Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

For ICE vehicles, the odometer reading is a major factor, but for EVs, the health of the battery may be more important, as the battery is the most expensive part of the vehicle, and it naturally degrades over time. Seattle-based startup Recurrent aims to change that, by providing independent reports on the condition of used EV batteries.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Los Angeles-based automotive manufacturer Harbinger has unveiled a new platform for Class 4 to Class 7 EVs. Harris says current EV solutions in the medium-duty space offer only incremental improvements, largely by retrofitting ICE products. We are solving this problem head-on.”.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tesla’s recent move to open its Supercharger stations to other brands’ EVs was momentous, but expected—it was an inevitable step forward that the company announced some months ago. It plans to offer a new version of its Wall Connector home charger that’s equipped with a J1772 plug, making it compatible with all North American EVs.

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Transportation 120

Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2020

First Tesla EVs finished in Shanghai, Austria's Green Party enters government, Germany cuts rail fares for climate, and all the other green business news from around the world this week.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2020

That's the clear, unequivocal finding of the first study that conducted a global examination of the current and future greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles ( EV s) and gas-powered cars. This study directly refutes myths perpetuated by climate science deniers and EV antagonists, who claim that EV s are really not all that green.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Colorado is moving ahead with a plan to get nearly 1 million electric vehicles ( EV ) on its roads by 2030 and, for the first time, has adopted a long-term goal of transitioning to 100 percent electric and zero-emission vehicles. Tags: clean transportation Colorado electric vehicles Electrification Coalition

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Charged

OCTOBER 22, 2021

GM has promised to launch 30 new EV models by 2025, and the automaker teased a couple of these at the recent From Automaker to Platform Innovator event for investors. The Chevrolet crossover you see up here is an Equinox EV or the equivalent and is part of our 30 EVs by 2025. Source: InsideEVs.

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Charged

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Ford F-150 Lightning is one of the most hotly-anticipated EVs yet—and not only by EV journalists, but by truck buyers. A fully loaded Platinum F-150 Lightning packs a price tag a little under $80,000. This means the F-150 Lightning can be used to charge another EV. inch touchscreen, and 9.6 kW ProPower Onboard system.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to become the most in-demand option for drivers across Europe within the next three years, with a rapid shift to electric mobility on roads now inevitable over the coming decade and beyond, a major new study of seven national auto markets has concluded.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Legislators in 26 states have enacted or proposed special registration fees for electric vehicles ( EV s) that the consumer advocacy group found to be more expensive than the gas taxes paid by the driver of an average new gasoline vehicle.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

Listen now: Podcast with Kristian Ruby The current state-of-play picture was upbeat: Eurelectric says electric vehicle sales in Europe are “booming” and it expects EV to overtake traditional vehicles by 2030. Serge Colle, Global Energy & Resources Leader at EY, said: “The reality is that cars just need to be cheaper.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2019, the company added 400 electric vehicles to its fleet including delivery trucks, forklifts and airport ground service equipment and by the end of that year was operating close to 3,000 EVs. If you're interested in electric sustainable transportation, subscribe to our newsletter Transport Weekly.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) could be on track to reach cost-parity with fossil fuel cars within three years thanks to rapid strides in battery development worldwide, which have seen the average cost of lithium ion battery packs plummet almost 90 per cent over the past decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Survey results commissioned and publicized by the American Energy Alliance ( AEA ) seem on their surface to indicate that a majority of respondents are not thrilled about subsidizing EV s purchased by other consumers, particularly wealthy Americans.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. EV battery visibility.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2020

US states have been on an EV-taxing spree over the last couple of years. Many states have established or increased annual taxes on EV ownership—including supposedly EV-friendly states like Oregon and Washington. Prior to 2015, Georgia was one of the fastest-growing EV markets in the country. However, as Ms.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

US motor giant Ford almost doubles its EV investment plans, while Porsche says 80 per cent of its vehicles sold will be electric in 2030, as European EV market accelerates. The money will fund the development of EVs in Ford's key product lines, the firm said, including pickup trucks, commercial vans and SUVs.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When Robert Bollinger founded Bollinger Motors in 2015, he did not follow the typical EV startup formula. With a no-nonsense design, powerful specs and a $125,000 price tag, Bollinger’s B1 Sport Utility Truck and B2 Pickup Truck are clearly not aimed at the mass market, but at truck connoisseurs.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Analyst cautions that demand for fossil fuel from automotive market will only drop by 24 per cent by 2050, despite bullish predictions for EV market. By mid-century, 86 per cent of automobile sales in Europe, 81 per cent of sales in China and 78 per cent of sales in North America will be EVs, it said.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. The business plan seemed to be “Demand for EV batteries will soon be huge, so we will build a huge factory to make them. Give us money, lots of it.”

