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Taking Your Old Leaf On A Summer Road Trip - Don't Do It

Taking Your Old Leaf On A Summer Road Trip - Don't Do It

The #Rapidgate issue, where the passively-cooled battery heats up and charging rates slow down more than previous generations, was a particularly bad one. ... Continue reading

Follow The Reality: Essentially No BEV Charging Infrastructure In USA

Follow The Reality: Essentially No BEV Charging Infrastructure In USA

The Dutch intention to install 1.5 MILLION charge points in the next 9 years. That is half a million private charging points and a million public charging points before the end of this decade. ... Continue reading

Honda Targets 100% EV and Fuel Cell Sales Plus Advanced Driver Safety Systems in North America by 2040

Honda Targets 100% EV and Fuel Cell Sales Plus Advanced Driver Safety Systems in North America by 2040

New Honda EV models based on e:Architecture coming in North America starting from the second half of this decade, following first volume EVs in MY2024 Honda to add omnidirectional ADAS (advanced driver-assistance system) to Honda Sensing™ technologies, to all new automobile models by 2030, striving for zero auto and ... Continue reading

Kelley Blue Book Helps Car Shoppers Navigate Electric Car Tax Credits

Kelley Blue Book Helps Car Shoppers Navigate Electric Car Tax Credits

Electric cars undoubtedly are the wave of the future, and growth in the segment is on quite an upward trajectory. According to data from Cox Automotive, electrified vehicles accounted for 7.8% of the total Q1 2021 sales, up from 4.8% in the same period last year. ... Continue reading

World’s First Long-Range Solar Electric Powered Car By Lightyear Equipped With High-Tech Bridgestone Tires

World’s First Long-Range Solar Electric Powered Car By Lightyear Equipped With High-Tech Bridgestone Tires

Custom Bridgestone tires were developed for Lightyear One with ENLITEN technology which promotes low rolling resistance and requires less raw materials in production contributing to performance and environmental impact. Partnership between Lightyear and Bridgestone is a direct result of a shared focus on sustainability ... Continue reading

FEV Software Enables Efficient Battery Design for Reduced Costs in E-Mobility Development

FEV Software Enables Efficient Battery Design for Reduced Costs in E-Mobility Development

In the development of battery electric vehicles, energy storage systems are crucial. With its Energetic Layout Tool, engineering service provider FEV now offers a solution that can generate virtual battery packs quickly and easily. ... Continue reading

Hyundai Motor and BTS Jointly Celebrate Earth Day with New Hydrogen Campaign Film

Hyundai Motor and BTS Jointly Celebrate Earth Day with New Hydrogen Campaign Film

This is Hyundai Motor's second Earth Day video starring BTS, the first of which was released last year, generating over 100 million views on YouTube. Hyundai Motor has collaborated with BTS on its global hydrogen campaign since last year to spread awareness on the importance of sustainable practices and the future of h ... Continue reading

2023 Cadillac LYRIQ Auto Channel Closeup, Leading The Brand Into An All-Electric Future (Mary Put It All On The Line)

2023 Cadillac LYRIQ Auto Channel Closeup, Leading The Brand Into An All-Electric Future (Mary Put It All On The Line)

Detroit MI 2021-04-21: Today marked a pioneering moment for Cadillac that illuminates the brand’s future and resets the fundamental notions of luxury motoring. The production debut of the 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ is the culmination of a century of innovation and the beginning of a great new era. ... Continue reading

Audi Reveals Chinese Market Electric SUV Concept At Auto Shanghai 2021

Audi Reveals Chinese Market Electric SUV Concept At Auto Shanghai 2021

For the first time the presentation of AUDI AG at Auto Shanghai 2021 is taking place with two partners at a shared trade-fair stand. Audi and its Chinese partner companies FAW and SAIC are showing no fewer than four world premieres: the brand-new Audi A6 e-tron concept vehicle and the all-round updated Audi Q5L, in add ... Continue reading

Chevron, Toyota Pursue Strategic Alliance on Hydrogen

Chevron, Toyota Pursue Strategic Alliance on Hydrogen

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) announced a memorandum of understanding to explore a strategic alliance to catalyze and lead the development of commercially viable, large-scale businesses in hydrogen, with the goal to advance a ... Continue reading

Testing Anti-Ethanol Tests - UPDATED with Replies

Testing Anti-Ethanol Tests - UPDATED with Replies

Here's what happens when you do a little analysis By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL Todd Osgood produces test videos that he publishes on YouTube under the name PROJECT FARM. ... Continue reading

EV Motoring - 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 EV named World Car of the Year +VIDEO

EV Motoring - 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 EV named World Car of the Year +VIDEO

The Volkswagen ID.4 has been named “World Car of the Year 2021,” prevailing over strong global competition. The World Car Awards are presented by more than 90 international automotive journalists from 24 countries, who vote on the best innovations on the world market. ... Continue reading

EV Motoring Tutorial From Volkswagen - Almost Everything You Wanted To Know about EVs

EV Motoring Tutorial From Volkswagen - Almost Everything You Wanted To Know about EVs

Almost Everything you wanted to know about EVs (but might be afraid to ask) The electric revolution will be coming soon to a street near you. In a matter of weeks, Volkswagen will reveal the production version of the ID.4 electric SUV, part of a worldwide strategy to deliver millions of electric vehicles to help combat ... Continue reading

Webasto Shows Innovative Solutions for Future Mobility at Auto Shanghai

Webasto Shows Innovative Solutions for Future Mobility at Auto Shanghai

This year´s theme of Webasto is “Open Up New Perspectives”. It is a tribute to the wide portfolio of high quality roofs of the systems partner. At the same time, Webasto alludes to the topics innovation and future viability. ... Continue reading

Toyota announces its new BEV series, Toyota bZ, in establishment of a full line-up of electrified vehicles

Toyota announces its new BEV series, Toyota bZ, in establishment of a full line-up of electrified vehicles

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced Toyota bZ, its newly established series of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), in establishment of a full line-up of electrified vehicles, on April 19. At Auto Shanghai, a motor show held in Shanghai, China, Toyota unveiled a concept version of the Toyota bZ4X, which will be th ... Continue reading

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