Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously today to implement perhaps its most significant regulation ever – the Advanced Clean Cars II regulation, which officially implements a planned ban on new gas car sales beginning in 2035 and could shake up the entire US auto market. more…. The post California’s 2035 gas car ban finalized – why it’s huge, even if we want sooner appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations forecast battery-grade lithium carbonate to trade at 504,813 CNY (US$74,000) per tonne in 12 months time. Lithium is expected to trade at 484,185.00 by the end of this quarter. Lithium carbonate prices in China rose slightly to 480,500 yuan/tonne in mid-August, remaining close to the record-high of 500,000 from March and 400% higher year-on-year as soaring demand drove expectations of extended supply deficits.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2022

Any light-duty electric vehicle available in the United States for the 2022 model year will save drivers thousands of dollars over gasoline or diesel vehicles, the Department of Energy said last week in a blog post. Every U.S.-market EV costs less than $1,000 to "fuel" (meaning charge with electricity) for a year, compared to $2,000 to $7,000 for.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 25, 2022

Legendary billionaire investor Ron Baron recently revealed that he had added a substantial amount to his stake in Elon Musk’s private space company, SpaceX. Apart from this, Baron also noted that his investment in Tesla has been extremely profitable so far, but he believes that TSLA still has a long way to go up. Baron, the founder and chief executive of investment management firm Baron Capital, shared his thoughts during a CNBC segment on Thursday.

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Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

Toyota is at it again, claiming that there’s not enough demand in the United States for electric vehicles – most of which are currently suffering from months of backlog in the United States due to high demand. Even their own bZ4X has a waiting list because, well, the wheels keep falling off. more…. The post Toyota says there’s no EV demand – maybe try selling one the wheels stay on?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Orange EV has expanded its yard truck rental program to offer the largest electric spotter rental fleet across the United States. These all-electric rentals are now available in 48 states, providing increased uptime and reduced costs. Founded in 2012, Orange EV was the first US-based manufacturer to offer 100% electric Class 8 vehicles and the first to offer electric yard truck rentals.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker— AI4Science —used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own AI4Science initiative, employing dozens of people spread across several countries. Chris Bishop, its director, started on the science side before gravitating to AI.

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CN EV Post

AUGUST 26, 2022

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Ministry of Finance and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) signed an audit supervision cooperation agreement on August 26, which will be launched in the near future. The post BREAKING: Chinese securities regulator signs audit regulatory cooperation deal with US regulators appeared first on CnEVPost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Russia-based Nornickel has begun prototyping new nickel- and cobalt-based alloys, which are of high demand in the aviation, space, nuclear, chemical and oil and gas industries. The project is implemented at the company’s Kola Division. Nornickel’s Kola Division in Russia is represented by Kola MMC, a wholly owned key production site. Kola MMC is Nornickel’s nickel refining hub, located on the Kola Peninsula, the Murmansk Region.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2022

Electric car maker Polestar on Tuesday announced a multi-year agreement to supply batteries and charging systems to electric boat maker Candela. "The agreement marks one of the world’s first direct battery technology collaborations between companies from the automotive and marine industries," Polestar said in a press release. A Swedish firm.

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Electrek

AUGUST 26, 2022

Panasonic just announced that it is building a $4 billion battery cell factory in Kansas to supply Tesla, but we now learn that the Japanese company is considering greenlighting another large-scale US battery cell factory to build simultaneously. more…. The post Tesla battery supplier Panasonic is considering another large-scale US battery cell factory appeared first on Electrek.

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CN EV Post

AUGUST 26, 2022

For NIO, it will see greater competitiveness in Europe than in China, said Qin Lihong. The post NIO to hold local NIO Day event in Europe in Q4, president says appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2022

Audi is putting a centralized server solution into test operation in cycle-dependent production; it says it is the first manufacturer to do so. With this Edge Cloud 4 Production local server solution, Audi is initiating a paradigm shift in automation technology. With the Edge Cloud 4 Production, a few centralized and local servers will take on the work of countless expensive industrial PCs.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2022

Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen are looking to Canada for supplies of battery raw materials, which should help the automakers meet new eligibility requirements for the United States EV tax credit. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) lays out stipulations on critical minerals, battery sourcing, domestic-content thresholds, and vehicle.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2022

SpaceX and NASA have settled on October 3rd for the company’s fifth operational astronaut launch, a mission that will also mark the first time a Russian cosmonaut flies on Crew Dragon. Initially scheduled to launch in early September, NASA announced in July that SpaceX’s Crew-5 launch was slipping to late September after the company accidentally ran its new Falcon 9 rocket booster into a bridge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ford has raised prices on its 2023 Mustang Mach-E electric SUV, by up to $8,300 versus the 2022 model. The automaker said in a release issued Thursday that the price hikes are “due to significant material cost increases, continued strain on key supply chains, and rapidly evolving market conditions.” Here, they also incorporate a change.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2022

As the Siemens Stiftung’s “Testing E-Mobility Business Models at WE Hub Victoria Limited in Kenya” field report says, “Mobility is the basis for the overall development of a society: it gives the population access to jobs, markets, social facilities, and health care. In addition, mobility itself creates jobs.” Access to reliable and affordable transport services […].

