09 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"More than 160 e-bike purchase incentive programs currently exist in the United States and Canada."Amid e-bikes' rapid rise in popularity and adoption, cities and other groups like utility districts have stood up incentive programs to aid in their purchase...If cities are going to spend money incentivizing e-bikes, they should have a clear understanding of what they're trying to get out of it"
09 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"Fisker, the EV startup founded by renowned car designer, Henrik Fisker, is struggling....he is trying again. Fisker is trying to strengthen its financials and reputation by selling through dealers, licensing tech and securing a potential investment from a large automaker. But executive turnover, delivery bottlenecks, cash burn and other challenges have hampered the growth it hoped for. [CNBC VIDEO REPORT]09 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"...according to one study, the average person now ingests as much as a credit card's worth of plastic (5 grams) every week."For more than 40 years, they knew that plastic recycling is not technically or economically feasible at scale...Twenty petrochemical companies generate more than half of all the world's single-use plastics. They include major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, the world's leading producer of single-use plastic
08 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
The R2 is built to be Rivian's 'Model 3 moment,' or its attempt to build a car that's more accessible to the general public..."As an electric car, the R2 is highly competitive. There are three drivetrain configurations: a single-motor rear-wheel drive model, a dual-motor all-wheel-drive configuration, and a tri-motor all-wheel drive configuration. All of the models can deliver over 300 miles of range..."
08 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"The Charger Daytona debuts the STLA Large platform, one of four EV platforms...houses a dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain tuned for different outputs..."Charger Daytona will offer an estimated 317 miles of range in R/T form and 260 miles in more powerful Scat Pack spec, it needs a massive 100.5-kilowatt-hour battery pack to achieve that...Models available at launch use a 400-volt electrical architecture..."
08 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"It's a testament to Henrik Fisker's design that the sedan's fundamental shape, going back to the original Fisker Karma, remains abundantly evident...the Geyesera is a rear-driver, an e-motor on the back axle making 590 horsepower and 690 pound-feet, its 120-kWh batter enabling a range greater than 250 miles...a potential price between $175,000 and $225,000 apiece for a run of about 2,000 units built over four to five years."08 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"Although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, on Earth there are no proven accumulations of large quantities of molecular hydrogen; it is very hard to trap...the size, depth, and gas composition of any large, hydrogen-containing fields are unknown. Without this basic information, the costs of extracting, purifying, and transporting any hydrogen products to customers cannot be estimated."08 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"The latest outrage from the fossil fuel apologists was on full display a few days ago in this screaming headline from the New York Post, one of the favorite newspapers of Magalomaniacs - 'Electric vehicles release more toxic emissions, are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars: study...""As advocates for the electrification of transportation, we need to own both the advantages and disadvantages of EVs."
06 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
"Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger."The bad news is that energy-related emissions rose in 2023. But the good news is that continued expansion of clean energy technologies meant that global energy-related emissions rose less strongly than in 2022
"The growing number of EVs on the roads, accounting for 1 in 5 new car sales globally in 2023, also played a significant role in keeping oil demand...from rising above pre-pandemic levels."
06 Mar 2024 | Synopsis
Stellantis "...thinks that with its new model, the electric version of its most popular vehicle worldwide, it can change American's minds on small cars...Fiat says it knows the vehicle is desirable on more than just the West Coast..The new Fiat 500e will be available in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico"It will be the lightest passenger EV in the market and carry an all-electric range of 149 mile...designed from the start as an electric urban city car..."
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