Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:15:20 +0000
Fleet operators are more attuned to total cost of ownership calculations than private vehicle owners. EVs can save them lots of money.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:34:29 +0000
Following the “We, Robot” event, I lamented that Tesla didn’t roll out the one notable thing I thought they might roll out — a ridesharing app that Tesla owners (and people needing rides) could start using before robotaxis become a thing. As I noted, the following is a screenshot of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:05:00 +0000
Based on what Tesla wrote in its quarterly shareholder letter, I published the other day that Tesla did indeed have cheaper electric vehicle models coming out next year. The core lines from the Tesla shareholder letter on this were as follows: “Our cost of goods sold (COGS) per vehicle came … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:15:06 +0000
The new electric vehicles from Scout Motors parlay dials, buttons, and switches into a rugged 1970s-era DIY off-grid vibe with 21st century V2X capability and other modern electronic systems.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:13:50 +0000
In the past few days I’ve been going deep on some very odd results out of a Canadian transit think tank’s research and reports for client municipalities, finding that bad assumptions and worse scenarios resulted in $1.5 billion being taken off of hydrogen bus costs. Discussion around this led to … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:42:37 +0000
Softcar’s newly revealed 4-seater electric microcar, which is a small urban electric vehicle classified as a L7e (heavy quadricycle) in the EU, aims to lead the auto industry “fully into the circular economy” with its net-zero cars that will be built locally in net-zero micro-factories. The Softcar’s 4-seater configuration sets … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:34:46 +0000
EV sales were 9 percent of total new car sales in the US in September. Cox Automotive expects the to crack the 10 percent barrier soon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:35:40 +0000
Kia says it will bring its light duty electric vans to Europe and the UK soon to help meet stricter emissions standards in cities.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:12:01 +0000
South Africa’s charging network is growing all the time. EV drivers can now comfortably do road trips along most of the country’s major highways. Drivers can now also do road tips to resorts in neighbouring countries such as Lesotho. To showcase this, Ryan Jarret recently took a trip from Johannesburg, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:58:28 +0000
Update: Also see “Correction, and Confusion: What Are Tesla’s Next, Cheaper Models?” for more discussion on this topic. Despite a lot of confusion on this matter in the past year or so, Tesla reaffirmed in its 3rd quarter shareholder letter and on its shareholder conference call today that the company … [continued]
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