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Month: January 2021
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will buy charging-infrastructure Ubitricity, a German company that specializes in streetside charging for electric cars. Ubitricity is probably best known for building charging stations into lampposts, including a project in the United Kingdom that added 24 charging stations along section of street in London. The company claims to operate the
As an Engineering Director at Tesla, Joe Mardall led the development of a heat pump system that has been lauded as one of the most innovative new features of Model Y. Now Mardall has resigned his position at the California carmaker to become Head of Engineering at Zipline, a drone maker and aerial delivery service
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The Bloodhound Land Speed Record (LSR) project is once again up for sale. A team blog post said Bloodhound is still looking to make a World Land Speed Record attempt in 2022, providing a new owner (and additional funding) can be found. The coronavirus pandemic hindered fundraising efforts and delayed the project by a full
Navigate on Autopilot (Beta) is designed to get you to your destination more efficiently by actively guiding your car from on-ramp to off-ramp including lane changes and highway exits. On Model S and X, Navigate on Autopilot (Beta) can be engaged on most highways by pulling the cruise stalk towards you twice in quick succession.
Harley-Davidson may be the most traditional of motorcycle makers. But it’s now taken a huge leap into a greener future with its LiveWire electric motorcycle concept. Recently, our writer Ben Rich has ridden it–and reported on what it’s like. This is Green Car Reports’ video news for the week of July 28, 2014. Subscribe for
Tesla’s new competition will come from a big brand name that has never made electric cars before and InsideEVs contributor Tom Moloughney who has seen the prototype EV in person with me will share his opinion on this surprising turn of events. Why am I wearing a hat? My hair is still not ready for
[embedded content] Orem, Utah – VIA Motors, Inc. will be featured as part of the educational public television series, In Depth, hosted by actor Laurence Fishbourne. The documentary is set to air January 25, 2021 on participating public television channels and will be rebroadcast throughout the year. In the documentary, Bob Purcell (CEO, VIA Motors) and
By Joey Klender Posted on January 25, 2021 A Tesla Model Y engineer, who suggested the heat pump’s inclusion, has left the company after ten years, his LinkedIn account said. Joseph Mardall served as the Engineering Director for Tesla from April 2018 to January 2021 but has held several other roles with the electric automaker
San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pioneer Nuvve and smart charging specialist IoTecha are joining forces to deploy and commercialize a bidirectional EV charging solution that uses the CCS standard and supports the ISO/IEC15118 protocol. The plan is to enable automotive OEMs to enable bidirectional energy flow on their vehicles using IoTecha and Nuvve technology. Future versions
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Renewable energy overtook fossil fuels as the EU’s main source of electricity for the first time in 2020. These are the top 10 most sustainable companies in the world, according to the 2021 Global 100 index. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers
With traditional car sales down everywhere by double-digit percentages, electric cars have taken charge, offering a taste of things to come. This is also true for Italy, where December monthly EV sales skyrocketed to over eight times last year’s levels! Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on opportunity:energy. Following months of exciting growth, the last report
The BMW i4 is expected to be a close match to the Tesla Model 3 in size and price, and now the German automaker seems to be suggesting it plans to outdo Tesla in handling. In a press release, BMW said handling performance is a priority for the i4, which is scheduled to start production
Electric school buses seem like a no-brainer at this point—although they cost two to three times more up front than diesel buses, at about $230,000 each, they save money in the long run, as fuel and maintenance costs are about 80 percent lower. They’re also prime candidates for future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications, which could generate
Tesla is suing a recently hired software engineer who the company claims has stolen critical automated software from its WARP Drive ERP system. Tesla WARP Drive While most automakers use commonly known enterprise software from third parties like SAP, Tesla instead decided to build its own from scratch. Tesla’s longtime chief information officer Jay Vijayan,
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DALLAS, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Alternet Systems, Inc. (USOTC: ALYI) today published a corporate update and 2021 outlook from company CEO Randell Torno. The update and outlook is included in entirety below. ALYI Corporate Update and 2021 Outlook The ALYI business model is founded on the idea of establishing a perpetual system of electric vehicle innovation. Unlike
By Joey Klender Posted on January 24, 2021 New photos from the Tesla Fremont Factory obtained by Teslarati show the new Refreshed Tesla Model S and its new features, confirming the long-time speculation of whether the company’s flagship sedan would be updated nine years after its initial release. After the Plaid Model S was announced
Governments are fond of setting numerical milestones for EV adoption, and sometimes those objectives are actually met. A few years ago, as part of the LA Green New Deal, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) set a goal of deploying 10,000 commercial EV chargers in the city by 2022. According to the
Portugual-born 29-year-old Antonio Felix da Costa is currently the reigning champion of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Antonio has been with the open-wheeled electric racing league since its inaugural season in 2014. While we wait in anticipation of the 2020-21 season beginning next month, and on the heels of Antonio and electric scooter-manufacturer
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Back to the Future is, beyond the movie itself, probably the best phrase to describe the potential revival of DeLorean DMC-12 as an all-electric replica. The DeLorean has literally become the poster car for something the federal government enabled more than five years ago—already a long time coming—allowing a clear pathway with regulators to get
By applying statistical geometry to analyze urban road networks, KAUST researchers have advanced their understanding of how dynamic wireless charging systems might influence driver behavior and city planning in a future dominated by EVs. The study, published in the IEEE Open Journal on Vehicular Technology, used tools from stochastic geometry to establish a framework that
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Mercedes-Benz’s GLA-Class compact crossover SUV this week spawned a battery-electric version in the form of the EQA. Just the one grade has been announced but more are planned, including one with over 268 horsepower. 2021 Porsche Taycan rear-wheel drive Porsche also introduced a new base version of its Taycan electric sedan. Aside from a lower
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Sandy Munro breaks down Tesla alternatives in 2021 including Rivian, Lucid, Ford Mustang Mach-E, VW ID.4, and others! There are a couple of shockers there as well. What we both agree on is that the future of electric cars is bright and it starts in 2021. WATCH NEXT: https://youtu.be/tT9C5mN-EHM Sandy’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj–iMtToRO_cGG_fpmP5XQ OUR SPONSORS: ❤️
[embedded content] Project is the result of an international public-private partnership Two years after becoming the first battery of its kind to be connected to the California grid to help support reliability and maximize the use of clean energy, the vanadium redox flow (VRF) battery based at a San Diego Gas & Electric substation is again breaking