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EDITOR'S CHOICE
11 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"A new EV index for 2024 - released for World EV Day on Monday -ranks Delaware at the top. The state leapt to first from 15th place in 2023 EV Index...No state gets a perfect score in the index...But it's clear EVs and their infrastructure are gaining a foothold in the Northeast and Southwest....two metrics that likely matter most to current EV owners... is how many chargers are along a state's roads and how powerful they are." [Nebaska ranks new bottom]11 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"Chinese ride-hailing company Didi wants to bring a total of 100,000 electric cars to Mexico by 2030"The BYD D1...has been available since 2020; the compact model with sliding rear doors has been optimised for ride-hailing services...A self-driving electric car is being developed together with GAC Aion..
"...citing Didi's experience in China: 57 per cent of the kilometres driven by Didi drivers there are in electric cars..."
11 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"Cars, not kids on electric bikes, are the real problem"We've normalized the greater danger of cars while fearing the lesser danger of e-bikes...Now consider which is the real threat: a 28 mph, 50-pound e-bike or a 4,000-pound-plus vehicle capable of over 100 mph... threat isn't from "untrained" bike riders, as many claim. It's from distracted drivers...86 crashes involving e-bikes...88 percent involved a car or truck.
11 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"In Europe, heavy duty vehicles are responsible for 28% of transport emissions though they only make up 2% of vehicles on the road...what has happened in the last few years is mind-boggling...The price for lithium-ion batteries has plummeted in the last decade...researchers are working on megawatt charging systems that could reduce battery-powered trucks' charging time from several hours to as little as 15 minutes."11 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology wondered if they could build a battery that doubles as the load-bearing material holding the car together...The new battery design has an energy density of 30 Wh/kg, which is... not great by automotive standards."The battery design uses carbon fiber in both the anode and cathode, where it also serves as a reinforcement and a current collector. That negates the need for current collectors...
10 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"The cost of electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries plunged by an impressive 90% between 2008 and 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Energy...The price of electric cars is plummeting so fast that they're now almost as cheap as gas-powered cars..."The public health impacts and economic boosts mean that even those who don't drive EVs can benefit from their more widespread use..."
10 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"One of the biggest takeaways is how drivers' worries decrease with EV adoption. Before making the switch, many people fret about battery range, charging infrastructure, and overall costs. But the data shows that once they start driving electric, these concerns drop significantly... 89% say they're "likely" or "very likely" to make their next car electric..."What seem like scary issues for some people considering an EV become non-issues after going electric."
10 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"Americans love using gasoline, and we've historically been in a pattern where we ended up using more of it every year...I would argue that this pattern is broken."But gasoline consumption peaked in 2018 at 392 million gallons per day in 2018 according to the U.S. EIA...Given the economic and demographic headwinds, however, they would have to slow to a stop or even reverse in order to get back to 2018 demand levels sometime this decade."
10 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
"Toyota will provide its third-generation hydrogen fuel cell for the production car—that's the same stack Toyota showed off in its hydrogen-powered Hilux concept...the vehicle would be an existing model with a hydrogen fuel cell drivetrain option added on...BMW's plant in Munich is reportedly built to accommodate hydrogen on the production line"...it's hard to ignore hydrogen's rocky existence in the U.S."
10 Sep 2024 | Synopsis
" The [30] EV shuttles will replace propane-powered buses that have carried an estimated 95 million visitors up and down Zion Canyon since 2000...around three people per car, that means there were 30,000 less cars in the park. "The project cost around $37 million, with $33 million coming from the U.S. Department of Transportation...rest came from local county governments, the Zion National Park Forever Project and other grants and donations."
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