Month: June 2023

LG Energy Solution and lithium exploration company Green Technology Metals (GT1) have signed an AUD20-million equity subscription agreement and an offtake term sheet,  giving LG access to future production from GT1’s flagship Seymour Project in North America. According to the offtake term sheet, GT1 will sell LG Energy Solution 25% of its spodumene concentrate production
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Mercedes-Benz, in collaboration with Swiss mobility company Micro Mobility Systems, has introduced the Mercedes-AMG E-Scooter, designed for city dwellers, commuters and last-mile applications. Equipped with a 500-watt motor and a 9.6 Ah battery, the e-scooter has a range of up to 40 km and a top speed of 20 km/h. It weighs 14.7 kg and
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Electric car sales are on the uptick. In January 2023, EVs accounted for 7.1 percent of the U.S. new car market share. Broadening out to the first quarter of this year, most manufacturers are seeing massive sales increases, with Tesla, Ford, Volkswagen, and others seeing huge year-over-year improvements.  However, while consumer sales are one thing,
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There’s no form of wheeled transport, whether for recreation or utility use, that is safe from the sweeping wave of electrification. Those maintenance-prone, expensive and carcinogen-spewing combustion engines are on their way out in nearly every industry, not the least of which includes lawn-care. The only problem is that the larger and fancier zero-turn electric
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IDTechEx’s “Semiconductors for Autonomous and Electric Cars 2023-2033” report predicts a 20.9% one-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in semiconductors for electric powertrains due to the mainstream adoption of EVs. The report breaks down chips and wafers and notes that the battery management system (BMS) contributes to one-third of the silicon used to make electric
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Road Test: 2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI S Hot Hatch Fun! Strap in. Feel the engine rumble. Engage the clutch. Try to stop smiling. We can end right here, but that would not be doing the 2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI S justice. This hatchback needs to be driven; nay, wants to be driven. Which is exactly
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GM’s CEO Mary Barra made some big statements about GM and Tesla suggesting her company will make more EVs by in 2025 in the US than Tesla. To help me tackle this topic, my guest is the Founder of the Kilowatts YouTube channel Ryan Levenson. OUR SPONSORS: ❤️ Chesapeake Climate Action Network – Visit https://bit.ly/EVraffleE4electric
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Smart energy specialist SolarEdge Technologies has added a solar-attached EV management solution to its suite of products and software for the commercial and industrial segment. The new software-based solution manages and optimizes the EV charging process for sites that require dynamic load management and have large quantities of EVs, such as apartment buildings, workplaces and
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Unraveling Electric Car Insurance Costs in 2023 Checking Out All the Options To Get the Best Deal This article may contain affiliate links. As the world pivots towards a greener future, electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming the vehicle of choice for an increasing number of drivers. However, owning an EV is about more than just
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KOA, the largest network of campgrounds across the US and Canada, reports the number of camping households has grown 77 percent since 2015. The total number stood at 57 million in 2021, which was an 18-percent increase over the prior year.  With this level of popularity, it was inevitable that people begin taking their new
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Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date will feature recyclable wind turbine blades made by Siemens Gamesa. In 2022, renewable energy giant RWE became the first commercial, large-scale offshore developer to install Siemens Gamesa’s recyclable wind turbine blade technology, RecyclableBlade, at its Kaskasi offshore wind farm in Germany. (The blades pictured above are at Kaskasi.) RecyclableBlades will also
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Multimodal transportation provider Schneider National has completed an electric charging depot at its South El Monte Intermodal Operations Center in Southern California. The depot will power the company’s battery-electric truck fleet, which will include nearly 100 Freightliner eCascadias by year’s end. The 4,900-square-foot charging site, which was designed and built in cooperation with Black &
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