When consumers slowed their purchases of all-electric vehicles (EVs), they turned to hybrids that run mainly on gas but also draw some power from a battery pack.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
Ford Motor has dumped its plan to produce a three-row, all-electric SUV, citing an overcrowded market and consumers’ reluctance to pay premium prices for electric vehicles (EVs).
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
Despite a 32-percent plunge in sales in China, Honda Motor reported an 8.7-percent year-on-year gain in profits in its fiscal first quarter.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
After five years of mapping a road to an all-electric future, designing electric vehicles (EVs) and retooling factories to make them, and investing billions of dollars along the way, U.S. car companies are hitting the brakes.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
An abrupt slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales cut battery giant LG Energy’s profit by 58 percent, year on year, in this year’s second quarter, the company reported last week.
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EV BREAKDOWNS AND DIRTY PFAS TECH: THE LATEST IN “EV GO FU”
Problems with core Electric Vehicle lithium battery technology lie at the heart of two recent stories underscoring our 2024 Top Trend, “EV GO FU.”
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU: TOYOTA GOES FULL RETRO, RE-ENGINEERS PISTON ENGINE
Alone among major auto companies, Toyota still refuses to fully commit its future to all-electric mobility. Instead, it has introduced a redesigned piston engine for gas-electric hybrid vehicles.
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AI DESIGNS EV MAGNET THAT NEEDS NO RARE EARTH MINERALS
Lithium isn’t the only metal in short supply holding up the transition to cheaper electric vehicles (EVs). EVs’ motors are powered by magnets that need rare earth minerals, mostly neodymium or samarium but also may require terbium and dysprosium.
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CARBON WAR REBELLION: THE LATEST
The war on hydrocarbon energy is meeting with greater resistance, despite attempts by authorities to cast a supposed “green energy transition” as inevitable.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU: REGISTRATIONS OF CHINESE EVS IN EUROPE JUMP 23 PERCENT
During this year’s first four months, registrations of electric vehicles (EVs) made in China and sold in western Europe and the U.K. increased 23 percent, year on year, to 119,300, Schmidt Automotive Research reported.