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Electric Buses Rule Down Under

Oct 18, 2024 | evdriven.com | David Waterworth |Jon's Thoughts |Chris Drongers |Mark Tang

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!The 2024 National Bus and Coach Show was held in Brisbane last month featuring a vast array of buses in all sizes and drivetrains. Of course, CleanTechnica’s readers are mainly interested in battery electric vehicles, and so we will be focussing on those. Presently, only about 0.2% of buses on Australian roads are battery electric. That is about to change.
US Gas Car Sales Down 1% in Q2, Down 14% Compared To Q2 2019

Sep 29, 2024 | evdriven.com | Zachary Shahan |Matt Fulkerson |Croatia Tesla |Chris Drongers

As long as overall sales of all cars (any propulsion system) is going down but pure electrics are going up, it's the best. see moreMany of the charts show the tiny share of EVs in the US. We need to make more progress! But also we need a carbon-dumping-into-the-atmosphere fee! Land transportation is just 1/6 of the problem, so I've heard!see moreOverall, car market is down. Hard times. Supply chain disruption, inflation and interesest rate hike.
UK Speeds Up ICE Vehicle Sales Ban (Again)

Aug 12, 2024 | evdriven.com | Zachary Shahan |Geoff Willingham |Chris Drongers |Mark Fawke

These bans (ICE cars, coal use, whatever) are more like predictions. They don't really want to do any heavy lifting to get it done. see moreThe manufacturers can read the writing on the wall, even if conservatives canNOT. see moreWhat about the ZEV mandate and the ~£15k per car fine for missing them? It's 22% this year and increases to 28% in 2025, and 33% in 2026. By 2027, the targeted percentage will climb to 38%, then 52% in 2028, 66% in 2029 and then 80% in 2030.
How Anti-EV FUD Spreads So Easily: A Dissection

Jun 30, 2024 | evdriven.com | Jennifer Sensiba |Zachary Shahan |Chris Drongers |Curt Lynn

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!I’ve almost entirely stopped using Facebook. I get on there maybe twice a week to see if there are any interesting things from friends and family and then get back off. Why?
Tariffs Aren't Enough To Save U.S. Manufacturers From Chinese EVs

Mar 13, 2024 | evdriven.com | Jennifer Sensiba |Maarten Vinkhuyzen |Chris Drongers |Are Tomter Hansen

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!Recently, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio started pushing for more tariffs. Why? Because cheaper Chinese electric cars have a pretty good chance of destroying vehicle manufacturing in the United States. While this is a reasonable argument to make, tariffs alone would only delay the inevitable, so more must be done if the goal is to protect the U.S. automotive industry.
Redwood Materials Building Huge Cathode Factory In USA

Jan 27, 2024 | evdriven.com | Zachary Shahan |John Donovan |Chris Drongers |d’M Ian-ya

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!USA has not been the home of much of the world’s EV battery or battery component production. That has been dominated by China. The Inflation Reduction Act is changing that. Subsidies for mining EV battery minerals, subsidies for processing those minerals, subsidies for battery cell production, and subsidies for battery pack production are combining to focus a lot of battery production in the United States.
US BEV Sales Up 143% Over Q3 2021

Dec 15, 2023 | evdriven.com | Zachary Shahan |Maarten Vinkhuyzen |Margie Lynch-Freshner |Chris Drongers

We have all seen the data. When people are asked if their next car will be Electric, the percentage is always a lot higher than current sales %age. As long as Auto Makers keep pumping out new Models at not too exorbitant prices, then these numbers are only going up. see moreExcellent point!! That's one I need to remember and use!see moreAlso, to get the people who don't care about EVs or the environment, we need more chargers.
BYD profits surge, as US legacy car makers drown in losses from EVs

Oct 31, 2023 | evdriven.com | Patrick Halliday |Philip V. Grice |Peter Campbell |Chris Drongers

BYD is reaping the rewards from over a decade of work to get here. Ford and GM will have to pay to catch up for a good few years. see moreIt may be hard to believe but once Britain was the worlds leader in car manufacturing. Today they build foreign cars for domestic consumption. By the end of the decade Ford and GM will be in a similar position. Heck, Stellantis is already selling new Jeeps in the US based upon FIAT platforms. MY, how the mighty have fallen.