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The Critical Climate Change Solution That No One Is Talking About

24 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"...America's most overlooked climate and car-cutting solution: more development in neighborhoods where people don’t need to drive everywhere...researchers estimated that ambitious but realistic zoning reforms could cut vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by as much as 13 percent across the region over the next 17 years... earlier RMI modeling found that America needs to cut per-capita VMT by 20 percent and put 70 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 to meet our national climate targets..."

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Electric Vehicle Fleet Penetration Helps Address Inequalities In Air Quality and Improves Environmental Justice

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"Accelerated penetration of on-road electric vehicles offers regional and community-scale air quality benefits...This study evaluated six 2040 electric vehicle scenarios..Aggressive electric vehicle penetration reduced pollution exposure disparity by 30% for nitrogen dioxide and 14% for fine particulate matter...Results suggest policies that encourage accelerated electric vehicle penetration will address inequalities in air pollution and help

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Hybrid to Hell: How Toyota Went From Green Darling to Activist Target

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"...fast-forward a generation and the politics of clean energy - and motoring - have changed. The world is ramping up efforts to rapidly decarbonise as the impacts of climate change bite harder...Toyota stands accused of using its lobbying might around the world, and in Australia, to delay the transition...Toyota startled some of its fans by backing the Trump administration's efforts to wind back Obama-era standards..."

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Former GM President, Lloyd Reuss, the First to Champion EVs, Dies At Age 86

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"On Aug. 1, 1990, GM named Lloyd Reuss president. He was an early supporter of the GM Impact, a concept car that debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show. It became the GM EV1, the predecessor to today’s electric vehicles...Reuss and then CEO Robert Stempel, who was the first engineer to hold GM's top job since the 1950s, were forced out when GM's board and its director, John Smale, purged the executive ranks.

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I Took an All-Electric Road Trip in California - Here's What Surprised Me the Most

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"Over the course of the next three and a half days, I drove about 300 miles..My biggest concern at the beginning of this EV road trip was running out of battery life in the middle of nowhere...I never got in a situation where it got really, really close...charging stations were pretty common along my route...you don't have to do a full charge every time. Within 30 minutes, you really get a lot of power...Once I was done charging, I was surprised how cheap it was when compared with gas."

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Tesla Gives Update On Its Game-Changing 4680 Battery Cell

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

Tesla has "established a cost-down roadmap through 2026 across five areas of effort...cell design, anode and cathode materials, the structural pack concept, and the cell factory itself...in production with not only the first generation tabless cell we unveiled on Battery Day but a second more manufacturable version in Texas today...On cathode production, we are 50% equipment and 75% utilities installed at our new cathode building in Austin...goal to begin dry and wet commissioning this quarter...target to produce first material before the end of the year."

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A Hurricane Kills Your Power. How Do You Charge Your Electric Vehicle? FPL Has a Solution.

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"Florida Power & Light on Thursday unveiled its own mobile electric-vehicle charging station to be used during hurricane evacuations, in areas with power outages and in other scenario... FPL’s 39-foot mobile trailer can be sent out into communities to fast-charge up to six cars at a time with a 1.3-megawatt battery, which has the capacity to offer roughly 4,000 miles of range.

"The Juno Beach-based utility plans to have a second mobile charging station ready for use sometime during this hurricane season."

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California Hits Ambitious Goal for Electric Cars TwoYears Early

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

New data out Friday show that motorists in California have bought 1.5 million electric vehicles since 2011 - 40% of all electric vehicle sales in the United States - surpassing a goal set by former Gov. Jerry Brown two years early...by March 31, the total had already reached 1,523,966...The auto industry, which has 115 models of electric vehicles for sale in California now, up from 46 in 2019, did not oppose the new rules..."

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Groundbreaking Solar Reactor Efficiently Generates Oxygen, Hydrogen and Usable Heat

23 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"The hydrogen production rate achieved in this work represents a significant step towards the commercial realization of this technology. With an output power of over 2 kilowatts, the team has cracked the 1-kilowatt ceiling for their pilot reactor...The EPFL campus system has an output level of about half a kilogram of solar hydrogen per day. This amount could power around 1.5 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles..."

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Surging Electric Vehicle Demand Causing States to Pump the Brakes on EV Incentives

21 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"...The overwhelming demand is causing some states to temporarily pause EV incentives designed to promote adoption...The overwhelming demand is causing some states to temporarily pause EV incentives designed to promote adoption...total US auto sales fell 8% year-over-year (YoY) from 2021, but EV sales climbed 65%, passing 800,000 in volume for the first time...New Jersey has become the latest state to temporarily suspend its rebate program..."

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