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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! 75 members of the Climate Mayors organization and Electrification Coalition urge President Biden to protect public health, address the climate crisis, and align with the heavy-duty vehicle industry’s commitment to transition to zero-emission vehicles Today, 75 members of Climate Mayors sent a letter urging the Biden Administration to finalize the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) strongest proposed rule for the GHG Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles — Phase 3 rule (HDV rule). Climate Mayors across the US are already making innovative strides to decarbonize the…

Is Ford shifting its electric vehicle efforts away from large EVs like the F-150 Lightning, and focusing on translating the ethos of the Model T into the EV era? Taken at face value, remarks from Ford CEO Jim Farley made Tuesday suggest that may be the case. During the company’s Q4 2023 earnings, Farley and top executives summed that the automaker plans to shift the launch timing on some of its Gen 2 electric vehicles, with more attention paid to the cost and efficiency of its EVs—given, as was mentioned multiple times, a “new market reality.” The company revealed it’s…

A small team within Ford has spent the last two years developing a low-cost platform for smaller electric vehicles, CEO Jim Farley said on Tuesday.  “We made a bet in silence two years ago,” Farley told investors during the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call, describing the creation of a “super-talented skunkworks team” that operated outside of the “Ford mothership.” Get Fully Charged Affordability is a sore spot in the EV transition Inexpensive, long-range EVs are tough to come by, and that’s bad news for getting mainstream buyers to embrace electrification. Some automakers are working on cheaper upcoming models.  “They’ve…

Porsche appears to be keeping all that’s great about its leading-edge Taycan electric sports car, while teasing out more of the numbers that matter: range, efficiency, and acceleration.  The 2025 Porsche Taycan starts with a larger battery pack. Versions with the Performance Battery Plus now have a gross capacity of 105 kwh—up from 93 kwh. Porsche hasn’t yet said what this gains in terms of official EPA range ratings, but given all the efficiency-minded upgrades that accompany the decision it’s expected to be far greater than the pack’s 13% gain in capacity. Outgoing Taycan models span up to an EPA-rated…

The BMW i5 is the all-electric version of the world-famous 5 Series sedan, and now–for the first time–there’s also a battery-powered version of the 5 Series wagon. Plus, the German company is offering a plug-in hybrid version of said wagon both in rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive guises. Bet let me get to the bad stuff first. Neither the BMW i5 Touring nor the 5 Series Touring plug-in hybrid is coming to the United States, with a previous press release shredding Americans’ dreams of ever getting their hands on the electrified wagons with the following sentence: “The unique combination of…

Performance was never the Porsche Taycan’s problem. It is a Porsche, after all, and that’s kind of what they do there. Instead, the German automaker’s first all-electric effort never blew anyone way with its range. Granted, it was always positioned as a performance car first and foremost, and even something like a 911 Turbo S won’t get amazing fuel economy. But Porsche says many of its more than 150,000 Taycan customers to date wanted to go the distance and spend less time charging, so that’s what engineers wanted to deliver with an extensive 2025 model year update. Meet the 2025…

Chinese EV leader BYD is launching its new in-house smart driving tech next month. According to local reports, the advanced ADAS feature will roll out by the end of March. BYD is launching its own smart driving tech A report from LatePost (via CnEVPost) Monday claimed the first BYD city pilot assist driving feature will be available on March 30. BYD’s Denza N7 SUV will be the first of the auto giant’s 20+ lineup to receive the upgrade. Citing sources close to the matter, the report says major cities like Shenzen (BYD’s headquarters) will be the first to see the…

No EV owner can escape battery degradation. But drivers of battery-powered cars can take steps to reduce the rate at which the high-voltage battery pack loses its energy-storage capacity so that the driving range stays as close as possible to the original figure five or 10 years down the road. The issue of battery degradation is well documented and we have several articles about what owners can do to minimize its effects, but this time we get a very nice rundown of what actually happens inside the battery when it loses capacity from none other than the man behind the…

Rivian has set March 7 as the date for its next big reveal. Kia recalls some of its EVs over an issue that’s definitely not of the over-the-air type. And does an all-night diner like Waffle House make sense for EV charging? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  On March 7, Rivian will reveal its mass-market R2—even though it’s not due to arrive to customers until 2026. Will it stoke some new interest in the electric truck brand and be its “Model 3 moment?” The Biden administration’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program tends to favor gas stations…

A small number of 2023-2024 Kia Niro EV and 2023 Kia EV6 electric vehicles are being recalled for an issue that most definitely can’t be remedied with an over-the-air update.  In affected vehicles, Kia explains, one of the driveshafts may have been improperly heat-treated, potentially allowing it to break under load. That would result in the sudden loss of drive power.  Kia has narrowed down the number of potentially affected U.S. vehicles to 1,243, including certain 2023-2024 Kia Niro EV models made from June 27 through July 13, 2023, and 2023 Kia EV6 models made from January 26 through April…