21 May 2024 12:50:31 UTC

 EDITOR'S CHOICE

We Built 7 EV Chargers In 2 years. That's Actually Not The Problem

10 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

Washington Post columnist Matt Bai explains "I happen to believe the charger program makes a ton of sense. It has always been government's job to underwrite huge shifts in the infrastructure we use...."

"So maybe Democrats could simply level with them and say: 'Look, we need to start spending trillions of dollars on public investments, and we probably aren't going to see benefits of it anytime soon, but your children absolutely will."

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Large Cities And Cancer Share An Unexpected Similarity

10 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"Researchers argue that the same key factors that govern the growth of cancer also seem to govern the spread of urban spaces...Understanding that similarity could help us build better cities for the future...The use of trains, however, permitted a shift to suburban living, allowing residents to live further and further out from the center.

"..international team of researchers argue... are comparative to how blood vessels in cancerous tumors sprout and split, forging new 'roads' into emerging tissue."

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Electric Cars Set To Overtake Petrol Cars In Norway

08 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"BEVs accounted for 24.3% of the 2.9 million passenger cars in Norway, compared with 26.9% for petrol vehicles... the situation is different when it comes to diesel cars, of which there are still around 370,000 in Norway.

"Although sales of new electric cars fell by around a quarter in 2023, the share of BEVs reached 92.1% in January 2024...Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association predicts that fully electric cars will account for 95% of sales...

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AAI Says Americans Bought 1.4 Million EVs In 2023

08 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

Alliance for Automotive Innovation "counts 4.3 million EVs on US roads, by registration, or 1.5% of all light-duty vehicles in operation.

"That represents a sales increase of 51% while the number of publicly available EV chargers rose just 27% last year...Until now, most sources quoted 2023 US EV sales of 1.1-1.2 million..according to AAI, last year's EV market share reached 9.5%, up 2.5 points over 2022..."

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Disabled Drivers Can't Use Many Electric Car Chargers. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

08 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"Department of Energy reported, there were more than 140,000 public EV charging ports in the U.S., up from around 80,000 just three years earlier.

DoT "data estimates that half of disabled adults under 65, some 10 million people, drive themselves around...for drivers with disabilities, inaccessible chargers make it a lot less appealing to switch...The devices themselves, not just their locations, can be made more accessible."

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Used Electric Cars Prices 'More Volatile' Than Other Cars, Australian Data shows

08 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

In 2023, electric cars obtained a 7.2 per cent share of the Australian new-car market, a 161 per cent increase over 2022.

"While electric cars less than two years of age retained a respectable 82.8 per cent of their original value when resold in December 2023, electric cars between two and four years old held on to just 57.6 per cent of their value, while electric cars five years of age or older were worth less than 25 per cent of their original purchase price when resold."

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What Happens If You Never Charge Your Plug-In-Hybrid Car?

08 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"Unlike battery-electric cars, PHEVs don't have to be plugged in to run. If the PHEV battery is "depleted," or has discharged its all-electric range, a portion of its capacity stays in reserve to act as a regular hybrid battery.

"...plug-in hybrid that's not plugged in is a regular hybrid. It likely gets better fuel economy than a nonhybrid, but it almost always gets worse fuel economy than a comparable standard hybrid."

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NASA Unveils Lunar Terrain Rovers That Will Take Moon Astronauts To Mysterious Destinations 'Unreachable' By Foot

06 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"NASA has picked three companies to develop a new lunar racer car that Artemis astronauts will use to traverse the Moon in the 2030s.

"Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab have been tasked with developing an autonomous vehicle as part of a $4.6billion contract over the next 13 years...the Moon car must be able to accommodate two suited astronauts, and withstand extreme conditions."

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UC Berkeley Study Confirms That Yes, EVs Do What They Promise To Do

06 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"A new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now...

"Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, found that between 2018 and 2022, CO2 emission from all sources (industries, homes, traffic) across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped around 1.8% per year - a difference the researchers attribute to widespread EV adoption in the area"

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Closing the Loop: Building a Battery Recycling Ecosystem

06 Apr 2024 | Synopsis

"There are three main factors in determining the economics of battery recycling: price of metal, cost of acquiring feedstock, and the amount of plant capacity being utilized. The technology itself is relatively insignificant; the extractive step of the process represents ~5% of the total cost. The biggest cost driver is scrap acquisition, which largely boils down to transportation costs."

"...if metal prices are high, ~80% recovery could still be profitable, but if prices are low, even 99% recovery might not make economic sense."

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