Smartphone maker Huawei has partnered with the China-owned Chery Automobile on the electric vehicle (EV) brand Luxeed, set to unveil its first vehicle in the coming months. The brand will debut a Tesla Model S rival near the end of November, according to a company executive. The Luxeed S7 will be unveiled in the Chinese […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has met with several world leaders in recent weeks, with the latest being a U.S. meeting with the President of Hungary, according to a new report. Musk met with Hungary President Katalin Novák at Gigafactory Texas on Monday, as reported by Daily News Hungary (via Sawyer Merritt). Novák originally posted an
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As the auto industry transitions to electric vehicles (EVs), many have aired concerns that there will not be enough charging stations. According to one new report, many landlords and real estate owners in Los Angeles, California are rushing to construct new EV charging hardware at apartments, stores, office buildings and more. Charging stations are not
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On Monday, Ford announced that it paused construction of its electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. “We’re pausing work, and we’re going to limit spending on construction at Marshall until we’re confident about our ability to competitively run the plant,” Ford spokesman T.R. Reid told The Detroit News. “We haven’t made a final decision
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Austria’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS), made of Tesla Megapacks, recently went live. The official X account for the Tesla Megapack announced that the 10 MW/20 MWh BESS project in Ardnolstein is live and supporting the transmission network. “The focus is initially on supporting the Austrian transmission network. But the system also opens up
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Ford has confirmed that it’s halting construction of a $3.5 million battery plant in Michigan that the automaker had focused on just months earlier as a key for EV affordability. The plant, near Marshall, Michigan, was due to create about 2,500 jobs and make lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries, which tend to be much cheaper to produce…
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US adhesive manufacturing company Avery Dennison has launched a newly developed portfolio of electrically insulative, single-sided filmic tapes for EV battery packs. The Volt Tough portfolio includes tapes that incorporate features for OEMs and converters, including options for curved geometries, high abrasion-resistant options, color options for vision inspection systems, flame-retardant options for UL-94 and other
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If there’s a theme that carries across plug-in hybrids of all kinds this year, it’s that batteries are getting bigger and electric-only driving range is getting longer. With Porsche’s latest versions of the Cayenne E-Hybrid plug-in hybrids, you can bet on both of those improvements, as well as the pursuit of better performance… Source: Green
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The carbon fiber boat has a 31 mph top speed and 66 miles of range on a single charge. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More
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In UK politics, climate change policies cut across party lines. Boris Johnson’s Tory government set an official goal of reaching “net zero” emissions by 2030. This translated to a wide range of pro-EV policies, and the results can be plainly seen in London, which has become one of the world’s most charged cities. Now Rishi
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