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How China Became An Electric Car Giant

30 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"In 2021, the country imported twice as many vehicles as it exported, in value terms. In the first half of 2023, the Chinese industry overtook Japan to become the world leader...

"Wielding the carrot and the stick, China has been pushing investment in the sector since 2009...in 2015, China supported the battery sector by requiring automakers to use Chinese batteries in order to benefit from purchase subsidies..In 2016, Shanghai introduced green license plates for electric vehicles, which exempted them from the road space rationing..."

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The 'New Abnormal': The Rise Of Extreme Flooding, Briefly Explained

30 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"As the Earth gets warmer, the atmosphere is able to hold more water...A 1 degree Centigrade increase in the atmosphere's temperature corresponds to a 7 percent increase in water vapor...

"One of the signatures of climate change is an increase in both extreme heat and extreme precipitation. And this is true almost everywhere.

"[In] another 10 or 20 years, we won't be thinking they're so abnormal, because these things are going to be happening more and more frequently."

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Full Speed Ahead: Recurrent Auto Study Reveals Impacts of Fast Charging on Tesla Models 3 and Y EVs

29 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"Recurrent studied fast charging on over 12,500 Tesla vehicles in the US to learn if the software and safety mechanisms in the battery management system (BMS) prevent damage to the battery.

"The results show no statistically significant difference in range degradation between Teslas that fast charge more than 90% of the time and those that fast charge less than 10% of the time."

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Beta's Electric Aircraft Completes First International Flight To Montreal

29 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"Beta test pilot Chris Caputo piloted the 30-minute flight covering 64 miles (55 nautical miles)...traveling through the busy airspace of a Class B airport, which typically sees up to an average of 53,000 passengers per day.

"The company currently has chargers online at 13 sites from Vermont to Arkansas to Georgia, with more than 50 additional sites in permitting or construction along the East and Gulf Coast."

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Saudi Arabia Wants To Become A Force In Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

29 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"...it wants to make 500,000 evs a year by 2030, roughly equivalent to annual demand for cars in Saudi Arabia today.

"Hyundai...has agreed to build a factory to assemble its vehicles in the country. Tesla, the world's largest full ev producer, is said to be in talks about setting up a manufacturing facility...Lucid...opened a factory near Jeddah...its EV efforts are a serious attempt on the part of the world''s biggest oil exporter to diversify its economy and create new industries in anticipation of the bigger changes coming down the road."

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Toyota France To Sell E-Cargobikes In 170 Dealerships From October

29 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"The Toyota/Douze bike can carry bulky and heavy loads up to 100kgs, either on the floor of the front platform or in a 300-liter front box...its French arm is to start selling electric cargo bikes in 170 dealerships in France...this is a 'serious project' and very much not a 'gimmick.'

"The $6,500 bike goes on sale next month. Companies in France can access electric cargobike subsidies of $1,000 per bike."

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"Deep concern": Shell Employees Urge CEO To Rethink Shift From Renewables In Rare Letter

29 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"...Shell boss Wael Sawan announced plans to scale back investments in renewable energy...Co-authors Lisette de Heiden and Wouter Drinkwaard took issue with this in their letter, which received 80,000 views, 1,000 likes and many heated comments...Only 1.5 per cent of its overall expenditure is spent on solar and wind power generation...Shell still aims to be a net zero emissions company by 2050, including through investing in CO2 removal and nature-based carbon offsetting projects."

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New Data Explores Whether Teslas And Other EVs Are Stolen Less Than Other Vehicles

28 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"...data recently released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Highway Loss Data Institute, EVs are stolen much less frequently than gas-powered cars...The Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y had the lowest frequency of claims relative to vehicle population...Typically, electric vehicles are stolen less frequently than other models...because they are often parked overnight in well-lit and comparatively secure areas for charging..."

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The Micro-Mobility War: How Paris, One Of The World's Largest Scooter Rental Markets, Came To Ban Them

28 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"...the April referendum in which Parisians rose to vote on the future of the rental versions of the things. The vox populi was very nearly unanimous: The full-on ban of rental scooters earned an astonishing eighty-nine percent of the votes.

"Last year, there were three deaths from a total of 400-plus electric-mobility vehicles, which resulted in 459 people being injured..."

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Are A Hot Commercial Property Amenity

28 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"Most of the largest U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs) have prioritized building EV charging stations at their properties to draw more customers to commercial centers for longer periods of time.

"Simon Property Group, which has a network of 1,261 charging stations across its portfolio of properties...Essex Property Trust...574 charging station...A lot of REITS are deploying EV charging as amenity for their customers..."

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The Bold Idea To Move Millions To Climate Havens

28 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"The race against time to plan for climate migration has begun."

"...the World Bank predicts that climate change will compel as many as 216 million people to move elsewhere in their countries by 2050...ProPublica...estimates that at least 13 million Americans will be forced to migrate.

"Simply put, our habitable terrain is inescapably contracting...zones of economic activity shift and become more concentrated in the interior Northeast upper Midwest."

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It's Time To Fact-Check This Big GOP Claim On Biden's EV Revolution

28 Sep 2023 | Synopsis

"...the workers' real enemy wasn't the companies but President Joe Biden - because, allegedly, Biden's support for electric vehicles is decimating the industry and sending jobs to China."

"...that argument before because it's a favorite line of [four-time indicted] former president...there's very little to back up the Republican claim - and an awful lot to suggest that it's wrong."

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