‘Autonomy’ is a new offer in California where TrueCar founder Scott Painter is giving customers Model 3 cars as a service for a monthly flat rate. The new venture has acquired about 100 vehicles from Tesla and has ambitious plans for expansion.
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Calstart have received $13 million from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to “jump-start” a high-power charging corridor for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks in California.
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After false claims that dead electric cars caused a traffic jam after a snowstorm in California, a fact check showed that the traffic jam was due to other reasons, including regular congestion and a blocked road.
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US start-up Nuro has unveiled the third generation of its self-driving electric vehicle, which the company says is now ready for series production. Nuro is cooperating with BYD North America to produce the electric delivery vehicles.
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Nikola has delivered the first units of its Nikola Tre battery-electric truck in the USA. The vehicles went to logistics provider Total Transportation Services (TSSI), which serves the California Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has had a few problems with its rules after an examiner failed a young driver doing his exam in a Tesla because of the car’s regenerative braking system.
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Volkswagen’s US subsidiary Electrify America has now equipped more than 140 fast-charging sites with stationary energy storage systems, over 90 of them in California. These batteries have a capacity of over 30 megawatts.
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A number of national, regional, state and city governments in the US, Canada, Mexico and the UK have made a commitment to convert their fleets to zero-emission vehicles by 2040. This involves a total of 121,355 vehicles, almost a third of which are medium- or heavy-duty vehicles.
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After California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $3.9 billion investment package for e-mobility projects this autumn, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first tranche of $1.5 billion. The most considerable sums were earmarked for commercial electric vehicles and EV rebates.
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EVCS has turned to Tritium to expand the EV charging network along the US West Coast. EVCS will purchase over 400 Tritium fast-chargers to add to its more than 100 Tritium charger deployment.
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a three-year $1.4 billion plan so the state can achieve its 2025 electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refuelling goals.
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Canoo is moving up the planned US production start in Oklahoma. Instead of 2023, production is to begin before the fourth quarter of 2022. In Europe, Canoo plans to have its debut model built at the Dutch production plant VDL NedCar as early as 2022.
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Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America has opened one of its largest fast-charging parks to date. The charging station is located in Santa Clara, California, and hosts 14 HPC piles with outputs of between 150 and 350 kW under solar canopies.
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The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6mn grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest EV fleet charging systems in the US. The funding comes after the agency had announced to transition its entire fleet to electric in time for the Summer Olympics in 2028.
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The new startup Gridtractor just launched in California to develop charging technology and energy management services for electric tractors and heavy farm equipment. In concrete terms, Gridtractor will help farmers integrate electric charging and V2G technology into their operations through a new SaaS model.
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Hertz will provide 50,000 of the 100,000 electric cars ordered from Tesla to Uber drivers in the United States. Starting on 1 November, drivers can rent Teslas from Hertz through the new program in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C., so the company.
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Lucid Motors will begin deliveries of its debut Air model at an event in California on 30 October. The first reservation holders of the ‘Dream Edition’ of the Lucid Air have been invited to take delivery of their vehicles there.
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The Israeli battery developer StoreDot has announced a global innovation centre in the USA to accelerate the development of solid-state batteries. It is to be built in California, but StoreDot has not yet named an exact location.
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New Flyer announced two new orders from California. San Diego will see twelve electric buses going into service while Culver City ordered six e-buses from the NFI subsidiary.
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In California, Momentum Dynamics and Solano Transportation Authority (STA) plan to deploy 300kW automatic wireless fast-charging infrastructure along a bus transit corridor.
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The US start-up Electric Last Mile Solutions, which specialises in commercial electric utility vehicles, has signed a battery supply contract with CATL. In the future, CATL could also manufacture these cells locally in the US.
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In the USA, Californian battery developer OneD Battery Sciences is now building a first pilot production facility in Moses Lake in Washington State. OneD has designed its own manufacturing process for building silicon graphite anodes for use in electric vehicle batteries.
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Californian Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a ban for ‘small off-road engines’ (SORE) primarily used in gas-powered lawn equipment. The measure also includes generators and emergency response equipment and other “assorted categories”, but also allows some leeway with the regulations based on what is found to be technologically feasible.
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Canadian company Electra Meccanica has commenced the first commercial deliveries of its single-seat Solo electric vehicle as part of an unveiling event held in Los Angeles, California on 4 October. Electra Meccanica will continue to ramp production with investor and manufacturing partner Zongshen Industrial Group.
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California’s Foothill Transit has ordered 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses from the NFI subsidiary New Flyer. The purchase is supported by Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds and not the first electrification at the transport company.
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Tesla will move its headquarters from Palo Alto in Silicon Valley to Austin in Texas. Elon Musk made the announcement at Tesla’s annual general meeting, which was already held in Texas.
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In the USA, Blink Mobility has announced the expansion of its BlueLA electric car-sharing program serving Los Angeles with 300 street side EV charging stations and an increase the car-sharing EV fleet.
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Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai will apparently produce its 300,000th electric car this year. The upcoming annual general meeting of the Californian electric car manufacturer is also to take place at the production facility under construction in Texas. The date: 7 October.
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The new battery material company Lyten from Silicon Valley presents a lithium-sulphur battery platform for electric vehicles. With this, a gravimetric energy density of 900 Wh/kg is to be achieved. Lyten expects the start of production and market availability in 2025/26.
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The Californian electric car start-up Mullen Technologies announces an agreement with the German drive specialist Hofer Powertrain to develop and produce electric drives for its vehicles. Mullen also announces further models.
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