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Equinor contracts for first green-ammonia-fueled supply vessel; 2MW SOFC

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Norway-based energy company Equinor has contracted with Eidesvik Offshore for the Viking Energy supply vessel, which is being retrofitted to make it capable of covering long distances fueled by carbon-free ammonia. The vessel will transport supplies to installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The Viking Energy. (Photo: Eidesvik Offshore).

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Hyundai and Kia invest in UK electric commercial-vehicle maker Arrival

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The UK-based electric-vehicle startup Arrival has already earned plenty of attention over the past couple of years for its refreshingly different, futuristic and eye-catching electric commercial-vehicle designs. As much as the designs are a standout—the company’s Royal Mail vans, for instance—the nature of the $110 billion.

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23 strange things about life in America

Gavin Shoebridge

After moving from New Zealand to the USA in 2019, I noticed some striking cultural differences and curiosities about Americans and life[.]. The post 23 strange things about life in America appeared first on GavinShoebridge.com.

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The Top 20 EVs of 2020

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We might only be a couple of weeks into 2020, but already there is much to look forward to in terms of high-profile EV launches this year. In fact, over the next 11-and-a-bit months the choice of EVs in the UK is going to experience an unprecedented uplift.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Wyoming leads in vehicle miles traveled per person

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by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. Total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by all vehicles in the United States vary greatly across the individual states. The latest annual data from the Federal Highway Administration show that in 2018 the maximum (348,796 million miles in California) was 94.5 times greater than the minimum (3,691 million miles in the District of Columbia).

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New Jersey approves $5,000 EV rebate, charging infrastructure, electric transit

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New Jersey made a big move last week to back up its Garden State motto, with one of the greenest state plans for encouraging electric vehicles in the nation. The legislation, passed last Monday and then signed by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy on Friday, Under it, a state program, which takes effect immediately, allocates $300 million over 10.

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Kia aims to sell 500,000 EVs annually

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Kia has laid out its strategy for the next five years and it's one that will see both a growing model line-up of electrified vehicles, and ambitious goals for how many of these it will sell. However, this transition doesn't come without trade-offs, as the company is looking to bankroll it by selling more combustion-powered SUVs.

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Volvo Cars says early demand for fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge P8 AWD is strong

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Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. The company says it has already received “several thousands” of firm orders even before the formal start of sales. Production and the first customer deliveries of the XC40 Recharge P8 are scheduled to begin later this year.

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Mercedes unfazed by battery-supply issues for EQC, still targeting 50,000 in 2020

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The Mercedes-Benz EQC electric SUV was originally supposed to be on U.S. streets and highways by now. Daimler called the decision to delay sales in the U.S. until 2021 a strategic one, so it could focus on Europe. Yet based on a report from Reuters, citing sales figures, Mercedes has struggled to sell a fraction of what it intended, even there.

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Zero Electric Plane

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“It’s a conceptual billboard that [is designed to] arrest people for a moment,” says Doucet. “At its lowest point of impact, it would make people question, ‘Why aren’t there electric commuter planes?’ At the highest impact, producers of short-haul flights, everyone from Airbus and Boeing to your Bombardiers and Gulfstreams, [ are realizing that] beginning an R&D program might be of medium- and long-term interest to their businesses.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Tesla Model Y – what we can expect

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Arguably the brand that has done the most for the profile of EVs is Tesla. For many people Tesla is almost a byword for 'electric car', and the brand has had pretty significant success in recent years, led by the Model S and followed-up with the Model X and Model 3. The Model Y sits between the latter two in the line-up, but what can we expect from it?

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Dutch-Belgian truck company orders five Proton HyRange hydrogen fuel-cell systems for refuse trucks; EU project REVIVE

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E-Trucks Europe , a manufacturer of electric-hydrogen hybrid commercial vehicles, has ordered five HyRange fuel cell systems from Proton Motor. The five hydrogen fuel cell systems will be used to outfit electric refuse trucks as part of the EU project REVIVE (Refuse Vehicle Innovation and Validation in Europe). The tender, which runs from 2018 to 2021, aims to build and put into operation 15 electric vehicles for the collection of waste in Europe.

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Electric emergency vehicles: Tropos Motors shows how to start small

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The larger-scale electrification of big, task-oriented municipal vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and even dump trucks is bound to happen eventually. Sometimes, the bluntest, heaviest tool for the job really isn’t the best one for the task anyway. And a startup called Tropos Motors aims to prove exactly that point—by making.

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Pigeon Bot

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This drone uses feathers to control its flight. [link]. The post Pigeon Bot appeared first on Spark Powered.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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DS 7 CROSSBACK E-TENSE 4x4 review

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With a 31 mile range, 300hp and four-wheel drive the quickest and greenest version of DS Automobile’s SUV sounds good on paper. We drive the long-awaited plug-in variant of the 7 CROSSBACK to see if it’s worth the rather steep £47,725 price tag.

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OXIS Energy Li-S cells close to achieving 500Wh/kg; targeting 600Wh/kg with solid-state Li-S technology

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OXIS Energy has successfully tested its Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell prototypes at 471Wh/kg and is confident of achieving 500Wh/kg in the next 12 months. Consistently shipping cells at 400Wh/kg to its clients in Europe, the US and Japan, OXIS is collaborating with major European chemical partners to develop an advanced lithium metal protection mechanism to ensure a significant improvement in the Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) life cycle.

