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General Motors’ Future Electric Vehicles to Debut Industry’s First Wireless Battery Management System

General Motors’ Future Electric Vehicles to Debut Industry’s First Wireless Battery Management System

General Motors will be the first automaker to use an almost completely wireless battery management system, or wBMS, for production electric vehicles. This wireless system, developed with Analog Devices, Inc., will be a primary driver of GM’s ability to ultimately power many different types of electric vehicles from a ... Continue reading

25 Years Later GM Spurns In-house Fuel Cell and Battery Scientists And Makes Deal With Nicola

25 Years Later GM Spurns In-house Fuel Cell and Battery Scientists And Makes Deal With Nicola

•General Motors expects to receive in excess of $4 billion of benefits between the equity value of the shares, contract manufacturing of the Badger, supply contracts for batteries and fuel cells, and EV credits retained over the life of the contract •General Motors to be exclusive supplier of fuel cells globally (o ... Continue reading

Demand for Renewable Natural Gas Accelerates as Clean Energy Inks Deals for Over 20 Million Gallons in Past 45 Days

Demand for Renewable Natural Gas Accelerates as Clean Energy Inks Deals for Over 20 Million Gallons in Past 45 Days

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced new and extended contracts for more than 20 million gallons of Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to accommodate the continued demand across key business segments for the ultra-low carbon fuel produced from organic waste. ... Continue reading

Hyundai Nexo H2 Fuel Cell SUV Is For Lease At 4 California Dealerships

Hyundai Nexo H2 Fuel Cell SUV Is For Lease At 4 California Dealerships

Hyundai fuels the advancement of sustainable mobility and zero emissions solutions with its NEXO fuel cell SUV, now also available at a Hyundai dealer near Sacramento. ... Continue reading

Lucid Motors Unveils Lucid Air Most Powerful and Efficient Luxury Electric Sedan +VIDEO Of Complete Reveal (1:30)

Lucid Motors Unveils Lucid Air Most Powerful and Efficient Luxury Electric Sedan +VIDEO Of Complete Reveal (1:30)

Lucid Motors, unveiled production details for the highly anticipated Lucid Air in a global web broadcast from its Silicon Valley headquarters. ... Continue reading

Porsche researches synthetic fuels

Porsche researches synthetic fuels

Although synthetic fuels are considered a realistic alternative to make car traffic more climate-friendly, availability is poor. Porsche wants to change this. ... Continue reading

Analog Devices Introduces Automotive Industry’s First Wireless Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles

Analog Devices Introduces Automotive Industry’s First Wireless Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles

This is the first wireless battery management system available for production electric vehicles, and it will debut on General Motors’ production vehicles powered by Ultium batteries. ... Continue reading

Toyota and Honda to Begin Demonstration Testing of a Fuel Cell Bus Mobile Power Generation

Toyota and Honda to Begin Demonstration Testing of a Fuel Cell Bus Mobile Power Generation

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Honda) will create a mobile power generation/output system, Moving e, that consists of a fuel cell bus that can carry a large amount of hydrogen, portable external power output devices and portable batteries, and will begin demonstration testing of the system's ... Continue reading

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Conversion Kit Market | Enforcement of Regulations to Boost Growth | Technavio

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Conversion Kit Market | Enforcement of Regulations to Boost Growth | Technavio

Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle Conversion Kit Market 2020-2024 . ... Continue reading

COVID-19 Recovery Analysis: Light and Heavy Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Market | Increasing Focus on Emission Reduction to Boost Market Growth | Technavio

COVID-19 Recovery Analysis: Light and Heavy Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Market | Increasing Focus on Emission Reduction to Boost Market Growth | Technavio

latest market research report titled Global Light and Heavy duty Natural Gas Vehicle Market 2020-2024 environment. ... Continue reading

Business Insider Compares Luxury Electric SUV's

Business Insider Compares Luxury Electric SUV's

Business Insider compared every luxury electric SUV currently on the market in the US and forthcoming, and Tesla's Model X was the clear winner. There are five fully electric SUVs currently available in the US or coming soon to the US luxury vehicle market. ... Continue reading

GM and Honda Agree To Share Platfoms and Technology

GM and Honda Agree To Share Platfoms and Technology

General Motors and Honda today announced they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding following extensive preliminary discussions toward establishing a North American automotive alliance. The scope of the proposed alliance includes a range of vehicles to be sold under each company’s distinct brands, as ... Continue reading

Kandi America Unveils Micro Hub Concept for Dealer Partners

Kandi America Unveils Micro Hub Concept for Dealer Partners

Kandi America announces the creation of a micro hub showroom designed to increase profit margins for dealerships. ... Continue reading

THE ETHANOL PAPERS by Marc J. Rauch Wins Literary Award from Readers' Favorite

THE ETHANOL PAPERS by Marc J. Rauch Wins Literary Award from Readers' Favorite

Readers' Favorite is proud to announce that "The Ethanol Papers" by Marc J Rauch won the Honorable Mention Award in the Non-Fiction - Environment category ... Continue reading

Lucid Air Luxury Sexy $160,000 Electric Sedan - Private Jet Interior, Formula E 500 Miles Range, Electrifying

Lucid Air Luxury Sexy $160,000 Electric Sedan - Private Jet Interior, Formula E 500 Miles Range, Electrifying

NEWARK, CA, August 11, 2020 — Lucid Motors, which seeks to set new standards for sustainable transportation with its advanced luxury EVs, today announced independent range verification of 517 miles on a single charge for its forthcoming Lucid Air all-electric sedan. This new benchmark range was secured with FEV North ... Continue reading

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