Author: admin
Saloon unveiled the Mecha Dragon at the Guangzhou auto show in November 2021, but no new developments on the all-electric sedan have been released since. (Great Wall Motor’s premium EV brand Saloon unveiled the Mecha Dragon at the November 2021 Guangzhou auto show.) Great Wall Motor’s premium electric vehicle (EV) brand Saloon fell into silence after revealing its first model in November 2021, and now a new report said that the brand will be relaunched. Great Wall Motor plans to relaunch the Saloon brand this year, which will be integrated under the premium Wey brand, a report by local media…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After the December sales peak, the year started with an expected sales slump, but smaller than expected, with numbers almost doubling compared to last year. Although, January 2023 had a lot going against it (a covid surge, the end of EV subsidies on January 1st, the Lunar New Year celebrations happening in January). Still, 2024 started at some 668,000 passenger new energy vehicle registrations. Due to the aforementioned factors that depressed January 2023, the overall market also jumped, by over 44% year over year…
Arcfox has shipped vehicles to several countries and will accelerate its overseas sales and service network this year, it said. (Image credit: CnEVPost) Arcfox, the electric vehicle (EV) brand of Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC Group), has announced its entry into the Dominican market, further expanding its presence overseas despite its poor performance in the domestic market. Arcfox signed a partnership agreement on February 26 with Qingdao Tang Buy International Import & Export, and Sertelsa Solar of the Dominican Republic to enter the Dominican market, according to a press release today. Briunny Garabito Segura, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to China,…
The RA electric trailer from Range Energy promises to turn your diesel truck into a hybrid or extend the range of your electric semi – and now it qualifies for a $120,000 voucher in California. California’s Clean Off-Road Equipment (CORE) Voucher Project aims to make it easier for commercial fleets to decarbonize. Last July, Range became the first trailer electrification platform to be accepted into CORE with an $80,000 rebate. This year, Range Energy bumped its largest battery offering to 300 kWh. The state, in turn, showed its confidence in the electric trailer concept by bumping that rebate a full 50%.…
The U.S. is known, rightly so, as the land of big-ass gas guzzlers. One ambitious European company hopes to sell Americans on just the opposite, and to do so, it’s running a design playbook that evokes the adorably classic BMW Isetta. Swiss manufacturer Micro on Monday revealed the Microlino Lite, a quirky, tiny and cartoonishly adorable electric car that the typical American pickup truck could eat for breakfast. And yet, Micro hopes to introduce the vehicle to U.S. streets by the end of this year, a company spokesperson told The Verge. Can a wholly un-American city car help wean U.S. drivers…
In a surprising turn of events, we now learn that billionaire Dan O’Dowd bought the 3 Tesla Roadsters that were lost in a Chinese port for over a decade. Last year, we reported on a strange story of three brand-new Tesla Roadsters that were found inside a shipping container in China. It appears that a Chinese company bought the Roadster back in 2011 with the hope of reverse-engineering them. However, the shipment was blocked by customs in China and the vehicles never made it to the company. Last year, someone finally was able to get them and ship them to…
The auto industry doesn’t love admitting this, but it was really hoping that last year would be like the early 1970s were for color television—the point where a new technology takes off while an older one could begin to be phased out. With electric vehicles, adoption is proving to be less predictable than they wanted. Now many automakers want to dial back expectations for EV adoption. They’ve already convinced their shareholders. Their dealers work every day to dissuade consumers. And it’s certainly good for their balance sheets in the short term. There’s only one group left to convince: regulators pushing for…
When analyzing the all-electric vehicle (EV) market, we have noticed that the segment shifted towards all-wheel-drive (AWD) powertrains. The front-wheel-drive (FWD) and rear-wheel-drive (RWD) models are in the minority. It wasn’t always like that though. Between 2010 and 2013, there were only single-motor FWD and RWD models on the market. Things changed in the 2014 model year when Tesla introduced a dual-motor AWD version of the Model S (85D). In the 2015 model year, Tesla expanded the dual-motor family to a few versions (about a quarter of all versions on the market, at the time), and then doubled the AWD…
Some lawmakers want to ban public EV charging stations wherever gas stations aren’t permitted. Ineos revealed a fully electric off-roader while talking up its range-extended versions instead. And liquid hydrogen could have greater potential for fuel-cell long-haul semis, suggests This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Lawmakers in Kentucky have made a confounding proposal: to “protect” gas station discrimination by not allowing zoning for EV charging anywhere gas stations aren’t. Is this proposal, which could keep EVs from hotels, restaurants, and venues, fueled by increasingly partisan rhetoric about electric cars, or is there some logical sense to this? Does…
Outstanding energy consumption numbers are one of the key features of electric vehicles. High efficiency is crucial to achieve a desirable driving range while using a limited amount of energy in batteries. Basically, you can make a fast EV or one with great range, but if it’s bad at efficiency, you won’t see the benefits you want. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at a list of EPA energy consumption results—Combined, City and Highway—for U.S.-market battery-electric vehicles. The EPA results are not perfect, but they remain the only common measure for all EVs on the market. There are more…