EDITOR'S CHOICE

Can Electric Vehicles Be Hacked?

24 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"Sandia National Laboratories investigated multiple attack vectors and vulnerabilities on these [charging] stations and found many areas where existing systems can be compromised. Common impacts could include disabling and intercepting vehicle-to-charger communication, system reconfiguration through compromised Wi-Fi or USB ports..."

Hackers can intercept wireless fob signals to trick the car's perception of the location of the fob."

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The Great Electrician Shortage

24 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"Going green will depend on blue-collar workers. Can we train enough of them before time runs out?

"...the annual mean wage for plumbers and electricians is about sixty-three thousand dollars, or roughly the same as that for high-school teachers... According to a recent report published by Associated Builders and Contractors, job openings in the construction industry averaged three hundred and ninety thousand a month in 2022."

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Electric Cars: Charging In 10 Minutes Has Become A Reality

24 Apr 2023 | Synopsis

"...feat is made possible due to the Qilin CTP 3.0 battery developed by Chinese giant CATL, which offers a range of up to 1,000 kilometers and can recover 400 kilometers of autonomy in about ten minutes...The new electric car from Li Auto is predicted to have an 800-volt architecture. It will also have a 480 kW terminal that can be used by all electric car owners, regardless of the brand..developing its own terminal that will compete directly with Xpeng?s terminal and surpass Tesla Superchargers with their 250 kW."

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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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