Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Israel-based Aquarius Engines unveiled a hydrogen-fueled version of its free-piston linear engine new hydrogen engine. The 10kg machine, based on the same technology as the original patented single-piston linear engine, operates exclusively on hydrogen. The new Aquarius Hydrogen Engine’s lightweight design and unique internal-gas-exchange-method would greatly reduce emissions and lower the global carbon footprint.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2021

The startup WattEV aims to build a 25-megawatt electric-only truck stop in Bakersfield, California, with charging powered by a solar array. The site will be open to the public, but WattEV also plans to use the charging stations for its own fleet of vehicles. While a 25-MW capacity, with 40 charging stalls, is the long-term goal, the site will.

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Electrek

MAY 21, 2021

Ford confirmed that it has received more than 44,000 reservations for the new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. It’s tracking a bit behind the Tesla Cybertruck, but it’s still doing good. more… The post Ford has received more than 44,000 reservations for F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 21, 2021

Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris Tesla is the world’s largest automaker by market cap, by far the world’s biggest seller of EVs, and surely the most talked-about and argued-over automaker in recent memory. Now the iconoclastic innovator has earned another superlative — according to a study by the financial comparison website Money.co.uk, TSLA stock […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers across the country, with the option for fleet customers to access Ford’s complete ecosystem of connected data and telematics services via Ford Commercial Solutions.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2021

Production of the 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV and 2022 Chevy Bolt EV has started, and first cars are already shipping out to dealerships, GM confirmed Monday to Green Car Reports Amid many delayed rollouts and arrivals, due to microchips and supply-chain issues, that’s about a month earlier than GM suggested earlier this year. Both models, built in.

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2021

It’s now official. The next-generation Tesla Roadster, when fitted with its SpaceX Package, would be capable of sprinting from 0-60 mph in 1.1 seconds. This insane piece of information was confirmed recently by CEO Elon Musk on Twitter. . Visitors of the next-generation Tesla Roadster exhibit at the Petersen Auto Museum observed something interesting in the vehicle’s information panel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Washington State University researchers have developed an innovative way to convert waste polyethylene plastic to ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost-effective to reuse plastics. The researchers in their reaction were able to convert 90% of plastic to jet fuel and other valuable hydrocarbon products within an hour at moderate temperatures and to fine-tune the process easily to create the products that they want.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2021

How do you make the shift to electric vehicles feel real to vast swaths of America? Make a fully electric pickup truck. Make that the best-selling truck in history, the F-150. And then price it at what can amount to less than the gasoline version. That’s exactly what Ford has done. With the arrival of the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning revealed.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2021

Soaring gas prices in Myrtle Beach led to a notable increase in Tesla vehicle rentals this month. ABC15 News reported that Tesla Fleet Myrtle Beach, an EV rental company, experienced a boost in its EV rental business that was fueled by the gas shortage. The owner, Jerry Stovall, noted that drivers were playing “finders keepers.” […].

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Teslarati

MAY 21, 2021

When the Tesla Model Y was released, some reviewers of the vehicle proved a bit surprised to find that the all-electric crossover had a dedicated Off-Road Assist feature. The Model Y, after all, is an EV that’s optimized for city roads, as strongly suggested by its low ground clearance. Initial tests of stock Model Ys showed that the vehicle could take on the occasional grassy path with Off-Road Assist, but very little else. .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and lithium-ion battery manufacturer and developer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) are intensifying their existing partnership based on their shared vision of CO 2 -neutral electrified trucking. CATL will be the supplier of lithium-ion battery packs for the Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul battery-electric truck, which is planned to be ready for series production in 2024.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2021

Fisker founder Henrik Fisker reportedly presented his vision of tailpipe-emissions-free transport to Pope Francis in a private meeting on Thursday, during a visit to Vatican City. And it’s one based on Fisker’s upcoming Ocean electric SUV. “I got inspired reading that Pope Francis is very considerate about the environment and the.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2021

BMW Group has set a goal of reducing its CO2 emissions by over 200 million tonnes by the year 2030. Earlier this month the company announced this goal at its Annual General Meeting. This equals well over 20 times the annual CO2 emissions of a city with over a million inhabitants, such as Munich, the […].

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MAY 20, 2021

After securing yet another contract, SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets are now scheduled to launch at least six commercial Moon landers over the next two and a half years. On May 20th, rocket startup Firefly Aerospace announced that it had selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch its first Blue Ghost Moon lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Chevrolet has begun shipping the new 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV and redesigned 2022 Bolt EV to dealers and expects them to arrive on dealer lots soon. ( Earlier post.) Along with broadening the brand’s electric vehicle lineup, the Bolt EUV is the first Chevrolet vehicle to offer Super Cruise, the industry’s first true hands-free driver assistance system for enabled roads. 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2021

Startup Canoo confirmed pricing on Monday for its first electric vehicles, but with no mention of the subscription model that was originally touted as one of the company's distinguishing features. Pricing for Canoo's first model—a minivan now dubbed the "Lifestyle Vehicle"—will range from $34,750 to $49,950, the company said in a press.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2021

The Ford F-150 Lightning is a major entrant into the US auto market. That’s right, not just the electric vehicle market, but the overall auto market. This is no “compliance car,” as Ford’s head of BEVs (fully electric vehicles) told me, and Ford didn’t electrify its two biggest nameplates — the F-150 and the Mustang […].

