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The JV will cater to the ride-hailing market and provide battery swap services for NEVs, CATL said. (Image credit: CATL) CATL, the world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), has upped its bet in the battery swap space with a joint venture with ride-hailing giant Didi. Didi and CATL announced the formal establishment of a joint venture to engage in the battery swap business on January 26 in Ningde, Fujian, where the latter is headquartered, according to an announcement by the battery maker today. Didi chairman and CEO Cheng Wei and CATL chairman and general manager Robin Zeng…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! ORNL and NREL Modeling Finds Installing Geothermal Heat Pumps in About 70% of US Buildings Could Reduce Need for New Long-Distance Transmission Lines by 33% A new analysis from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that, coupled with building envelope improvements, installing geothermal heat pumps in around 70% of U.S. buildings could save as much as 593 terawatt-hours of electricity generation annually and avoid seven gigatons of carbon-equivalent emissions by 2050. Geospatial representation of the percentage changes in annual electricity consumption (left) and carbon emissions…

Apple veteran DJ Novotney is departing the company for a new role at Rivian, according to a report from Bloomberg. Novotney, a vice president of hardware engineering, has spent almost 25 years at Apple and worked across multiple generations of the iPod, the iPhone, the Apple Watch, and more. Novotney is the second Apple executive to leave for Rivian this month. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Jonas Reinke, Apple’s head of product, mobility and auto services, had departed Apple to join Rivian as a VP of product management. Today’s Bloomberg report says that Novotney will become senior vice…

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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The Canadian tar sands, also called oil sands, are a massive site of oil extraction in the province of Alberta. They cover an area larger than England and are one of the biggest industrial projects on the planet. The type of oil in the tar sands is called “bitumen.” which is extremely heavy and difficult to extract. Getting it from deep in underground to the surface can use up massive amounts of water — about what a small city might use on a daily…

Tesla recently released a new update to its Vehicle Safety Report, revealing data for all four quarters of 2023. The voluntarily published quarterly reports include the number of miles driven per accident registered when using Autopilot technology, not using Autopilot technology, and the U.S. average (the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA for calendar year 2022). The data gives us glimpses of how Autopilot improves vehicle safety, but it has some limitations (more on that at the bottom of this post) due to the methodology. For example, Tesla counts all accidents, regardless of the cause, despite the fact…

Which CEO of a global automaker suggested that EVs may never top 30% of the global vehicle market? Which EV from a U.S. automaker became the top-selling vehicle on the planet, electric or not? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 26, 2024. Volkswagen has confirmed that “most” 2023-2024 ID.4 models qualify for the $7,500 EV tax credit, making it the first foreign automaker to get the nod under tightened sourcing rules. Models supplied with batteries from SK On—rather than LG—meet the requirements. It applies to about 80%…

Have you ever been in the mood to drive an electric bus, and then thought to yourself, “the only thing that could make this better is if the bus was shaped like a marsupial”? Yea, me neither. At least not until I stumbled upon this precious specimen of a koala bus. It’s not the first animal-shaped electric bus that has headlined the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column. But it just might be the cutest. And to be fair, I did think it was a mouse until our graphics guy corrected me. But that’s kind of the…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! USA has not been the home of much of the world’s EV battery or battery component production. That has been dominated by China. The Inflation Reduction Act is changing that. Subsidies for mining EV battery minerals, subsidies for processing those minerals, subsidies for battery cell production, and subsidies for battery pack production are combining to focus a lot of battery production in the United States. However, it’s still a small battery production market at the moment and there are gaps in what is produced.…

Tesla has announced a new $500 million project to build a giant Dojo supercomputer cluster at Gigafactory New York in Bufallo. Dojo is a new supercomputer designed from the ground up by Tesla specifically to train AI with videos. The project suffered significant delays, but it seemed to be getting some momentum last year as the first Dojo cluster came online in the summer. However, we also learned that Tesla let go of some of the program’s top leadership last month. Furthermore, CEO Elon Musk described the project during Tesla’s earnings call this week as a “long shot” with a “not…