform for EVs. Both brands share the same Hyundai Motor Company parent and are part of the same overarching plan to electrify. But if you happen to be in a region that’s not.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A new report from Kelley Blue Book indicates electric vehicle sales peaked in the United States in Q4 2021, accounting for 4.5 percent of all automobile sales in the final three months of the year. Despite widespread parts and chip shortages that plague the industry to this day, 2021 was the United States EV industry’s most successful year, with nearly 148,000 electrified units sold.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Tesla Model S Plaid owner and racer Mike Dusold recently shared his thoughts on racing and his Model S Plaid with Gail Alfar in her new blog, What’s Up Tesla? Gail recently launched her new blog to expand her own passion for Tesla and its move to her city, Austin, TX. In this post, she chatted […].

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Tesla announced a new investment to expand production at Gigafactory Shanghai on the road to achieving a production capacity of 1 million electric cars per year at the factory. more… The post Tesla announces new investment in Gigafactory Shanghai on road to 1 million electric cars per year appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. In 2021 the company took orders, including letters of intent to buy, for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. The international trucking industry is undergoing a transformation towards more sustainable transport as sales of heavy battery electric trucks are starting to pick up, with Europe in the lead.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

General Motors plans to deliver 400,000 EVs through 2023, CEO Mary Barra said during a financial call detailing the automaker's 2021 financial results. That total will be made up of several new models scheduled to ramp up production over the next year, as well as continued production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV. Production of those.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently threw a quick counter towards US Senator Elizabeth Warren, who reiterated her argument that billionaires do not pay taxes. Fresh off his $11 billion tax bill in 2021 and his $5 billion donation to charity, Musk seemed to be in the mood to throw some shade against the senator. Musk responded to a video of Warren from a CNN interview last week.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University , cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu , where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Cars.com has named the Tesla Model Y the Best Electric Vehicle of 2022 winner in its “Best of 2022” awards program. The car-buying marketplace stated, “As more automakers bet on an electric future, consumers are starting to pay attention to the once-outlying rogue tech of automotive.” Expanding on that, executive editor and head of EV […].

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, one of the top-ranked Wall Street analysts, Tesla’s (TSLA) revenue should grow larger than GM and Ford combined within the next 5 years. more… The post Tesla (TSLA) revenue to grow larger than GM and Ford combined within next 5 years, says top analyst appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

QUANTRON has unveiled its new 12m electric bus called CIZARIS. The new bus model in the Augsburg-based company’s bus portfolio will be launched as an all-electric version (CIZARIS 12 EV), followed in 2023 by a fuel cell drive (CIZARIS 12 H) that uses a largely identical powertrain. Two- and three-door models with a total of nine interior layouts are available.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wind and solar-powered charging could further lower the environmental impact of electric cars; but one New York-based company wants to combine them in one electricity-generating device that could be used for EV charging stations or wherever grid-buffering might help keep blackouts at bay. Change Wind Corporation has developed the Wind & Solar.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tesla announced today on Twitter that it had successfully manufactured the one-millionth 4680 battery cell at the Kato Road pilot facility in January. Tesla’s 4680 battery cell is one of the company’s most significant developments in its history. The cell was the primary focus of Tesla’s Battery Day event in September 2020 , where Tesla detailed the advantages of the new cell and unveiled a new battery pack structure to increase vehicle rigidity and safety.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. Modern laptops are notoriously difficult ( and sometimes impossible ) to repair, a problem Luna’s designers address by reducing the number of screws to four and avoiding permanent adhesives. Instead, many components lock into place.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The auto industry’s burgeoning transition to electric vehicles poses new challenges to auto service centers, as higher hybrid and EV adoption rates require companies to understand and manage new hardware. One such service company is Bridgestone Americas, which owns roughly 2,200 tire and vehicle service centers across the U.S, as detailed in a report last […].

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