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Trucking Will Electrify, But What Hills Must Be Flattened?

December 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, Shipping, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:33:24 +0000

Key Takeaways Grid upgrades for high truck charging demands can take years Microgrids with buffering batteries and solar enable charging immediately Depots and truck stops require different charging technologies and have different energy profiles One of the primary challenges of electrifying freight trucks in the United States comes down to … [continued]

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More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: The Rise Of The Drop-In EV Charging Station

December 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments arpa-e, clean power, clean transport, dcfc, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev fast chargers, ev fast-charge stations, ev fast-charging, green economy, grid, grid modernization, Solar energy, startups

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:20:10 +0000

The new EV charging station solution from DC Grid combines DC fast-charging technology with quick and simple no-trench installation.

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XPENG Center in Australia Launches in Sydney

December 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments Australia, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Sydney, xpeng

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:52:04 +0000

The EV story of the year is the expansion of Chinese electric vehicle companies across the world. The latest chapter in that story is XPENG setting up a big new headquarters in Australia. It’s the first XPENG center in the Southern Hemisphere. XPENG launched the G6 in Australia a few … [continued]

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CATL Plans Big Battery Swapping Push

December 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, catl, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery swapping, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:43:36 +0000

CATL, the largest battery manufacturer in the world, is planning a major new push into battery swapping technology.

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Oil Consumption Growth Trends in China, India, & USA — Is 2025 Forecast Accurate?

December 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments China, clean transport, Electric vehicles, energy information administration (eia), Fossil Fuels, India, market research, middle east, Oil, oil consumption, research, US, us oil

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:06:31 +0000

The US Energy Information Administration put out an interesting article today. The headline focused on growth of oil consumption in India compared to China — “India to surpass China as the top source of global oil consumption growth in 2024 and 2025.” I sat looking at the chart for several … [continued]

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GM/ChargePoint Deal Shows The Complex Future Of EV Charging

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments chargepoint, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, gm

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:32:14 +0000

A new deal between GM and ChargePoint has many EV enthusiasts feeling a bit lost. I mean, didn’t GM recently make a lot of progress building stations with EVgo and host businesses like Pilot and Flying J? To get to the bottom of this, we have to first explore some … [continued]

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New Tesla Model Y with Facelift Going into Production in January — Report

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla china, tesla model y, tesla model y china, tesla model y juniper, tesla shanghai

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:59:23 +0000

We’ve long been waiting for a new, facelifted Tesla Model Y (“Model Y Juniper”) to launch following the launch of the new, facelifted Tesla Model 3 (“Model 3 Highland”). After all, they are mostly the same vehicle — the Model Y being just a bit taller and longer. Initially, about … [continued]

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BYD Seal Wins a Japan Car of the Year Award — 1st Chinese Car to Achieve This!

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments byd, byd seal, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Japan

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:58:01 +0000

BYD news has been flying in. Here are a few more stories. BYD Seal Wins Prestigious Japan Car of the Year Award BYD is on a roll, but even with that said, I was a bit shocked to see it winning a Japan Car of the Year award! A Chinese … [continued]

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As Gogoro Expands in Latin America, Executive Changes Come in Taiwan

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery swapping, chile, clean transport, Colombia, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev battery swapping, gogoro, latin america, motorcycles + scooters, Santiago, South America

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:19:33 +0000

Latin America is Gogoro CEO Horace Luke’s last official function After opening shop in Bogota, Colombia, last May, Gogoro launched in Santiago, Chile, just last month. In both instances, the battery swapping and smartscooter company inked deals with fuel and lubricant companies — Tepel in Colombia and Copec in Chile. … [continued]

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Salton Sea Lithium Researchers Win Award for Societal Impact

December 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, geothermal lithium, geothermal technologies office, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), lithium, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, research, Salton Sea, SCIENCE, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:55:05 +0000

If electric cars are the cars of the future (and they are), then batteries are sort of the gasoline of the future (well, really, they should be considered the gas tanks of the future … but gas tanks aren’t nearly as valuable, technical, or worth discussing). What’s in those batteries … [continued]

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