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Batteries Government Investment Demand 56

Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In a year packed with new EV launches, few vehicles have been as eagerly anticipated as the Lucid Air. What’s more, we did all this without ever sacrificing the beauty of the Lucid Air, which will stand as the first example of a car being created from a ‘clean sheet’ to leverage the total design freedom that an EV architecture provides.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The plates will feature a green tag or 'flash' on the left hand side of the plate to make it easy to identify zero emission models. Only fully zero emission electric and fuel cell cars will be eligible for the green plates, with hybrids and plug in hybrids deemed ineligible. per cent of all sales this year, up from 1.5

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 23, 2023

As most of the vehicle brands these days are making efforts to launch their electric cars, Ford has also come up with Explorer EV to meet consumer requirements. Therefore, people are likely to find this luxury car more luxurious than its other competitor Mustang Mach-E with a price tag of €62,900 in Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

A government grant scheme offering businesses thousands of pounds off the price tag of electric vans and trucks has been extended by a further two years, in a move Ministers expect to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vehicles.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 5, 2022

With billions of dollars on the way from the federal government to deploy the infrastructure needed to fast track transportation electrification, energy businesses need proven accurate, credible data to drive their EV charging investments. Where are EV drivers currently charging – at home, a business or a public charging station?

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

Plug & Charge, based on the ISO 15118 standard, enables direct communication between an EV and a charger, eliminating the need for a card or RFID tag. Kennedy says Tritium’s Plug & Charge solution is more secure than existing card-swipe or RFID tag payment methods. “A

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Unveiling its full-year 2022 financial results, the German car giant said its operating profits rose to €2.6bn despite "challenging" economic conditions, with overall sales across its fossil fuel and EV portfolio rising from €68bn to €74bn.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Treasury is working on detailed proposals for a new national road-charging plan, amidst growing fears the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) could result in a £40bn black hole in the national accounts as revenues from fuel duty collapse.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Poll of consumer energy users commissioned by the regulator points to growing interest in EVs, but less awareness of climate impacts of home heating. The poll found 24 per cent of respondents said they planned to purchase an EV of plug-in hybrid car within the next five years, a proportion which would equate to 6.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned.

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Electric vehicle Automotive Transportation Government 92

Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Japanese car giant unveils 10-year electrification strategy, as rival carmaker Nissan teams up with NASA to develop EVs using ‘game changing’ fast-charging solid-state batteries by 2028. Meanwhile, it intends to launch an EV platform that would combine hardware and software from 2026.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. When EVs come into existence that are capable of traveling 500 to 600 miles, energy stations planned around vehicles with a 100- to 200-mile range may be as endangered in the future as were the Route 66 gas stations in the past.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Billionaire offers glimpse of EV firm's efforts to develop cheaper, more efficient battery cells at Tesla's AGM. Current costs of batteries were not coming down quickly enough to address the climate crisis and spur fast enough transition to EVs, he warned. To accelerate the transition to EVs they must be affordable," Musk said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The great EV armament has begun. Then, just over a week ago Ford announced it would now be doubling its EV production target to 600,000 per year globally by 2023, with its CEO Jim Farely training his sights on surpassing Tesla as the world's largest zero emission vehicle manufacturer.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The great EV armament has begun. Then, just over a week ago Ford announced it would now be doubling its EV production target to 600,000 per year globally by 2023, with its CEO Jim Farely training his sights on surpassing Tesla as the world's largest zero emission vehicle manufacturer.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

That is certainly true of the corporate electric vehicle (EV) transition. Since then, the initiative's progress has rapidly accelerated, mirroring the growth of the wider global market for EVs thanks to increasing investment, more supportive policies, and greater corporate and consumer appetite for electric mobility.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2022

EVs function just similar to combustion-engine cars, but there are some key differences. Here is what to consider when making your EV purchase. You may want an EV to help the planet or save money on gas. Which EVs are best for the environment? When should you consider buying an EV? Both are great reasons.

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