XPENG Awarded “AAA” ESG Rating

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:15:35 +0000

This is an interesting piece of news. Electric vehicle producer XPENG shared this week that it has gotten a “AAA” designation for its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. I’m not going to lie — it’s not something I ever thought about with the company. But I’m happily surprised to … [continued]

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NIO & XPENG Expand into Azerbaijan & Nepal

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:14:42 +0000

Chinese electric vehicle producers continue to expand across the world. In the latest cases, NIO has announced expansion into Azerbaijan and XPENG has announced expansion into Nepal. NIO’s Entry into Azerbaijan NIO has partnered with Green Car in Azerbaijan, where COP29 (the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN … [continued]

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Get Your Electric Car Order In ASAP! Trump Plans To Kill $7,500 EV Tax Credit.

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:28:49 +0000

Well, here we go. Aside from some truly insane and absurd Cabinet picks, which I’m not even going to write about here (but let’s just say it’s well beyond putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse), we’re getting some initial leaks on Donald Trump’s legislative plans when he takes … [continued]

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Lithium Brine Breakthrough Or Not, Thacker Pass Is Happening

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:05:45 +0000

New lithium mines will plug a gaping hole in the US EV battery supply chain until more sustainable, alternative sources emerge.

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Why My Used Chevy Bolt Is Worth So Much More Than Its Trade-In Value

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:57:47 +0000

GM discontinued the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV at the end of the 2023 model year. During an early 2024 conference call with analysts, GM CEO Mary Barra agreed that environmental benefits of EVs continue to be compelling to the company. She also admitted that GM’s EVs need to be … [continued]

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What Role Should Governments Play in the rEVolution?

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:53:45 +0000

We all know the story about Norway and the massive government incentives to increase the uptake of electric vehicles in that country. We now see the start of a trade war between China and the west over China’s exports of subsidised EVs. The USA is talking about higher and higher … [continued]

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Zeekr Taking Over Lynk & Co

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 01:58:48 +0000

Geely is the giant EV company no one talks about. It’s the parent of Volvo Cars, Polestar, Zeekr, Lynk & Co, and others. Naturally, it’s a complicated company. Now, news is that it’s simplifying a little (or getting more complicated?), in that Zeekr is taking control of Lynk & Co. … [continued]

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CATL Founder’s Comments Tell Us Something About Tesla–CATL Relationship & Tesla–China Relationship

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:25:08 +0000

I have to admit — I wrote the article about CATL founder Robin Zeng’s comments on Elon Musk and Tesla batteries quite late last night, and I did not fully tease out what those comments meant. One of our readers, “Pitounet,” did a much better job of that in this … [continued]

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Best Value for Money EVs — Midsize (D Segment)

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:42:53 +0000

This is the fourth of a five-part series of articles (you can check the others here: part one, part two and part three), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. See the background for this series in the first two articles if you missed them. … [continued]

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It’s One Thing To Read About EV Progress, It’s Another To See It For Yourself “In The Wild”

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:50:01 +0000

It’s one thing to read about EV progress or see it at a dealer, it’s another to see it for yourself “in the wild.” I’ve been reading about the GMC Hummer EV now for at least a couple of years. Those of us who believe in modest vehicles think the … [continued]

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