Electric vehicle innovation trends

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Uber will buy all the self-driving cars that Tesla can build in 2020
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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The electric car
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...
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Ford invests $4.5 billion to build more electric cars
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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Netherlands looks to ban all gas, diesel car sales by 2025
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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EVs could be fully charged 'in seconds' following supercapacitor revolution
Autocar
The EV battery charging capabilities will be dwarfed when supercapacitors are adopted, says a university-affiliated research group
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EVs will be cheaper than gasoline-powered cars by mid-2020s
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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Electric cars could wreak havoc on oil markets within a decade
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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India eyes all-electric car fleet by 2030
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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UBS: Chevy bolt powertrain $4,600 cheaper than thought, Tesla model 3 likely to be profitable
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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US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save them
Quartz
After years of waffling, utilties are pushing Congress to get more EVs on the road.
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Report says electric cars will match ice range, refilling times by 2024
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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As EVs get older, aftermarket batteries will change the EV marketplace
Transport Evolved
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Big in China: Tiny electric cars
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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Visualizing the rise of the electric vehicle
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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Electric cars will soon be cheaper to make than gas cars: Battery-maker
Driving
Chinese battery supplier Envision says it will soon be able to price its packs below a long-awaited threshold
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China’s electric cars are government spies
Quartz
Some 200 automakers, including international names like Volkswagen, Nissan, and Tesla, are part of the program.
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Lightyear partners with leaseplan NL to deliver first AWD solar-powered family car
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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An inconvenient truth for the global auto industry: Electric cars are not selling in 2019
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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Your next car may be Chinese and electric
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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Electric cars still face a major roadblock
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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A new type of engine for electric cars
The Economist
Putting motors in wheels lightens vehicles and shrinks batteries
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Electric vehicles are out performing the traditional S-curve dynamics
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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Six to seven times cheaper to power cars by renewables than oil: BNP paribas
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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Why Teslas aren't the future
The Week
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.
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Electric vehicle sales to fall 18% in 2020 but long-term prospects remain undimmed
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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Futuristic tires could boost electric vehicles
Future Timeline
FutureTimeline.net - the latest news and breakthroughs in the world of science and technology
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Automakers are ignoring a potential nightmare scenario for electric cars
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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All the benefits of owning an electric car
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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Coalition of automakers and utilities unveils transportation policy ‘roadmap’
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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China to reduce the juice for electric-car sales
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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Volkswagen to cut jobs as shift to electric cars accelerates
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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Auto workers striking over electric cars and the future of good labor relations
Forbes
Whatever its immediate results may be, UAW’s current strike has deep ramifications for the future of automobiles.
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The unclear path forward for Canada's auto sector as the electric age approaches
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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Get too close, get buzzed. Ford tests wearables to keep workers at safe distances
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