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E-Bike Incentive Programs Need Well-Defined Goals To Be More Effective
Incentive programs meant to catalyze the adoption of greener, cleaner, low carbon technologies, such as we’ve seen with solar and EVs, and most recently e-bikes, can be effective if done right, but when a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all approach is used, they can end up being not very cost-effective or efficient in ... [continued]
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Amazon Autos Begins Selling Hyundai Cars Online
Hyundai is the first automaker to work with Amazon Autos to sell its cars online. Odds are, others will soon follow.
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India Solar Power Installations Growing 106% in 2024
India continues to be a solar and wind powerhouse, no pun intended. In fact, its solar power installations have absolutely soared this year. Compared to the first three quarters of 2023, newly installed solar power capacity in the first three quarters of 2024 was up 106%. New wind power capacity ... [continued]
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GM Pulls The Plug On Cruise Robotaxi Business
Cruise, the robotaxi arm of General Motors, will be shut down and its operations folded into self driving technology for cars and trucks.
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El Paso Has a Great Challenge for ADAS Systems
When it comes to developing driver assist systems, autonomous vehicles, or even aiming for self-driving cars, it’s never easy. Even corporate behemoths like GM have been struggling to stay in the game when the challenges got to be too much and incidents on the road led to a loss of ... [continued]
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Italy: 1.5 Gigawatts for Agrivoltaics
Agrivoltaics have been all the rage this year, and perhaps they’re raging nowhere more than in Italy. Italy just recently held its first ever tender for agrivoltaics, and it was a big one! Bel Paese awarded contracts for 1.5 gigawatts of agrivoltaics solar projects within its borders. That’s spread across ... [continued]
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Xiaomi Targets 130,000 Sales in First 10 Months, Announces SUV — YU7
There are several very exciting electric vehicle startups in China. Naturally, BYD is king of the hill and will remain there for a long time, but several others are doing exceptionally well if we compare them to automakers elsewhere. But Xiaomi is really different. As the second-largest smartphone producer in ... [continued]
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Zeekr Sales Increase 106% in November
We saw XPENG sales increase 54% in November. We saw NIO sales increase 29%. We saw BYD sales increase 67% (to more than 500,000 in November). But Zeekr’s got them all beat. Zeekr’s sales were 106% higher in November 2024 than they were in November 2023. Zeekr reached 27,011 sales ... [continued]
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Experience the 1st Electric Hydrofoil: A Pollution-Free Silent Electric Hydrofoil Ferry That Captures the Timelessness of the Sea
New Zealand seems like the other side of the world, and is certainly a land and sea that many would love to explore. There is the timelessness of the water to experience, as well as the mountains and caves. Now, beginning at Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour, the Electric Hydrofoil Experience provides ... [continued]
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Trump To Trample On USPS Electric Delivery Vehicle Contracts
The contract to supply electric vehicles to the USPS is under attack by the Trump transition team that wants more polluting vehicles.
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Dam Removal Revitalizes Salmon In Win For Native Tribes
If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at ... [continued]
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The T1 Pro E-Cargo Bike Shows Some Next-Level Thinking
There are e-cargo bikes, and then there are e-cargo bikes… On the one hand, there are electric cargo bikes that include a little more room for carrying stuff in their design, but are otherwise pretty much like a bog-standard electric bicycle, sorta like the basic modern crossover design in automobiles, ... [continued]
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Tesla 2nd Highest Selling Automaker in California
I published earlier today about the top selling electric vehicle models in California. For a thorough exploration into those, see that article. Below I’m taking a broader look and examining auto brand sales and the EV share of the overall market. To kick off, it’s certainly highly notable that 22.2% ... [continued]
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Chinese EV Companies Are Getting A Warm Welcome In Mexico
Chinese car companies are having success in Mexico. How long will it be before they enter the US new car market?
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We Have Toxic Winter Air Again On The Utah Wasatch Front. What Are We Doing About It?
In winter on the Utah Wasatch Front, on average we have 5 days, particularly in Salt Lake County, when the air is unsafe to breathe. There are another 18 days, on average, when the air is only “bad” to breathe. You will find naysayers like our President Elect who will ... [continued]
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