Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

C-Job Naval Architects has designed a new class of liquid hydrogen tanker in partnership with LH2 Europe. LH2 Europe will use the abundant renewable electricity in Scotland to produce green hydrogen and market it at a competitive price with diesel. The new tanker will transport the liquid hydrogen to terminals in Germany, with a strategic vision to expand supply to other markets as demand increases.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 3, 2022

Lexus and Toyota might not be asleep at the EV wheel after all. The automaker, known for biding its time and taking a cautious long-game approach on anything that it sees going big, appears to be applying the same mindset here. In an interview with Lexus chief engineer Takashi Watanabe at a prototype drive for the 2023 Lexus RZ 450e in Barcelona.

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2022

Offshore construction work has officially started for the UK’s Dogger Bank, which will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, with the installation of the first length of HVDC export cable off the Yorkshire coast. Dogger Bank will also be the first HVDC-connected wind farm in the UK. more…. The post Construction of the world’s largest offshore wind farm has begun appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

MAY 4, 2022

Today, Clearpath Robotics is opening pre-orders for the newest, fanciest TurtleBot: the TurtleBot 4. Built on top of iRobot’s Create 3 in close partnership with Open Robotics, the TurtleBot 4 is “the next-generation of the world’s most popular open-source robotics platform for education and research, offering superior computing power, more payload capacity, improved sensors, and a world class user experience at an affordable price.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Volvo Trucks and Bucher Municipal have now entered into a collaboration to electrify sewer cleaner trucks. By the end of 2023, Bucher Municipal expects to deliver up to 80 fully electric sewer cleaner trucks to cities in Europe. The introduction of more zero emission zones in cities around the world is generating demand for fully electric trucks. To meet this demand, Bucher Municipal, a leading supplier of municipal vehicles such as street sweepers, winter maintenance equipment, refuse vehicles,

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2022

Electrify America on Monday released a few tidbits of network-usage data from 2021, showing a major uptick in charging sessions over 2020. The company said in a press release that it provided 1.45 million charging sessions in 2021, which is more than five times the 268,000 charging sessions reported for 2020. Electrify America dispensed 41.4.

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Electrek

MAY 2, 2022

For the first time ever, California, the world’s fifth-largest economy, was powered by 100% clean energy on Saturday, April 30. That milestone was driven largely by solar power. more…. The post California runs on 100% clean energy for the first time, with solar dominating appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

California’s EV market continues to grow, according to data gathered by Veloz , a non-profit which tracks and reports on growing electric vehicle (EV) sales data in California, market trends, and infrastructure build-out. Q1 2022 was the state’s strongest quarter for electric vehicle sales to date, with 81,292 electric vehicles sold—29% higher than last quarter.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2022

Electric vehicle sales were at a record level both in California and nationally, according to numbers released by the California Energy Commission and interpreted by the electric vehicle advocacy organization Veloz this past week. And once again, they were led by Tesla—by an astounding lead, despite a series of price hikes. Californians.

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2022

Now more than a third of the way through 2022, SpaceX remains firmly on track to hit CEO Elon Musk’s target of an average of one Falcon rocket launch per week throughout the year. SpaceX aced its 17th launch of 2022 – Starlink 4-16 – on April 29th, wrapping up the first four months of the year with almost exactly one launch per week, on average.

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MAY 3, 2022

Tesla says it will turn Shanghai into “the world’s largest vehicle export hub” with a new factory capable of producing 450,000 electric vehicles per year, next to the existing plant. more…. The post Tesla says it will turn Shanghai into ‘the world’s largest vehicle export hub’ with new factory appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, improved when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered by electricity. Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. In the fall of 2019, all-electric buses were introduced on bus route 60 in Gothenburg.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2022

Tesla's recent move to stop including its mobile charger as standard equipment has raised eyebrows, but Tesla isn't the automaker to do that recently. Tesla removed the mobile charger, which is a cable with a NEMA 14-50 plug that allows cars to charge directly from those outlets, in late April. Explaining the decision, CEO Elon Musk claimed on.

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2022

Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) is preparing for a “monstrous” second quarter as Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research released a new note this morning that indicates the Fremont factory in Northern California is running as much as 20 percent above capacity. On the heels of its biggest quarter in company history, Tesla is working to keep its streak of growth in vehicle deliveries intact.

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MAY 5, 2022

Sweden saw plugin electric vehicles take 48.2% market share in April, up from 43.1% YoY. Overall auto market volume, at 21,942 units, was flat YoY, though 2022 YTD volume remains down 19% from last year. Sweden’s best selling auto was the Kia Niro. Market Share Trends April’s combined plugin result of 48.2% comprised 24.7% full […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

Rheinmetall has developed a new glass fiber suspension spring. In cooperation with a premium OEM, the Düsseldorf-based technology group has now presented this product in a prototype testbed vehicle. Featuring a patented design, the new spring won over the automaker due primarily to its significant weight advantage in the unsprung mass as well as its performance.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2022

Stellantis will buy the Share Now car-sharing joint venture from BMW and Mercedes-Benz, incorporating it into Stellantis' own Free2Move service. The companies didn't disclose a selling price, but Bloomberg reported that it could have been around $260 million. Share Now was formed by BMW and Mercedes in 2019 from car-sharing services the two German.

