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Li Auto CEO Thinks Autonomous Cars Need Lidar in China

January 16, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, li auto, li xiang, robotaxis, tesla, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:47:49 +0000

It’s a longstanding and vigorous debate — will robotaxis need lidar, or are cameras alone adequate? Of course, we have several companies now operating robotaxis in China, the US, and elsewhere. Those all use lidar. However, Elon Musk has said for about a decade that robotaxis shouldn’t need lidar, and … [continued]

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Colombia EV Sales Report: EVs Grow 159% YoY, Reach Record 8.5% Market Share in December!

January 16, 2025 admin byd, byd seagull, byd yuan up, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, Colombia, colombia ev sales, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, kia ev5, market research, phev, research, volvo ex30

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:12:50 +0000

After years of EVs being priced well above their thermal competition, the arrival of a veritable armada of competitively priced EVs in Colombia (most, but not all, being Chinese) has resulted in the obvious consequence: people are buying them in droves. Record after record has been placed since October, with … [continued]

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Electric Vehicle Sales Leaders — Best Selling OEMs, Part 4 of 4

January 16, 2025 admin byd, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, geely, hybrid electric cars, phev, tesla

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:42:47 +0000

A closer look at the best-selling PEV automotive groups — edition 4 of 4 This is the fourth and final edition of a series looking at the top selling OEMs in terms of plugin vehicle sales. To check out the other ones, please click here, here, and here. In this … [continued]

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Volkswagen ID.7 Goes 941 Kilometers (585 Miles) On One Charge

January 16, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Volkswagen, volkswagen id.7

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:30:44 +0000

The Volkswagen ID.7 may not have won 2024 CleanTechnica Car of the Year in Europe, grabbing the silver medal instead, but it’s an extremely capable, compelling, and cool car that deserves more attention than it gets. The company is pulling in a little bit more of that attention today. A non-modified, … [continued]

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Re-X Before Recycling Prize To Extend the Lifetimes of Manufactured Products

January 16, 2025 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery recycling, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:57:02 +0000

Ten teams receive a collective $1.5 million and Phase 3 opens to returning competitors. Latest Announcement The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) today announced the Phase 2 winners of the Re-X Before Recycling Prize, a competition to identify, prepare, and develop innovative ways to … [continued]

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Commercial & United States Postal Service (USPS) Electric Delivery Vans Spreading Out Across USA

January 15, 2025 admin Amazon, clean transport, electric cars, electric delivery vans, electric delivery vehicles, electric vans, Electric vehicles, oshkosh, oshkosh corporation, oshkosh defense, rivian, rivian van, usps

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:30:23 +0000

Two years ago this month, I saw my first Amazon Prime Rivian electric delivery van (lead figure of this article) just across my street. The driver said he loved the new van and was kind enough to pose for pictures and show me inside. He said Amazon already had ~100 … [continued]

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New Škoda Enyaq Revealed

January 15, 2025 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, Europe, GERMANY, skoda, skoda enyaq

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:53:29 +0000

In the US, electric vehicle news tends to be about Tesla, Chevy, Ford, Rivian, etc., and recently because BYD has made and sold so many EVs, there has been more attention on the Chinese competition. Zach has been diligently writing about Xiaomi, Zeeker, Xpeng, and some others which counters the … [continued]

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Did Aptera Make A Splash At CES?

January 15, 2025 admin aptera, ces, clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:28:54 +0000

If you’ve been following Aptera at all, you’ve probably heard a lot of pessimism from mainstream EV fans and investors, while also hearing a lot of enthusiastic things from Aptera fans. I’ve been on both sides of this myself. Initially, I was very excited about the vehicle’s planned unique features, … [continued]

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RedNote (小红书) Shows The Looming Futility Of Banning Chinese EVs

January 15, 2025 admin China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev tariffs, policy & politics, tiktok

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:16:55 +0000

If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that I’m not the biggest fan of China’s government. While nobody’s government is perfect (especially the one I live under in the United States), the actions of the Communist Party are often inexcusable. From threatening to nuke neighbors to … [continued]

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China’s EV Export Era Is A Bigger Geopolitical Move Than We Normally Acknowledge

January 14, 2025 admin byd, China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, Oil, policy & politics, US, us oil

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:58:34 +0000

It’s clear to anyone following the global EV market — the Chinese EV market is much bigger than any other EV market (it accounts for about 50% of the global EV market all by itself), Chinese EV producers now absolutely dominate their home market, and some of those Chinese EV … [continued]

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