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General Motors Seeks Partnerships To Move Its Electric Car Plans Forward

Sep 12, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |No Piston |William H. Fitch |Dan Allard

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!Like many legacy automakers, General Motors has dialed back its electric car plans recently as growth in the customer demand for cars powered by electrons rather than molecules has cooled. But that doesn’t mean it has taken its eye off the ball completely. There are three pieces of news about the company this week that offer hints about how it is approaching the electric car future.
California To Begin Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train Service In San Bernardino

Sep 4, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Jon's Thoughts |Dan Allard |Koenraad Coel

"Although, he might be persuaded to change his mind if more green hydrogen was available and if it didn’t suck up every bit of renewable energy available in the process of making it." Mr Hanley, if you think that's the extent of Michael Barnard's issues with hydrogen, I'd advise you to read his articles on the subject again. This H2-train meanwhile is an incredibly dumb idea, even if green hydrogen was abundantly available.
Cash For Clunkers Program In China Will Boost Electric Car Industry As EU Tariffs Bite

Aug 20, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Jon's Thoughts |Dan Allard |Mike Sarcione

i love the notion of a cash for clunkers program to eliminate ICE from the road. I believe however, that a cash for clunkers that provides incentive to buy a new ICE, even one with better gas mileage, is just unhelpful but is actually counter productive for global warming. A new ICE car not only has a carbon footprint from emissions during production, but also supports automakers to continue investing in, and producing ICE vehicles.
Elon Goes Off Even Further Off The Rails

Aug 7, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Are Tomter Hansen |Dan Allard |Moisés Carvalho Pereira

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!It started when Elon Musk ponied up $44 billion to buy Twitter, which he renamed X. He likes the letter X. He owns SpaceX and xAI.
The Electric Car Revolution Is Still On Track, Says Cox Automotive

May 22, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Geoff Willingham |Dan Allard |Bill Johnson

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!Cox Automotive has just published its 2024 Path To EV Adoption study, which finds the electric car revolution is alive and well, despite a spate of naysayers who have been saying quite the opposite lately. The company says its latest research took place in the first quarter of this year and included a nationally representative sample of 2,557 American vehicle shoppers and 526 dealers.
Goodbye, Snowmobiles - The MoonBike Has Arrived

Jan 21, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Dan Allard |Are Tomter Hansen |Ezra Bisson

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!In 2015, French aeronautical engineer Nicolas Muron was visiting his grandparents, who lived in the French Alps where transportation in the winter often depended on snowmobiles.
$25,000 Electric Cars Getting Further And Further Away

Jan 3, 2024 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Dan Allard |John Donovan

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!The world is screaming, crying, begging for a $25,000 EV but the mainstream automakers are either unable or unwilling to manufacture them. Perhaps they cannot be manufactured at a profit or perhaps the profit margin on affordable electric cars is simply too small to convince companies to build them.
Why Are Electric Cars Today So Huge?

Nov 5, 2023 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Dan Allard |Harry Johnson |Geoff Willingham

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!The UK has a long tradition of small cars, exemplified by the original Mini but including a gaggle of MGs, Triumphs, Humbers, Hillmans, Cortinas, Austins, and the like. Mostly they were small because raw materials were scarce after World War II, but also because Britain taxed cars based on horsepower. Smaller cars were lighter, which means they could make do with less powerful engines.
Decoding The Chaos In The Market For Electric Cars

Oct 27, 2023 | evdriven.com | Steve Hanley |Dan Allard |Geoff Willingham |Murray Gudmundson

All those words and no mention that gas is cheap. It's kind of weird how many people think gas prices have no influence on EV adoption, when anyone who's studied any economics can see that it's obvious. There was a well-done study in California a few years ago that found that the single most important variable for EV adoption was the price of gas. The current President went way out of his way to make gas cheap.