Smart and Sustainable Electric Mobility
Last week BYD launched its fifth generation PHEV technology – DM-i 5.0. Since then there has been a lot of controversy over the three central claims of 46.06% thermal efficiency, 2.9 l/100 km fuel consumption and 2,100 km range. However a number of tests have shown that the claims are not unreasonable, the most recent […]
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Chinese brands were mostly up or flat in Germany in May, except Nio, which was 35% down from the previous month, BYD was up 10%, while MG and Polestar rose more than 100%.
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New York City's iconic fleet of taxis once included some EVs—but you have to look back more than a century to find them. As National Geographic explains in a recent article, electric taxis had a brief moment of popularity in the city in the 1890s. The fleet quickly grew from a dozen vehicles in 1897 to over 100 by 1899. It's an important... 
Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis are pausing work on two EV battery plants and may be looking to LFP battery cells to lower costs, reports Bloomberg. Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a battery supplier for the two automakers with plans to open three new battery plants in Europe at a cost of 7.6 billion euros (approximately $8.2 billion at current... Chinese Li Auto lowers the annual sales goal for 2024 from 800,000 to just 480,000 units. What are the reasons for a 40% cut?
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The BYD Song Plus DM-i is set to gain the fifth generation PHEV powertrain and will have better range and fuel economy.
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BYD delivered 5,000 Qin L cars in three days and demand is very high. Showrooms had a busy weekend with interest in the car.
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A recently surfaced patent application from Ford envisions a new type of EV battery swapping system. EV battery swapping generally involves removing a depleted battery pack from underneath the vehicle and sliding in a fully charged one. But in this patent application, the automaker discusses drive-up docking stations that would use a vehicle's own... 
The Biden administration funded a $7.5 billion national EV charging network as part of the 2021 infrastructure law, but despite the investment new charging stations are rolling out at a slow pace, reports Automotive News. The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program calls for 500,000 charging stations nationwide, but to date only... 
Mercedes-Benz is recalling 14,912 EVs in the U.S. to address a battery management system software issue that could cause a loss of drive power. The recalled vehicles include all versions of the EQS and EQE sedans, as well as the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, from model years 2023 to 2025, depending on the variant. These vehicles may have battery management... 