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2022

Tesla set the date for its 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting on Thursday, August 4. The meeting will take place at Tesla’s new headquarters in Austin, Texas. Tesla shareholders are expected to vote on a stock split during the meeting. The precise stock split ratios have yet to be determined. Tesla's 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting will be on August 4th in Austin, TX.

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2022

Tesla is going to supply up to 8 MWh of Powerpacks for SpaceX to expand its solar farm at Starbase in Boca Chica. It’s the latest of many collaborations between Tesla and SpaceX. more…. The post Tesla to supply up to 8 MWh of Powerpacks for SpaceX’s Starbase solar farm appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Daimler Buses 2 -neutral-vehicles-in-every-segment-by-2030--dual-track-strategy-based-on-batteries-and-hydrogen.xhtml?oid=51925779">aims to offer locally CO 2 -neutral vehicles based on batteries and hydrogen in every segment by 2030. The initial focus will be on the core markets of Europe and Latin America. By 2039, only locally CO 2 -neutral new vehicles are to be sold in the core market of Europe.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2022

General Motors has remedied nearly half the vehicles in an expanded, ongoing Chevrolet Bolt EV battery recall, according to a quarterly report on the recall campaign published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Wednesday. First spotted by Reddit users, the report shows that as of April 22, 26,925 vehicles out of a total.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 4, 2022

Tesla is now making more money than General Motors and Ford. A recent article in The Street highlighted this Tesla achievement, noting that the world leader in EVs is taking trophies won by both GM and Ford for decades. The article commented that although everyone knows the path forward is electrification, other than Tesla, it’s […].

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2022

The Green League, an environmental group, has launched an effort to revoke Tesla’s operating license for Gigafactory Berlin after learning of a significant paint leak. more…. The post Environmental group asks for Tesla Giga Berlin’s operating license to be revoked after paint leak appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The European Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst (AECC) presented its zero-impact emissions demonstrator car at the Vienna Motor Symposium, 27-29 April. The demonstrator reduces pollutant emissions across a wide range of driving conditions using advanced emission control technologies with an electrified combustion engine (48V mild hybrid).

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Green Car Reports

MAY 3, 2022

As it gets ready to deliver the first F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks to customers, Ford has confirmed pricing for the trucks' home backup power system hardware. Customers wanting to use their pickups as a backup power source will first need the Ford Charge Station Pro, Matthew Stover, the automaker's director of charging and energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 4, 2022

After entering the S&P 500 in 2020, Tesla has continued to rapidly grow. And a new report shows that the automaker could be poised to dominate the rest of the index by the end of the decade, especially with the company’s position amidst a burgeoning EV and autonomous driving industry. Tesla may be severely undervalued, […].

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Teslarati

MAY 1, 2022

Tesla Giga Shanghai has resumed over 80% production along with several other companies, according to Chinese official Zhang Hongtao — the chief engineer of the Shanghai Economics and Information Technology Commission. China created a “whitelist” to support companies resuming production and minimize the impact of Covid along the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

Using a hematite photocatalyst, a team led by researchers from Kobe University has succeeded in producing both hydrogen gas and hydrogen peroxide at the same time from sunlight and water. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. Hydrogen has gained attention as one of the possible next generation energy sources. Ideally, photocatalysts could use sunlight and water to produce hydrogen, however it is necessary to achieve a conversion rate of 10% to enable such a syst

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Green Car Reports

MAY 5, 2022

Part of what makes the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and its close cousin, the Kia EV6, so noteworthy in the market is that they’re capable of taking advantage of 350-kw CCS connectors, and their faster-charging power levels allowed by 800-volt charging systems. On those 350-kw connectors, in ideal conditions, that can assure a road-trip charge from 10%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 3, 2022

As Tesla prepares for another stock split, analysts are pondering what to expect from retail investors. At the same time, many retail investors are also wondering if it’s worth upping their portion of the automaker’s shares before the stock split. Tesla’s impressive first-quarter earnings and overall valuation could trigger another surge in retail investors ahead […].

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Electrek

MAY 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy announced today a new $3 billion program going toward battery manufacturing and supply chain to support the transition to electric vehicles. more…. The post US Dept of Energy announces $3 billion toward EV battery manufacturing and supply chain appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

All regions of the world do not—and will not—experience the effects of CO 2 emissions in the same way. Some will suffer greatly from climate change, while others may even benefit. These heterogeneous effects mean that different countries will have differing incentives to abide by the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming below 2 °C relative to pre-Industrial levels.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 6, 2022

As part of a quarterly update Thursday, Lucid confirmed a price hike across its model line, and it confirmed that it’s still on track for producing 12,000 to 14,000 vehicles by the end of the year. During the first quarter of 2022, Lucid delivered 360 vehicles—up from 125 in the fourth quarter of 2021. And perhaps confirming that the.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 4, 2022

Shanghai authorities are working closely with Tesla to help it reopen Giga Shanghai after it paused production for 22 days in the broader effort in the city to curb the spread of Covid-19. Reuters reported on the story and shared details about a letter from Tesla to Shanghai’s Lingang Special Area, which shared what the […].

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