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After months of wavering, The Fast Lane (TFL) network of YouTube channels finally decided to pull the trigger on a Tesla Cybertruck. So it was only a matter of time before TFL Truck put the new electric truck through its paces by towing on the Ike Gauntlet. For this test, they’ve brought along two other big players in the truck market to compete against. Not the F-150 Lightning or the Silverado EV. No, the Cybertruck will be facing off against a V8 Ford F-150 XLT and a diesel Ram Cummins. The Cybertruck EV The Cybertruck has great performance and some undeniably cool tech. But its practicality…
Electrify America confirmed Thursday, on the sixth anniversary of its first fast-charger installation, that it’s planning a big expansion of its fast-charging network in 2024. EA aims to reach 5,000 chargers by the end of the year, including larger charging stations and broader support for Plug & Charge payment tech. In 2023 it expanded into North Dakota and Hawaii, pushing its total number of chargers over 4,000 by the end of the year. According to the DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center, as of May 2, there are currently 931 Electrify America station locations and 4,182 charge ports; the latter corresponds…
Alright, I’m a believer now. EVs can stir up joy like nearly any production track tool, so long as they follow Hyundai’s lead. But just because something can perform a task doesn’t make it the best tool for the job. Or even a particularly good one. (Shout out to my long-suffering Tacoma, which sinks against its bump stops like some soggy peasant when hauling a yard of soil from Home Depot). During the media drive of the Ioniq 5 N at Laguna Seca, the Hyundai hammered down the track’s front straight, again and again without fatigue. This hot hatch’s hole-shot…
Great Wall Motor plans to achieve overseas sales of over 1 million units by 2030, with premium models accounting for more than 1/3 of the total, it said. (Image credit: CnEVPost) Great Wall Motor has postponed its goal of achieving 1 million annual sales overseas, as global market conditions become more challenging. Great Wall Motor plans to achieve overseas sales of more than 1 million units by 2030, with premium models accounting for more than one-third of the total, the Chinese carmaker said in a post published on its WeChat account yesterday. The latest plan is a delay from the…
Gogoro, the global leader in battery-swapping for light electric vehicles like scooters and motorcycles, just can’t seem to slow down. After a week full of major news, the company is back with perhaps its biggest announcement lately: a plan for a major partnership that will see the company greatly expand the use of its swappable battery standard. Oh, and not just for light electric vehicles anymore. Today, Gogoro announced signing an MOU to form a new partnership with Japanese giants Sumitomo Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd. (SMFL) to accelerate Gogoro’s global business expansion. The agreement is…
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about the impending wave of cheap Chinese electric cars that may upend the U.S. auto market as we know it. Even Donald Trump waded into the topic recently when he predicted a “bloodbath” for American manufacturing due to an influx of Chinese vehicles. If elected, he said, he’d slap a 100% tariff on Chinese cars. As bombastic and controversial as that statement was, Trump isn’t totally off-base. The rapid rise of China as a global exporter of high-quality, affordable electric cars poses a real threat to established Western automakers, many of whom are…
Hyundai reneges on the promise of an all-EV plant. Polestar tests a different kind of battery at the charger. Federal researchers see ways to make fast-charging more reliable. And the EV with Saab roots might be made in Italy. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Hyundai last week confirmed that its Metaplant in Georgia, once due to be a dedicated EV plant, will also get U.S. production of more hybrid models, as part of an effort to expand the range of hybrid trims of its gasoline vehicles. Polestar reports that with StoreDot’s “silicon-dominant” cells it has a prototype…
About a week ago, Kia dropped something pretty special in my driveway: an EV9 GT-Line! I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first, but I also remembered being pretty impressed with a Sorento Hybrid I reviewed in 2021. So, the big question was this: would Kia … [continued] The post Final Thoughts On Kia’s EV9 appeared first on CleanTechnica. Source link
WeLion and JAC Yiwei will work together to develop a model powered by 4695 large cylindrical semi-solid battery cells with a range of 600 km to 1,000 km. (Image credit: WeLion) Beijing WeLion New Energy Technology, a supplier of semi-solid-state batteries to Nio (NYSE: NIO), and an electric vehicle (EV) unit of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) have reached an agreement to jointly develop long-range cars. WeLion signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Yiwei, the EV arm of JAC, on April 22, according to a statement from the battery startup yesterday. The two companies will collaborate on the development of…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There have been a lot of questions about the Tesla Cybertruck’s mass-production potential since the truck was first shown, and we’re clearly in a kind of “production hell” period of the Cybertruck ramp-up. Recently, production was paused and a recall issued because of an issue with the accelerator pedal. Nonetheless, Cybertruck production capacity is slowly ramping up. In the Tesla shareholder letter today and then also on the conference call, it was stated that Tesla reached production of 1,000 Cybertrucks in a single week…