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Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

At a joint event between SpaceX and T-Mobile, the two companies announced that they will be launching a direct-to-phone connection with Starlink Gen 2 satellites. Elon took to Twitter soon after to confirm that this same connection will allow direct connections with Tesla vehicles. more…. The post Direct-to-satellite Starlink coming to Tesla vehicles, but not in the way you expect appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of conventional and electrified vehicle propulsion solutions for tactical wheeled and tracked defense vehicles, and medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, has been awarded a $6.55-million contract by the US Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center to design, develop and test an electric hybrid sub-system in Allison’s Next Generation Electrified Transmission (NGET) for armored combat vehicles. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2022

Polestar battery tech is going into some fast, efficient watercraft. Toyota and CARB are cooperating. And EVs cost far less to “fuel” than gasoline vehicles. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. According to recent estimates from the Department of Energy, every U.S.-market EV costs less than $1,000 to.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2022

As of the end of Q2 2022, Norway’s passenger vehicle fleet comprised 24.4% plugin vehicles (18% full electrics), up from 19.3% (13.6%) year on year. What is the trajectory of Norway’s vehicle fleet, and how long will it be before most car journeys are made on electricity? This time a year ago, the plugin share […].

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CN EV Post

AUGUST 26, 2022

NIO will allow consumers to lock in their orders for the ET5 starting September 9, with first deliveries taking place on September 30. The post NIO ET5 pre-order details: Price, first delivery date and benefits appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

Foton Mobility and Transit Systems Australia announced the arrival of two hydrogen fuel cell buses. The hydrogen buses are equipped with the fuel cell system jointly developed by SinoHytec and Toyota. ( Earlier post.). The hydrogen fuel cell buses have been added to Transit Systems growing green fleet of sustainable transport solutions, which now includes 60 electric buses and two hydrogen buses.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2022

BMW, Ford, and General Motors are partnering with California not-for-profit utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on a pilot program that will incentivize off-peak EV charging. The pilot program will allow utility customers in California's state capital to take advantage of lower electricity rates, while helping to balance the grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The overall European car market is still in the red, and the European passenger plugin vehicle market has also started to get affected. It was down 5% last month, with approximately 157,000 plugin vehicles registered in July. Looking closer, plugin hybrids (-25% YoY) were the ones to blame for sinking plugins into the red. Plugin […].

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2022

With the rush toward using tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning technologies to analyze health data for insights, questions are being raised about how good a job the technologies are doing to improve outcomes. Technologists, clinicians, researchers, scientists, ethicists, policy stewards, and other experts offer their thoughts during the third season of the Re-Think Health Podcast, AI for Good Medicine.

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

Kia has revealed details of the final intensive testing program undertaken by the Kia EV9 ahead of its world debut in 2023. The all-electric Kia EV9 will become the brand’s flagship model and will revolutionize the large electric SUV segment, while accelerating Kia’s brand transformation and affirming its leadership in sustainable electric mobility.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2022

Kia on Thursday revealed a bit more about how its upcoming EV9 electric SUV will fit into the market. And it includes a few surprises. The production EV9, which is set for a world premiere in the first quarter of 2023 and a U.S. introduction in the second half of 2023, is currently undergoing the final stretch of durability testing. That has.

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Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

Renewables provided more than 25% of electrical generation in the United States during the first half of 2022, according to new data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). more…. The post Renewables provided over 25% of total US electrical generation in first half of 2022 appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2022

Welcome to IEEE Spectrum ’s ninth annual ranking of the Top Programming Languages! This year we’ve revamped and streamlined our interactive ranking tool, and made other changes under the hood, but the goal remains the same—to combine multiple metrics from different sources to estimate the relative popularity of different languages. You can get into the details of our methodological changes below (the TLDR is that we eliminated the need for folks to run a giant ball of floating-point math in thei

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is exclusively producing the all-electric EQS SUV at its North American passenger vehicle plant. These vehicles rolling off the line is a key step in Mercedes-Benz Cars’ global initiative to produce eight all-electric vehicles at seven sites on three continents this year. The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes-Benz […] The post Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV enters serial production at Alabama plant appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2022

Some shoppers for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are encountering severe sticker shock this weekend in monthly lease numbers. That’s because versus just a few days ago, a vast swath of EV and PHEV models are no longer eligible for the federal EV tax credit—now known as the Clean Vehicle Credit. On Thursday, Toyota pulled its.

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