Month: October 2021

Are rental car customers ready for EVs? We’re going to find out. Rental giant Hertz theoretically began introducing EVs to its fleet in 2011, and competitors soon followed. However, they were offered only in select markets, sometimes at super-premium prices. Meanwhile, Teslas became popular on the peer-to-peer rental network Turo. Now Florida-based Hertz, which rents
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Tesla (TSLA) has officially reached a public market valuation of $1 trillion after adding over $100 billion to its market capitalization today alone. As we reported earlier today, Tesla is seeing a series of good catalysts: It sent its stock skyrocketing to new levels. At the time of writing, Tesla’s stock was trading at a
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TE Connectivity has announced its GreenSilver contact surface technology for connectors, which features a green coating that delivers needed performance while improving sustainability.  The GreenSilver contact surface technology on TE’s new connectors uses less precious metal, less energy and less water, and also helps to reduce pollution by improving performance in EVs. It’s designed to
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Exhaust-system design usually focuses on sound and the integration of emissions equipment, but Ford is trying a different angle. The automaker recently filed a patent application for a retractable exhaust system. First spotted by CarBuzz, the retractable exhaust system is designed to improve off-road capability. Tailpipes hang down fairly low, after all, meaning they’re more
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Amprius Technologies has been awarded a contract with the US Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office. The 18-month rapid prototyping contract includes the design, development, and validation of high-energy-density silicon anode lithium-ion batteries to be used in unmanned aircraft system applications. Amprius offers a silicon anode battery with high energy density in commercially available
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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. GM President Mark Reuss said that Chevrolet will launch an electrified version of the Equinox. “The Chevrolet crossover you see up here is an Equinox
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2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies We update this list regularly because the market is changing so quickly. The new models we’ve driven have caused us to rethink the Top 10. We’ll try to keep this up-to-date as the EV market continues to evolve.  Picking the Top 10 electric car
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BMW announced today the official launch of production of the all-new, all-electric BMW i4 at its Plant Munich in Germany. The company produces multiple models at the site, including also combustion-powered and plug-in hybrid BMW 3 Series Sedan and Touring, the BMW M3 and the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe. The production of all drive
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