13 May 2024 11:23:50 UTC
CURATED EV NEWS ABSTRACTS
How the Massive EV Transition Is Starting In the Car Rental Industry
19 Jun 2022 | Abstracted from CNBC
Hertz.."boldly announced a $4.2 billion deal to purchase 100,000 Tesla fully electric vehicles (EVs) by the end of 2022."
"While Hertz was first off the starting blocks, its two biggest rivals, Enterprise Holdings and Avis Budget Group, have since joined in...
"..it’s unknown how many Teslas are available in the more than 30 markets currently offering EVs, which now also include the first of the 65,000 Polestar 2s.." Read Full Story
Electrified Lamborghinis Will Still Look Like 'Spaceships’' Design Head Says
19 Jun 2022 | Abstracted from The Drive
"...future electrified cars will continue Lamborghini's tradition of radical styling: "They will always look like spaceships, always be inspiring, always cars that with whatever technology they have will have the sound and the emotion to touch you..."
We aren't likely to see something as wild looking as the Terzo Millennio [pictured here] for awhile, though, as fully-electric Lamborghinis are still pretty far away." Read Full Story
No Petrol, No Cars, No Problem : Cubans Turn to Electric Transport
19 Jun 2022 | Abstracted from TechXplore
"In a once-abandoned Soviet-era truck factory in the central city of Santa Clara, about 100 workers of the company Minerva assemble electric vehicles with parts imported from China or Vietnam.
"The objective for 2022 is to produce 10,000 electric motorbikes...double the factory's previous record - as well as 2,000 three-wheelers." Read Full Story
Quantum Charging Can Charge EVs As Fast As Pumping Gas
19 Jun 2022 | Abstracted from The Brighterside
"...concept of "quantum battery" first proposed...in 2012...theorized that quantum resources, such as entanglement, can be used to vastly speed up the battery charging process by charging all cells within the battery simultaneously in a collective manner.
"Employing this quantum charging would lead to a 200 times speedup over classical batteries, which means...at home charging time would be cut from 10 hours to about 3 minutes."Read Full Story