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Electrek

MAY 20, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is updating the new Roadster design, and it looks like it’s going to achieve a 0-60 mph acceleration in a mind-boggling 1.1 seconds with the SpaceX package. more… The post Tesla is updating Roadster design, 0-60 mph in mind-boggling 1.1 sec with SpaceX package? appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

The BMW Group is stepping up its activities in the field of sustainability, becoming the first automotive manufacturer worldwide to equip its cars with tires using certified sustainable natural rubber and rayon, a wood-based material used to strengthen the tires. The company will source 22-inch tires in the first instance exclusively from Pirelli and, from August of this year, will use them in the BMW X5 xDrive45e Plug-in-Hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2021

A group of Harvard researchers announced last week that they have designed a stable lithium-metal solid-state battery that can be charged and discharged at least 10,000 times “at a high current density.” Lithium-metal solid-state battery cells are widely seen as an important piece of the future for electric cars within the next.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2021

Ford is in the spotlight this week with the unveiling of its new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. It promises to be an impressive EV with a starting price of under $40,000 and an optional range of over 300 miles (at a higher price, of course). The fully electric vehicle is based on Ford’s wildly […].

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2021

Rumors of a Tesla Gigafactory in the United Kingdom are surging after a brief visit from CEO Elon Musk in Luton, a town in South East England. Musk made the visit on his way to Germany, where he was set to visit Tesla’s Giga Berlin production facility. Earlier this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited Giga Berlin , but he stopped in the UK for a short time, according to his plane tracker.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Daimler Trucks is focusing on hydrogen-powered fuel-cells for the electrification of its vehicles for flexible and demanding long-haul transport. It aims to achieve ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers and more without any stops for refueling. In late April, the truck manufacturer began to conduct rigorous tests of the first new enhanced prototype of its Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck, which was unveiled in 2020.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2021

Following through with its plan to add new features via over-the-air (OTA) software updates, Ford on Thursday announced an update for the Mustang Mach-E that will bring enhanced Amazon Alexa connectivity, BlueCruise driver-assist tech, and other features to the electric SUV. The first Ford Power-Up software updates (there's always a brand name.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2021

Back in 2019, we reported that you wouldn’t be able to buy one of the Canoo lifestyle vehicles, but you would be able to get a subscription for one. Canoo even opened up reservations for the subscriptions in early 2020. Its subscription approach seemed novel and disruptive, but it is now apparently on the shelf. […].

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2021

An information panel for the next-generation Tesla Roadster at the Petersen Auto Museum has provided a shocking teaser for the vehicle’s SpaceX Package. As per the museum’s information panel, the new Tesla Roadster SpaceX Package would be able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 1.1 seconds, a figure that is “unprecedented among modern road cars.” .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Wabtec Corporation announced that its FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive—functioning as one unit in a consist also containing two Tier 4 locomotives—delivered more than an 11% average reduction in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for an entire train—the equivalent of more than 6,200 gallons of diesel fuel saved and approximately 69 tons of CO 2 emissions reduced.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2021

Fisker and Sharp on Monday announced an agreement to develop and product interior interface technologies for up to four upcoming electric vehicles. The agreement would mean that Sharp will supply screens and other components, with “class-leading resolution balanced with optimized power consumption,” to a series of upcoming Fisker.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2021

$39,974! Yes, that’s just the base MSRP and is for a version of the truck with 230 miles of range (rather than 300 miles of range), but that’s a shockingly low price for the entry Ford F-150 Lightning. No one was expecting that. I did not see a single person predicting the F-150 Lightning would […].

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2021

Tesla’s next-generation Roadster is officially on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and spectators are getting their first glimpses of the all-electric supercar. Last week, it was announced that the Tesla Roadster would arrive at the Petersen Auto Museum for a two-week-long appearance in its own specialized exhibit. Tesla’s “halo car,” as it has been described in the past, is on display from today, May 19th, until June 2nd, 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. This project is enabled by a DOE-exercised option of a previous MP Materials and UK conceptual study in 2020.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2021

Tesla Model Y electric crossovers built at the automaker's new Texas factory will use new 4680-format cells, as opposed to the 2170-format used in versions of the Model Y currently made at the automaker's Fremont, California, factory. First spotted by InsideEVs, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed this in a Twitter exchange Tuesday. When asked if Tesla.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2021

We’re going to get more details on the fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning later this evening, but there’s no doubt about it: Ford isn’t electrifying its two biggest nameplates without caring how they turn out. I think that Ford executives, like executives at pretty much all major automakers, know that the future of the automobile […].

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