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Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity for New All-Electric Vehicles Sold in the United States Reached a Record High in 2019

Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity for New All-Electric Vehicles Sold in the United States Reached a Record High in 2019

Monday, September 14, 2020

With a 1% increase in sales and increasing battery pack size, all-electric vehicles (EVs) captured a record amount of total plug-in vehicle battery capacity sold in 2019, 17.4 gigawatt-hours. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) accounted for a smaller portion of total plug-in vehicle battery capacity due to their lower sales volumes and because they require smaller battery packs than EVs, since they have gasoline-powered engines to extend total vehicle range. PHEV sales decreased 32% from 2018 to 2019, about the same as the decrease in PHEV battery capacity. Calendar year 2018 was the...Read More

General Motors takes 11% stake in Nikola to team up on electric truck

General Motors takes 11% stake in Nikola to team up on electric truck

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

New York (CNN)General Motors and Nikola are teaming up to work on the Nikola Badger, a fully electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric pickup truck.

The partnership gives General Motors (GM) an 11% stake in the startup, receiving $2 billion in equity, the companies said in a news release. GM will also get the right to nominate one director to Nikola's board.

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How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs

How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Saul Griffith knows the US energy system better than just about anyone on this planet. He’s an inventor, a MacArthur genius fellow, and the founder and CEO of Otherlab, where his team was contracted by the Department of Energy to track and visualize the entirety of America’s energy flows. I had Griffith on The Ezra Klein Show last year for our climate series to lay out what it would look like for America to decarbonize. It was an awesome episode, but it was just a start.

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Waymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas

Waymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Texas will see more of Waymo in the months and years to come. On Tuesday, Alphabet's self-driving car division said it's officially ready to deploy its autonomous trucks in the Lone Star state.

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Electric Busmaker Proterra Unveils Battery Pack For Heavy-Duty Commercial Trucks

Electric Busmaker Proterra Unveils Battery Pack For Heavy-Duty Commercial Trucks

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Proterra, a Burlingame, California-based manufacturer of electric buses and battery packs for transportation, has developed a new battery pack that can be customized for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

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Lucid Motors boasts it will have ‘the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered’

Lucid Motors boasts it will have ‘the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered’

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Lucid Motors announced that its forthcoming all-electric sedan, the Lucid Air, will be the “fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered.” The company claims the Air will have the capability to charge at rates of up to 20 miles per minute — which translates to 300 miles in about 20 minutes.

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Bustech selects Proterra as battery technology supplier for new electric transit bus in Australia

Bustech selects Proterra as battery technology supplier for new electric transit bus in Australia

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Australia-based Bustech and Proterra announced a new collaboration to manufacture Bustech’s all-electric ZDi 12.5-meter transit bus utilizing Proterra’s battery technology platform.

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Electric vehicle charge network ChargePoint bags $127 million from investors

Electric vehicle charge network ChargePoint bags $127 million from investors

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

(Reuters) - ChargePoint, one of the world’s oldest and largest electric vehicle charging networks, has closed on a $127 million funding round, much of it from existing investors, the company said on Wednesday.

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Plug it in: Electric car charging station numbers are rising

Plug it in: Electric car charging station numbers are rising

Friday, July 31, 2020

DETROIT (AP) — When the electric car revolution arrives, will there be enough places to plug in?

There are now 26,000 electric vehicle charging stations open to the public in the U.S., with more than 84,000 plugs.

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New York to invest $750 million to expand electric-vehicle infrastructure

New York to invest $750 million to expand electric-vehicle infrastructure

Thursday, July 16, 2020

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced an investment program that would allocate $750 million to build charging stations and other electric-vehicle infrastructure as part of the state’s long-term goal to reduce emissions.

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