Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A team of MIT researchers led by William H. Green, the Hoyt Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, is developing a technology that allows liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) not only to deliver hydrogen to the trucks, but also to store the hydrogen onboard. Their findings were recently published in the ACS journal Energy and Fuels. Currently, LOHCs, which work within existing retail fuel distribution infrastructure, are used to deliver hydrogen gas to refueling stations, where it is then

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Toyota on Thursday provided an update on its battery development plans, including a more detailed roadmap for the rollout of solid-state batteries. The automaker has five next-generation battery designs, including both liquid and solid electrolytes. Toyota expects the solid-state batteries, which the company has been researching with Panasonic, to.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Elon Musk pushed to use Tesla’s internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers’ behavior, primarily for Tesla to use this video as evidence to defend itself from investigations in the event of a crash, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Tesla CEO. more… The post Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits appeared first on Electrek.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Toyota claims it also made a breakthrough in solid-state batteries, which will launch in 2027-2028 with 621 miles of range.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

by Alec Shkolnik, co-founder & CEO of LiquidPiston Months before stepping down as CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda zigged at a time when the rest of the automotive industry zagged: he argued for an electrified future powered by both EVs and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). I couldn’t agree more. New hybrid innovation is just as important as innovation in fully electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Kia EV9 electric SUV is shaping up to be one of the most important EVs yet for North America. That’s partly because it takes a shape and size that lands right in the midst of the U.S. family vehicle market, and in at least some forms lays down the promise of 300 miles of range. But it’s also because the EV9 promises to help make.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Several innovations would allow Tesla to die cast nearly all the complex underbody of an EV in one piece, Reuters reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

ANGI Energy Systems, a Vontier company announced a strategic collaboration with Nikola Corporation to support Nikola’s plan to create the largest North American open-network of commercial hydrogen refueling stations by providing technically advanced hydrogen fueling dispensers, under Nikola’s HYLA brand. The dispensers are expected to be the industry’s first HD-ready solutions in the field, offering high flow refueling for heavy-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Tesla has strong brand loyalty, but Rivian and Lucid are beginning to lure some Tesla owners away, according to a new study from S&P Global Mobility. Most Tesla owners stay with the brand, the study found. A whopping 72.8% of Model 3 owners replace their cars with another Tesla, as do 59.9% of Model S owners. Among Model S owners that don't.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Tesla is closing in on a new, groundbreaking manufacturing technique, according to a new report. The process is similar to the company’s industry-disrupting casting technique that saw it eliminate many parts into several pieces. However, this takes efficient manufacturing a step further. Tesla has used casting for a few years to streamline manufacturing, improve vehicle engineering and safety, and revolutionize how cars are built.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The American company is the biggest beneficiary of the European Union’s latest funding scheme.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and colleagues have developed a novel high-performance electrolyte (HPE) consisting of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI), lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF 6 ) and carbonates to support extreme fast charging (XFC). A paper on their work appears in the journal Batteries & Supercaps. Realizing XFC in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles is still challenging due to the insufficient lithium-ion transport kinetics, especially in the

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The 2024 Hyundai Kona is already reaching dealerships, while the Kona Electric version, Hyundai says, won’t arrive until late fall. You should wait, because the EV version of Hyundai’s small utility vehicle is hands-down the best of the bunch. We had two brief stints in a prototype Kona Electric in the rolling Maryland horse country.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla has landed nearly €149 million in funding from the European Union to support the update and expansion of its Supercharger network in Europe. It appears the funding will be used to install or upgrade over 7,000 Superchargers to the new V4. As a part of an ambitious plan to grow sustainability projects across Europe stemming from the EU Green Deal, the European Union has announced it will provide €352 million to fund 26 total infrastructure projects.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The second report of X-change series produced by RMI in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund and is a contribution to Systems Change Lab.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Volkswagen is presenting its vision of an all-electric sports limousine in the upper mid-sized class at the ID. Treffen in Locarno on the Swiss side of Lago Maggiore from 8 to 9 September. The ID.X Performance show car features all-wheel drive, performance-oriented suspension, and an expressive appearance. Andreas Reckewerth, Head of Technology Office MEB, and his team have created the show car on the basis of the new ID.7.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Which states are doing the best in terms of providing the right number of public chargers—and the right type of public chargers—for the growing fleet of electric vehicles? The answer might not be as simple as one metric, suggests a study looking to assess the state of EV demand and infrastructure readiness. But it does attempt to.

