Newly formed eVTOL racing league Airspeeder has successfully completed its first competitive drag race in Southern Australia. The drag race put two teams from Alauda Aeronautics head-to-head as a development series, ahead of eVTOL Grand Prix in 2022 and a global Airspeeder racing series in 2023. Airspeeder is a newly formed electric vertical take-off and
Hyundai on Wednesday provided a teasing look at a concept that previews a large electric crossover set to join the automaker’s Ioniq family of battery-electric vehicles in 2024, possibly as the Ioniq 7. The concept is called the Seven, which backs rumors of the Ioniq 7 name being used for the production model, as well
Hyundai has given an additional glimpse of an all-electric SUV concept that previews its upcoming Ioniq 7, due in 2024. The concept, called Seven, is due to be fully revealed at the LA auto show later on November 17. According to the company, the Seven concept “captures Hyundai Motor’s future design and technology innovation in
Tesla as an investment over the years has had many people wondering. When Tesla entered the S&P 500 in December, 2020, CNBC mused that the event was a sign of “just how powerful index investing has become.” Tesla was the biggest stock addition ever then, and, after a decade as a public company, it has
By Joey Klender Posted on November 3, 2021 A 2019 automobile accident that claimed the life of a 50-year-old man has resulted in a trial that will call Tesla CEO Elon Musk and National Highway Traffic Safety Advisor Missy Cummings as witnesses. The trial will dial in on Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system, which Banner’s
Hyundai revealed two teaser images of the “sleek and spacious” Seven – an all-electric SUV that will be unveiled at the AutoMobility LA show on November 17. It’s an important concept, because it directly previews the upcoming E-GMP-based Hyundai Ioniq 7 SUV. The South Korean manufacturer says that the Seven concept captures the company’s “future
Eaton has introduced the EVK Series, a new line of Bussmann series fuses. The high-voltage fuses are designed for high-powered EVs, and offer ratings up to 1,000 VDC and 600 amps. Eaton says it can verify proper fuse-life performance and reliability for the lifetime of the vehicle. When severe short circuits occur due to a
Tesla is working on moving driver profiles to the cloud in order to sync them between vehicles. It will make it easier for owners of multiple Teslas and for people renting or sharing Tesla vehicles. Over the last few years, Tesla has been making moves to build a smooth experience for a self-driving and car-sharing
Sponsored by Munters In the past year, electric mobility and the demand for lithium-ion batteries has surged beyond expectations and this trend is set to continue. This is leading to a boom in lithium-ion cell production facilities all over the world. As countries look to reduce or ban vehicle-related emissions, some as early as 2030,
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Volvo is applying mild-hybrid tech to the rest of its lineup on the way to all-electric. Volkswagen is seeking a way to charge the Taycan and other premium EVs very quickly without charge cords. And Tesla is now accepting other brands’ EVs at a select few Supercharger stations. This and more, here at Green Car
Rental Company Makes Major Move to EVs How quickly things can change in the modern marketplace. Hertz just exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization at the end of June, after a rough year in which the pandemic brought its business to a near stand-still. Business was starting to ramp back up, the company added a new
By Eric Ralph Posted on November 2, 2021 SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic AI, though, “Skynet” refers to the United Kingdom’s planned Skynet 6A spacecraft – part of a family of military communications satellites that far predate their science fiction
Today at the global climate summit in Glasgow, better known as COP26, a UK startup called ZipCharge introduced its portable electric vehicle charger called the Go – and we’re pretty stoked. The Go is compact, about the size and shape of an average-sized carry-on suitcase, and weighs about 50-lbs. It has a 4 kWh (net
Which huge global carmaker seems to have gone all Occupy Wall Street in its messaging? And, what higher-range electric car in development now has its very own video? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse–right here at Green Car Reports–for the week ending on Friday, June 26, 2015. For links to
Tesla unexpectedly announced it’ll be designing its next model in China and released a mystery sketch on its Chinese social media account. Could this be the Model 2 I have been hoping for and will this be the real affordable electric car at $25,000? Eli Burton from My Tesla Adventure is here to give his
A Fully Charged Home: What should it include? Robert Llewellyn talks to Sytse Zuidema, Rebecca Dibb-Simkin and Steven Day. This talk took place on Saturday 9th June 2018 at 12:00pm, as part of Fully Charged Live 2018 at Silverstone, UK. Please subscribe to stay informed when new episodes come out! And if you would like
ABBs digital e-mobility venture, PANION, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are testing a jointly developed cloud-based solution for real-time management of EV fleets and charging infrastructure. The new PANION EV Charge Planning solution enables operators to monitor energy usage and schedule charging across their fleets. ABB is developing technical infrastructure to offer a Platform as
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) unveiled a hydrogen-powered zero emission ambulance this week at Glasgow’s COP26 climate change conference. The vehicle will help the NHS reduce its contribution to UK road emissions and improve air quality and therefore health – thus making health workers’ jobs a little easier to boot. The Greener NHS program
In a move that has wide-reaching implications for the future of the EV market, Tesla has launched a “Non-Tesla Supercharger pilot” at 10 locations in the Netherlands. The company announced in July that it would open its vaunted Supercharger network to drivers of other companies’ EVs. The 10 stations are now accessible to Dutch non-Tesla
Tesla has updated Model 3 and Model Y ranges with the 2022 model year and most of them got higher ranges – though it depends on the wheels. In an overnight update to its online configurator, Tesla changes the ranges of several of its most popular Model 3 and Model Y trims. The update seems
Volkswagen on Monday unveiled an updated Jetta . The updates are due for the 2022 model year and extend to our favorite variant, the Jetta GLI. The updates bring revised fascias including a more aggressive design for the range-topping GLI, along with new colors and wheel patterns, but the big news is the addition of
Toyota shows that EVs aren’t tedious, with some technology firsts in its upcoming bZ4X. The 2019 Audi E-Tron SUV is getting more range. Some Tesla models are being recalled. And yes, EVs emit less than other vehicle types over their lifetime. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A steering yoke, a solar roof,
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By Joey Klender Posted on November 1, 2021 Rivian is set to launch its initial public offering next week with a proposed valuation of just over $60 billion, according to a new report. Rivian will disclose its target valuation in an updated regulatory filing later today, according to The Wall Street Journal. Rivian will begin pitching
Global passenger plug-in electric car sales doubled year-over-year in September to over 685,000 (up 98%), which is the new all-time monthly record (16% better than the previous one from June). Not only that. The market share, according to Jose Pontes (based on EV-Volumes data), has reached a new all-time record of 10.2% – the first double
Hertz appears to be taking a page from Tesla’s marketing playbook, using the automaker’s classic “But wait, there’s more!” strategy. Just days after announcing that it would purchase 100,000 Teslas by the end of 2022, Hertz now says it will make up to 50,000 of these available for Uber drivers to rent. Uber and Hertz
Tesla has secured a lithium supply contract with Ganfeng Lithium Co, the world’s largest producer of battery-grade lithium. China’s Ganfeng Lithium Co Ltd and its unit GFL International Co Ltd announced in a filing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange today that they signed a three-year supply agreement with Tesla. Ganfeng didn’t confirm the amount of
The Lion Electric Company has received a conditional purchase order for 1,000 all-electric LionC school buses from fleet operator Student Transportation of Canada (a subsidiary of Student Transportation of America). The purchase order is conditioned on STC receiving a grant from Infrastructure Canada’s Zero-Emission Transit Fund. Through the ZETF program, the government of Canada aims