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Located in Methuen, Massachusetts, Factorial opens their production facility for Solid-State Batteries with massive expansion capabilities.
They say if you can give a way to convert an auto to the way one wants it for the future, they will come. Has ORBIS ELECTRIC found the holy grail of EV for EVERYONE?
U.S. EV sales have set another record, but how much growth is it and who is leading among all auto companies?
Starting January 1, 2024 Consumers can choose to transfer their new clean vehicle credit of up to $7,500 or used clean vehicle credit of up to $4,000 to the car dealer effectively lowering the vehicles purchase price, will this jump start the EV Revolution of sales?
What does a company do when so many others have changed their approach to a charging port standard, Join the Party!
Honda and Acura signed on to use the GM Ultium platform and will have their first SUVs out soon, which do you like?
Wanting to attract EV owners, Hilton hotels has announced that 20,000 Tesla NACS chargers will be installed at the Hilton Hotels in North America, 2,000 locations across Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
EA or Electrify America has announced they will add NACS connectors to their North America Charging stations.
ProLogium claims it's LLCB doubles energy density and releases to European Auto companies testing samples.
The Japanese government recognizing that Japan has less than 10% of the global battery cell market, will fund Toyota R&D to help capture market share.
The battle will not go away of ICE versus EV, but the FUD (FEAR, UNCERTANTY, & DOUBT) is getting Deep. What is coming and what should you know?
The EV Revolution that many people are excited about will not happen till better batteries, forever batteries are used according to the media such as Investorplace.com, Bloomberg, etc., is this right?
LG Innotek has produced the first wireless BMS system for the automotive industry allowing gains in EV range and management.
A new RV trailer is here developed by Lightship RV, is it the answer to preserving EV and ICE towing range?
Scout Motors Inc. has returned to the U.S. with SUV and pickup truck EVs to be built in North Carolina.
Kia, South Korea automaker is slated to start production of the EV9 full size EV after agreement was reached with the Korean Metal Workers Union.
Where artistic brilliance meets cutting-edge German technology, this is the Wiesmann Project Thunderball luxury roadster!
Air or Land, IONBLOX is pushing the limits of traditional battery storage technology for the next generation of fossil-free mobility.
Hertz and GM have announced a 175,000 EV purchase agreement over 5 years for Hertz U.S. rental sites.
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Mazda unveils the Iconic SP concept
At the 2023 Tokyo auto show, Mazda unveiled a sports car concept. Originally named Vision Study Model, the Iconic SP, utilizes an interesting engine combination. This hybrid-rotary-powered sports car uses the twin-rotor rotary engine as a generator to recharge the batteries. Iconic SP is around 10 inches longer than Mazda’s compact Miata. Although Mazda hasn't disclosed the number of electric motors, they are the main propulsion system. As a range-extending EV, that rotary engine doesn’t dr
MazdaMazda CX-70 Delayed Until 2024
Since the introduction of the Mazda CX-90, a smaller SUV has been in the pipeline. The CX-70 was supposed to go on sale at the end of this year but has been delayed until 2024. Mazda is aiming to offer more SUVs for American customers. This means that the CX-70 will compete alongside the CX-90 is the mid-size SUV segment. Europe already has the CX-60, and Mazda said the CX-70 is essentially the same with a wider body. CX-70 will have a shorter wheelbase than the CX-90 due to it being a tw
MazdaEPA Has Announced the Range for the 2024 Kia EV9
The EPA has announced the various electric ranges of the Kia EV9. This new crossover SUV is Kia's flagship SUV, with various battery sizes and ranges. Kia gave the EV9 five trim levels along with two battery sizes. At the bottom of the EV9 lineup is the $56,000 Light rear-wheel-drive Light trim level. An EV9 Light utilizes a 76.1-kWh battery, good for 215 horsepower/160 kW and 258 ft-lb /339 Nm. The range for the Light rear-wheel-drive is 230 miles, or about 3.0 miles/kWh. The Light trim le
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By trinacriabob · Posted
I've got this Toyota Camry they assigned to me. Wow ... this has the second highest mileage of any vehicle I've ever been assigned - 56,000 miles! That's over 9 transcontinental U.S. round trips. The only other car that beat it was in Italy when I was given a Seat Leon wagon with 105,000 km (which is over 60,000 miles). That one looked kind of mangy and they didn't seem to care about all the scratches and all that, including the front bumper panel that had separated on one side and was provisionally fastened together. I asked her if this Seat Leon wagon could get me from Ancona to Bari for the one-way drop (basically most of the length of the Adriatic side) and she said that it would. It did. As for this Camry, it's a rough one. The engine is noisy and, unlike ones I've been put in that have had about 20,000 miles where the 8-speed automatic had some of the best shift quality I've experienced, this Camry revs out to the next shift point and then there's what seems like a pause after that shift. It reminds me of some Smart cars and Opel Corsa automatics I've rented across the pond ... some 20 years ago. I don't believe in these new long intervals for transmission service. I think people need to be routinely servicing their geared automatic transmission every 30,000 to 40,000 miles. It's a basic LE and has none of the bells and whistles, like any of the traffic and parking sensors. It also has that nasty diagonal sweep over the cubby hole for one's electronics. -
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Chevrolet Bolt gets lower-cost LFP batteries for next gen - Autoblog QUOTE: CEO Mary Barra confirmed the hatchback's return, telling analysts, "I know there has been some speculation in the market as to why we are developing a new Bolt EV. Our strategy is to build on the tremendous equity we have in the brand and to do it as efficiently as possible." The efficiency bit is the key phrase in that sentence, Barra explaining that GM can get the new Bolt to market quicker than a vehicle program from scratch while " saving billions in capital and engineering expenses." A big part of that savings comes from the plan to use lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, which are markedly less expensive than the lithium-ion pack in the current car and the nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum (NCMA) chemistry in GM's Ultium packs. Barra explained, "This will be our first deployment in North America of LFP technology in the Ultium platform." General Motors Company (GM) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha QUOTE: The team is optimizing the software strategy and fine-tuning the plans for our new vehicles to help make sure we executive with the highest possible quality and customer experience, while positioning the company to drive significant revenue growth from subscriptions in the future. To give the team time to do this, we'll move out the launches of three products, the Chevrolet Equinox EV, the Silverado EV RST, and the GMC Sierra EV Denali, each by only a few months. This will ensure their success. We believe our products will succeed, and the costs are coming out quickly. For example, our cost per cell has already decreased 45% over the last 12 months as production volume in Ohio has ramped up. We also expect to achieve significant margin improvement on our battery electric trucks through engineering efficiency and improvement, supplier cost, and reducing order complexity, buildable combinations, and manufacturing. However, by leveraging the best attributes of today's Bolt EUV as well as Ultium,, our latest software, and NACS, we will deliver an even better driving, charging, and ownership experience with a vehicle we know customers love. In the process, we are saving billions in capital and engineering expenses, delivering a significantly cost improved battery pack using purchased LFP cells. We are getting to market at least two years faster and our unit cost will be substantially lower. This is will be our first deployment in North America of LFP technology in the Ultium platform. -
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Very interesting read, another auto hit the pedestrian that was thrown under the Cruise self driving taxi. GM’s Barra Disappointed by EV Output but Restates Electric Plans (autoweek.com)
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