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GM And Honda Partner To Develop EVs
GM and Honda form a partnership to develop and build EVs.
Outsource to Detroit: GM Workers to Build Hondas Under EV Agreement - The Truth About Cars -
What Drives Us Podcast - #363 Don’t Take Stock Advice from the Guy Who Drinks Gasoline
No, it is not safe to drink gasoline. This week we discuss the Rawlinson-Motor Trend interview, gas prices and futures and Patrick explains what a future is, the upcoming Evoltis and much more.
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Study shows EV's are cleaner than ICE's
Just read this article showing that EV emissions depending on where they are manufactured and where they are operated are lower to much lower than ICE vehicles.
New Study Reveals Just How Much Cleaner EVs Are -
Prius Prime Drain
did anyonw teste how many % of juice does Prime loose over 24hours when parked? In normal weather, not 2 hot, not 2 cold.
Thanx, Roman
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Mercedes-Benz Ending Fuel Cell Car Development
It costs too much. Batteries are the way to go.
Daimler ends hydrogen car development because it's too costly - Electrek -
Samsung Solid State Batteries
Samsung Could Give Toyota Prius Prime Tesla-Like Distance With Its New Battery | Torque News
"Currently, Prius Prime only has a range of 25 miles on "electric-only." That is not that great, to be honest. The thing that solid-state batteries would provide the Prius Prime is a far more energy-dense source of power."
"Solid-state, according to Samsung, could give us 9.65 times better energy output. That means your Prius Prime that only goes 25 miles right now could go 240 miles, respectively."
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Repair Industry Failing to Attract New Talent
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Anti-viral cars
EVs are the perfect anti-viral cars.
You exit your house and get in the car, drive around anywhere you need to go--such as grocery store or take out food and return. You plug it in for 10 or 20 minutes and you are already back to full charge and ready for the next day. No contaminated gas pumps to mess with and no maintenance needed for the next 12-18 months while waiting for a vaccine to come out.
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Anybody Bought a Car Lately?
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Toyota BEVs
Source: Toyota/Lexus Introduce Three New BEVs In China
New all-electric models will be equipped with a 54.3 kWh battery.
According to the latest news, this month Toyota and Lexus will introduce three all-electric cars in China:
Lexus UX 300e
Toyota C-HR BEV
Toyota IZOA BEV
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Both models are simply electric versions of the C-HR/IZOA compact crossover/SUV, built on the TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform. Equipped with a 54.3 kWh battery, each should be good for about 400 km (250 miles) of NEDC range, but in the real world, we do not expect more than 300 km (186 miles).
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The Tesla, 2020 Standard Range Plus Model 3 has an EPA range of 250 miles (286 mi NEDC) on a 50 kWh (55 kWh total) battery. I've driven 206 miles from Huntsville to Memphis regularly with a 30 mile reserve in our 2019 Std Rng Plus Model 3, 240 mile EPA range.
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A seller has a tanker full of crude
and if you sign a contract to accept delivery next month, the seller will have to pay you $10 a barrel. Yes, that is what it has come to, the seller pays the buyer!
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What Drives Us Podcast - #362 You Bought It But It’s Not Really Yours.mp4
On this week’s the panel discuss, electric RVs, what does it mean when you own something but the company that made the product controls it, Ford PHEV truck rumors and more.
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In COVID-19 crisis, electric auto startups race to stay on track
COVID-19 has hit the U.S. auto industry hard, but the most precarious companies might be the handful of electric auto startups on the cusp of key vehicle launches.
Rivian, Lordstown Motors, Lucid, Bollinger Motors, Faraday Future, and Fisker are leading a historic wave of startups that, inspired by the success of Silicon Valley’s Tesla, see a new future of battery-powered sedans and trucks. But with their first products in the pipeline, the coronavirus threatens the capital flows and customer base they need to survive.
Article at : Henry Payne » In COVID-19 crisis, electric auto startups race to stay on track -
Mileage calculator chart
I found an interesting mileage calculator the other day on the Ecomodder.com website.
Aerodynamic & rolling resistance, power & MPG calculator - EcoModder.com
You enter a number of parameters that apply to your car and it calculates a table of mileages and other parameters based on different vehicle speeds.
I have obtained the parameters for my Prius V and they are:
Total Weight 3340 for the car + me 205 = 3545
Cd = .29
Rolling resistance = (this varies with tires and driveline losses from .008 to .15) I used .011
Engine efficiency = 41%
Temperature = 68 deg
Frontal area = 23 ft cu
I calculated the frontal area from sketchandcalc.com website app.
You take a picture of your vehicle, import it into this app. You use a pen tool to draw the outline to form a closed irregular shape. I included in the picture a pizza box that was 10.5" square which was also in the frame with the car to calibrate the scaling...
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