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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

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The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time. It’s been on sale in Europe for a year, as has the Cargo commercial-van variant. market only in a long-wheelbase version, VW of America having decided the standard European model was just too small. So the U.S.

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Honda hopes to go electric in North America by 2040, will develop solid-state batteries

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There are grounds for skepticism: unlike the heroes of the hour, VW and GM, which are already producing and selling EVs in the US, Honda (like Toyota) currently offers no BEV models for sale in North America (the Clarity Electric compliance car was discontinued after 2019, and the Honda e electric hatchback isn’t sold in the US).

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Jeep begins production of Avenger EV in Europe

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In September, Jeep unveiled three new battery-electric SUVs —two mid-size SUVs, the Recon and the Wagoneer S, are to be built in North America and go on sale in 2024. Forbes reports that Spain and Italy will get the fossil-burning version, while the EV version will be sold elsewhere in Europe.

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2024 Volkswagen ID.7 revealed at CES (sort of)

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The Passat-sized battery-electric sedan will be sold in North America, Europe, and China. 4s for North America are now produced in VW’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, using lines that previously built its Passat mid-size sedan—discontinued after the 2022 model year. Volkswagen debuted the ID.7,

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Operational clean hydrogen production projects set to double globally within the next five years

Envirotec Magazine

According to the research, Europe is leading the charge in the development of clean hydrogen, with Germany home to 25 of the total already operational projects (equal to 27%); the U.S. Since 2021, when the map was first published, the number of tracked production projects at any stage of development has increased by almost 50%.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

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New entries are announced virtually every month, and picking the 2025 models that will be most important throughout 2024 is risky for early January. Still, the 2025 Kia EV9 and 2025 Volvo EX30 stand out as particularly important EVs for 2024. Its sibling Hyundai will follow with its own version, the Ioniq 7, sometime during 2024.

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Technology Trending: What to look out for in 2024

Smart Energy International

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. But for this one I have decided to take a forward look to 2024 – and would invite your feedback on its focus and style for the year ahead.