A lot goes into the building of any vehicle these days. Hyundai provides us with a peek into the process of manufacturing a modern electric vehicle, specifically the new Ioniq 5.
Day: October 21, 2021 (Page 1 of 3)
During the Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings Call this week, Martin Viecha, Senior Director of Investor Relations at Tesla acknowledged that “Supercharger wait times have become untenable at some locations.”
Zach Kirkhorn, the company’s Chief Financial Officer responded »
Yeah. And on the Supercharger side, the supercharging team monitors congestion and plans expansion to ensure customer experience with minimal wait times alongside the growth in our vehicle fleet. While we certainly have work to do in expanding capacity in some congested areas, average congestion on the network has decreased over the past 18 months. Nonetheless, we’re not standing still.
We are executing accelerating expansion plans globally. The network has doubled in the last 18 months, and we are planning to triple it over the next two years. And even so on an individual-site basis to combat existing congestion more quickly where it is isolated and problematic, we expedite local relief sites, deploy mobile Superchargers, and we try to introduce pricing strategies that encourage more off-peak usage to avoid the waiting.
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Electrify America, and sister company Electrify Canada, are building Electric Vehicle charging networks across North America.
The BMW CE 04 electric motorcycle, introduced earlier this year and shown in the video below, is now available with LED flashing lights at the front and rear, and a siren. The motorcycle has the same power unit and 130km range. The options are limited to the military and police.
The BMW CE 04 is manufactured at the BMW Motorrad plant in Berlin.
Video follows.
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UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers’ and business leaders’ approach to scaling the low carbon fuel
The UN has warned policymakers to beware “vested” fossil fuel interests when drawing up plans to deploy hydrogen fuel to help decarbonise various industries, arguing that it remains unclear whether ‘blue’ hydrogen produced using fossil gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology can be made compatible with global climate goals.
In a set of Hydrogen Principles designed to establish best practice on hydrogen for government and businesses, the green NGOs, experts, and and energy policy specialists that form the UN Marrakesh Partnership warned that ‘green’ hydrogen produced using clean power, electrolysis, and water is the only hydrogen production pathway “strictly aligned” with a “reliably 1.5C energy sector pathway”.
The 2022 Audi e-tron RS GT is putting down 590 horsepower and 612 lb-ft of torque. The range is rated at 373km.
But it’s out of the range of most people. It starts at CDN$179,000. The one being reviewed goes for CDN$194,535.
The performance places the 2022 Audi e-tron RS GT in the same category as the Porsche Taycan Turbo and Telsa Model S Plaid.
Video follows.
While we wait for Volvo’s promised electric onslaught of mid-size and compact electric sedans and crossovers, the Swedes have give us a sample of what is to come with the sub-compact XC40.
The Volvo XC40 is smaller than the Ford Mustang Mach E and the Tesla Model Y. It’s about the size of an Audi Q3 or Mercedes GLA, with 402 horsepower.
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