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Cruise Origin launches the driverless future of electric mobility

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During the launch of the Cruise Origin driverless car, GM’s Cruise declared driving as we know it—and ride-sharing as we know it—obsolete. “This is the end of the human-driven, gasoline-powered single-occupant car, and the beginning of the future—the future beyond the car,” boomed a voice. The Origin seats six.

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Model 3 drivers age

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From a bloomberg survey : the M3 drivers main age category is 30 to 40 years old. A car for millenials and Generation Xers !!

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New flagship Toyota RAV4 PHEV launched

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Toyota’s latest RAV4 may have been launched nearly a year ago, but in that time its proven just how effective the brand’s gamble on hybrids has been. Of 130,000 new RAV4s ordered since launch in western Europe, 115,000 of them have been hybrids. Now, the D-segment SUV is getting the PHEV treatment.

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Hydrogen Council report finds cost of hydrogen solutions to fall sooner than previously expected

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The Hydrogen Council has published a new report, Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A Cost Perspective , demonstrating that the cost of hydrogen solutions will fall sharply within the next decade, sooner than previously expected. As scale-up of production, distribution and equipment manufacturing continues, cost is projected to decrease by up to 50% by 2030 for a wide range of applications, making hydrogen financially competitive with other low-carbon alternatives and, in some cases, even convent

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FIat Chrysler and iPhone maker head toward electric-vehicle venture

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If you thought the idea of a Sony electric car at CES 2020—hypothetical as it might be—earlier this month was wild, what about the idea of Fiat Chrysler working together with Foxconn to develop electric cars? Yes, that’s the same Foxconn that’s probably best known for making the iPhone you hold close—and maybe the one.

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Model 3 Autonomy record by French Journalists

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French journalists ( Caradisiac ) drove around Paris every EV on the market till the battery dies. The result : TESLA Model 3 achieved an amazing 772 km with a single charge.

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Ford invests big in hybrid and battery production

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Ford is speeding up its drive into electrified vehicles with a €42m investment in its Valencia manufacturing plant. Bringing the facility bang up to date will gear it up for production of the forthcoming S-MAX and Galaxy self-charging hybrids.

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ORNL advancing LDH sorbent to recover lithium from geothermal brine wastes

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Domestic production of lithium, the lightest of elemental metals, is considered a priority for the US. It is essential for the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries commonly used for everything from electric vehicles to cell phones and laptops. However, lithium is sourced almost exclusively from other countries, either concentrated using a solar evaporation process from natural brine sources or recovered from ore.

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Volvo to build electric XC90 and its battery packs in South Carolina in 2022

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Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston. Now Volvo has confirmed a battery plant will be part of a plant expansion to accommodate it and other.

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Arrival EV Delivery Vans

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Arrival has been a “stealth” startup. taking $100M from quiet donors. They have pulled back the veil. sort of. they’ve created a beautiful delivery van but are sparse on the details. [link]. The post Arrival EV Delivery Vans appeared first on Spark Powered.

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Government doubles funding for EV charge points - again

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In August last year Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced that the government was putting an additional £2.5 million into the fund for installing charge points on residential streets. That input of cash topped the fund up to £5 million, and now the government has rounded that up to a healthy £10 million.

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Volkswagen’s WeShare electric car-charing expands in Europe, fleet to increase to 8,400 EVs

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WeShare, Volkswagen and ŠKODA’s free-floating electric car sharing service, is to expand into seven more cities in Germany and other European countries in 2020. Prague and Hamburg in the spring are to be followed by Paris, Madrid, Budapest, Munich and Milan in the course of the year. In all these cities, WeShare will be offering an all-electric fleet with a total of about 8,400 electric vehicles.

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Canoo opens waitlist for subscription-only EV, offers Tesla-like referral perks

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The California-based mobility-services company Canoo has officially opened its waitlist. Canoo will be an automaker by some definitions, with a set of unique, futuristic vehicles; but it diverges from conventional automakers in nearly all other respects. Through an all-inclusive monthly subscription fee—wrapping in maintenance, insurance.

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Aiways to make European debut at Geneva Motor Show

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Aiways, the Shanghai-based manufacturer, will reveal the European version of its all-electric SUV at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

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Plug’n Drive launches $1,000 incentive to scrap a gas car PLUS $1,000 towards a Used EV

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Effective February 1, 2020, Ontario residents qualify for a new incentive of $1,000 if they scrap their old gas car and replace it with a used electric car. This program is being offered to encourage drivers to make the switch to low carbon transportation and reduce air pollution. The Scrappage Incentive is in addition to the Used EV Incentive program that launched in April 2019, which provides $1,000 off the purchase of a used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric car.

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DOE to award up to $133M for advanced vehicle technologies research

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $133 million in funding to support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies research. Funded through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002197 ) supports projects in advanced batteries and electrification in support of the recently announced DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge ( earlier post ).

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Analysis suggests Volkswagen electric-car targets are out of reach

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Last week, in a speech to executives in Germany, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was critical about the automaker’s pace so far toward electric vehicles. Diess underscored, according to the Financial Times, that shifting to electric vehicles would require “a radical change of direction”—to more of a tech company. Meanwhile, an.

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Renault to trial electrified roads so you can charge on the go

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Renault’s INCIT-EV project has announced it will begin trialling the use of contactless induction technology to charge electric vehicles on the move.