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The Driven EV News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NSW to scrap rebates and stamp duty exemptions for EVs, and will impose a road tax on new EVs bought from early next year. The post “Backflip and betrayal:” NSW scraps rebates and stamp duty exemptions for EVs appeared first on The Driven.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A new study from MarketWatch suggests that Tesla’s pioneering use of advanced telematics in assigning insurance risk may disrupt the insurance industry as much as the company has already disrupted global automotive markets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. His analysis found that if electrolyzed hydrogen were to be produced using a 2020 US electrical grid mix, its use would be associated with approximately 2.5x the global warming potential (GWP) as direct use of fossil

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian’s latest over-the-air update is being pushed out to its R1T and R1S electric trucks, and brings physical changes to the ride and handling of all the vehicles delivered to date. “One of the major benefits of the Rivian platform is the ability to continually enhance nearly every aspect of our vehicles, including driving dynamics.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the growing electric vehicle industry, it is electric cars that are given center stage when it comes to environmentally-conscious solutions to transportation. But what if I told you there was an electric vehicle that was displacing twice as much oil as those electric cars? And if that wasn’t impressive enough, consider this: It does it with half as many wheels. more… The post There’s an affordable EV out there displacing twice as much oil as electric cars appeared first on Electrek.

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The Driven EV News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A kit designed to quickly and cheaply turn petrol cars into hybrid vehicles has won a prestigious design award and could one day help cut Australia's transport emissions. The post Australian student wins award for design that could turn petrol cars into hybrids appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The municipal public transport operator TPER in the city of Bologna is going to purchase 130 hydrogen buses from Solaris. The delivery will encompass 127 units of 12-meter Urbino 12 hydrogen buses for TPER Bologna and 3 units for TPER Ferrara. The carrier shall also have the right to extend the order by an additional 140 vehicles as an option. The Italian cities of Bologna and Ferrara have just started one of the largest projects encompassing hydrogen fuel cell buses in Europe.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Honda has revealed a U.S.-designed electric scooter, intended for “first and last mile” transport, that will fold up into its own suitcase-size carrying case. The scooter, called Motocompacto, appears like it might be a perfect mobility accessory to pack into the upcoming 2024 Honda Prologue EV. And it will cost less than $1,000, Honda.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An EV driver in Georgia called the police on the US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, after her staff blocked a public charger with a gasoline car to “reserve” it for her upcoming convoy of EVs that she was using to highlight the White House investment in electric vehicles. more… The post EV driver calls cops on Energy Secretary after her staff blocks charger with ICE car appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A team of geologists say they may have found the world's largest lithium deposit in the world inside an extinct volcano in Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The United States exported more liquefied natural gas (LNG) than any other country in the first half of 2023 (1H23), according to data from CEDIGAZ analyzed by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US LNG exports averaged 11.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) during this period, 4% (0.5 Bcf/d) more than in 1H22, according to data from the US Department of Energy’s LNG Reports.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

California is spending $38 million to help expand availability of EV fast-charging for low-income and disadvantaged communities. The California Energy Commission (CEC), the state's energy regulator, is now accepting applications for rebates that can be put toward the cost of installing DC fast-chargers with a minimum power rate of 150 kw by.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Analysts at UBS described the Chinese electric sedan as a great Model 3 alternative for a fraction of the cost.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SpaceX Vice President of Starlink, Jonathan Hofeller, said today that the company is no longer taking a hit financially for producing Starlink terminals as it recently moved on from subsidizing the antennas customers use to access internet service. SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the antennas, which is a result of scaling production and expanding its service, which was activated in 2019 when the first 60 satellites were launched.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Smartville Inc., an EV battery-repurposing company, is unveiling the Smartville 360 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) during the RE+ 2023 conference in Las Vegas. The Smartville 360 BESS is a fully integrated, turnkey energy storage system that combines high-quality repurposed automotive lithium-ion battery from multiple automotive makes and models that meet Smartville’s specifications matched with proprietary safety and life-cycle optimization controls.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Which automaker teased the 800-volt future of its EVs sized like Model 3 and Model Y? Which automaker is using a biogas-fed hydrogen fuel-cell plant to power its largest U.S. port? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 8, 2023. The Polestar 2 is entering its fourth.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The rise of small EVs is finally happening Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 41% in July 2023 compared to July 2022, rising to 1,104,00 units. In the end, plugins represented 16% share of the overall auto market (11% BEV share alone).

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