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U.S. Department of the Treasury Releases Final Rules for Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit

U.S. Department of the Treasury Releases Final Rules for Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit

Friday, January 3, 2025

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final rules for the section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act.

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2 hybrids, 1 EV named 2025 Free Press Car, Truck, Utility of the Year

2 hybrids, 1 EV named 2025 Free Press Car, Truck, Utility of the Year

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Strategic planning and topflight engineering pay off as a pair of hybrids and an electric vehicle sweep the 2025 Free Press, car, truck and utility vehicle of the year awards.

Toyota’s decades of work honing its hybrids led to the new Camry and Tacoma, respectively, Free Press Car and Truck of the Year.

General Motors’ painstaking ― and occasionally painful ― project to create a coherent family of electric vehicles paid off with the Chevrolet Equinox EV, Free Press Utility of the Year.

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In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric

In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric

Thursday, January 2, 2025

OSLO, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Nine out of ten new cars sold in Norway last year were powered by battery only, registration data showed on Thursday, placing the country within reach of its target of only adding cars that are electric on the road by 2025.

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Median EV Range in Model Year 2024 Reached a Record High of 283 Miles per Charge

Median EV Range in Model Year 2024 Reached a Record High of 283 Miles per Charge

Monday, December 30, 2024

The median range of all-electric vehicles (EVs) for model year (MY) 2024 reached a record high of 283 miles per charge. That is a gain of 13 miles from the previous model year and more than four times higher than the median range for MY 2011. The highest maximum range for an EV certified by the EPA was the Lucid Air sedan in MY 2022, rated at 520 miles per charge.

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Model Year 2024 Electric Vehicles Offer Consumers a Wide Range in EV Efficiency

Model Year 2024 Electric Vehicles Offer Consumers a Wide Range in EV Efficiency

Monday, December 23, 2024

Consumers looking to choose the most efficient electric vehicle (EV) will find wide ranges in efficiencies depending on the vehicle class. For example, midsized cars ranged from 2.17 mi/kWh to 4.17 mi/kWh, the upper bound of which represents the most efficient EV in model year 2024.

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DOE Invests $51.7 Million to Advance Innovative Transportation Technologies

DOE Invests $51.7 Million to Advance Innovative Transportation Technologies

Friday, December 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $51.7 million investment in transportation innovation projects aimed at expanding affordable, reliable mobility options across America. The 19 projects selected for this funding will focus on advancing a broad range of next generation technologies for the transportation sector. This includes electric vehicle (EV) battery technologies that use domestic, low-cost and abundant materials, improvements in off-road vehicle technologies, advancements in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity, and innovations bolstering...Read More

Toyota seeks robots to sort EV batteries for reuse

Toyota seeks robots to sort EV batteries for reuse

Friday, December 20, 2024

The funding comes from the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the Catalyzing Innovative Research for Circular Use of Long-lived Advanced Rechargeables (CIRCULAR). That project aims to help foster a domestic circular supply chain around EV batteries, according to Toyota.

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U.S. Department of Energy Selects 11 Projects to Advance Domestic Manufacturing of Next-Generation Batteries

U.S. Department of Energy Selects 11 Projects to Advance Domestic Manufacturing of Next-Generation Batteries

Thursday, December 19, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an investment of $25 million across 11 projects to advance materials, processes, machines, and equipment for domestic manufacturing of next-generation batteries. These projects will advance platform technologies upon which battery manufacturing capabilities can be built, enabling flexible, scalable, and highly controllable battery manufacturing processes.

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Study shows Waymo’s robotaxi platform provides significantly higher safety performance than human drivers

Study shows Waymo’s robotaxi platform provides significantly higher safety performance than human drivers

Thursday, December 19, 2024

There are still many questions surrounding the plausibility of full-fledged autonomous robotaxi operations around the world, but Waymo, one of the current leaders in the segment, is putting at least one stigma to rest. A new study conducted with the help of reinsurance provider Swiss Re used hundreds of thousands of liability claims to demonstrate that robotaxi vehicles using the Waymo Driver platform deliver significantly higher safety performance than vehicles operated by a human driver.

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