Month: May 2022

Hyundai Motor Group has been considering where to establish its planned EV manufacturing hub for the United States for roughly a year now and is reportedly zeroing in on the State of Georgia as a final destination. It’s even said to have conducted some preliminary meetings with local leaders about the possibility of breaking ground
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Sponsored by Littelfuse Supercharged solutions that provide for fast charging reliability, efficiency, and safety The adoption of EVs will reduce pollution and help slow the effects of climate change. A significant impediment to broader EV adoption is both a public charging infrastructure that can support long-distance travel and chargers that can recharge an EV battery
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Tesla released interesting and rare details about its approach to sourcing lithium, nickel, and cobalt directly from mines instead of through its cell suppliers. This approach is going to be critical as companies fight to secure those minerals for battery production to support electric vehicle growth. While Tesla sources the vast majority of its battery
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Ford has filed a patent application for a system to remotely rev engines. Remote engine start has been around for awhile, but a patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on May 5 describes revving the engine beyond idle speeds while stationary. This would be controlled by a device such
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Audi reports that its car sales during the first quarter of 2022 decreased by 16.8% to 385,084, although a year ago the first quarter was “above-average.” According to the manufacturer, the two main causes behind the noticeable decline are supply shortages and renewed COVID-19 lockdowns in China. With this as background, all-electric car sales of
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This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This week that includes new electric bikes from the original Mini Cooper maker, FREY launching a fat tire version of the CC commuter e-bike, C3STROM’s motorcycle style e-bike, dueling cannonball runs on electric
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A 24 Hours of Daytona-winning Jaguar XJR-9 is headed to the seller’s block at RM Sotheby’s Monaco auction on May 14. The XJR-9 competed in the top GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) class of the IMSA GT Championship. Spanning the 1980s, the GTP era was arguably the most competitive in IMSA history, featuring iconic cars like
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Finding Free Is the Key To Low-Cost EVing I’m not sure why, but my news feed seems to be full of stories about how it’s often more expensive to charge an EV than one thinks, often times costing more than the gas equivalent vehicle. Why this is, I have no clue, but there are lots
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