Electric vehicle innovation trends
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Computer World
Uber's CEO this week said if Tesla comes through on its promise to build self-driving cars by 2020, his company will buy them all to use for its service.
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Geoff’s Blog
The electric car is going to take over the world. Soon. Let me explain.
75% of US consumers and over 85% of US millennials own smartphones. Perhaps more amazing is that 1/4 of people in the...
75% of US consumers and over 85% of US millennials own smartphones. Perhaps more amazing is that 1/4 of people in the...
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Clean Technica
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Autoblog
Ford invests $4.5 billion to build more electric cars. It's the largest single investment over a five-year period in Ford history in electric vehicles.
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The Globe and Mail
It calls for a complete ban on all vehicles that aren't emissions-free, which means efficient hybrids and plug-in hybrids will also be banned
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Electrek
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Autocar
The EV battery charging capabilities will be dwarfed when supercapacitors are adopted, says a university-affiliated research group
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Computer World
Electric vehicles will be less expensive to own than gas-powered cars in the next 10 years, and EV sales will represent 35% of new light-duty vehicle sales by 2040, according to a new report by Bloomberg Finance.
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Bloomberg Business
There are more than one billion cars on the road worldwide today, and only one tenth of one percent of them have a plug. OPEC contends that even in the year ...
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Financial Express
The idea is that by 2030, not a single petrol or diesel car should be sold in the country,” power minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday, speaking at the CII Annual Session 2017 in the capital.
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CleanTechnica
Analysts for UBS have torn apart a perfectly good Chevy Bolt to see how it is put together. What they found led them to make this rather startling announcement: the “total cost of consumer ownership [of electric cars] can reach parity with combustion engines from 2018.
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Quartz
After years of waffling, utilties are pushing Congress to get more EVs on the road.
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Electrek
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Inside EVs
Australia lags in terms of electric car sales, but there are hopes that situation will change sooner or later. Sooner if government will introduce subsidies.
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Transport Evolved
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Wall Street Journal
Small, slow and super cheap: China's low-speed electric vehicles, or LSEVs, are bringing the thrill of driving to the masses—and hampering the government's e...
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Stratfor
An infographic from Visual Capitalist and Raconteur helps visualize the projected growth of the electric vehicle market in the decades ahead.
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Driving
Chinese battery supplier Envision says it will soon be able to price its packs below a long-awaited threshold
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Quartz
Some 200 automakers, including international names like Volkswagen, Nissan, and Tesla, are part of the program.
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Electrek
Lightyear plans to partner with Dutch-based car leasing service LeasePlan to release the first consumer solar-based vehicle by 2020. Lightyear has been
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Forbes
It pains me--but does not surprise me--that the automakers are costing themselves a chance at sales by putting such amazing powertrain technology into unappealing econoboxes. There’s no need for a three-box BEV since the first box--the engine compartment--is totally superfluous.
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Quartz
When it comes to buying and selling electric cars, there’s China and then there’s everyone else. Quartz News heads to Shenzhen, home to the world’s second-la...
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The Atlantic
To wean drivers off gas vehicles, automakers need to help them develop a whole new understanding of what it means to own a motorcar.
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The Economist
Putting motors in wheels lightens vehicles and shrinks batteries
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Ark Invest
According to our research, EV growth is stealing the march from the traditional auto industry, and Tesla is leading the charge, so to speak.
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Recharge
French bank's calculations of the energy return on capital invested shows that oil is now in 'relentless and irreversible decline' for light-duty vehicles
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The Week
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BloombergNEF
EVs more resilient as overall car market expected to shrink by 23% in response to health and economic crisis London and New York, May 19, 2020 –
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Future Timeline
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Business Insider
Beyond designing and building electric vehicles that can travel more than 200 miles on a charge, car companies are also dealing with charging times.
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OnVoltage
There are economic, environmental, societal, and personal benefits to owning an electric car. Now that they are becoming more popular there are many options to choose from.
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Green Tech Media
An alliance of automakers, utilities and environmentalists called the 50x50 Commission released a set of policy recommendations on Tuesday that they hope will act as an “effective roadmap” to guide U.S. transportation infrastructure
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The Wall Street Journal
China is slashing subsidies for electric vehicles, which will test the resilience of a fast-growing EV market that government support helped create.
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Sky News
The company revises up its forecasts for the manufacture of electric vehicles but warns it will come at a price for the workforce.
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Canadian Underwriter
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Forbes
Whatever its immediate results may be, UAW’s current strike has deep ramifications for the future of automobiles.
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CTV News
As the global auto industry invests billions in research for electric vehicles, Canada's auto sector is experiencing declining sales and has witnessed several rounds of major job cuts.
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Insurance Journal
A dozen Ford Motor Co. workers are experimenting with wearable social-distancing devices that could be deployed more widely once the carmaker reopens