FREYR Battery is replacing its plan to build two gigafactories with a plan to build a single gigafactory which increases capacity by 150%. The estimated construction cost will be $1.7 billion. “FREYR is increasing the nameplate capacity of Giga Arctic to 29 GWh in response to improving battery supply-demand dynamics, ongoing commercial success, significant progress
Month: July 2022
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A handful of Jaguar and Land Rover stunt cars from the James Bond film “No Time To Die” will be auctioned off by Christie’s in London on September 28, with some of the sales benefiting charity causes. The lots include a Land Rover Defender 110 used during an off-road chase scene. One of 10 Defenders
Key Card is an alternate method of accessing your car if your Phone Key is not available, or if someone else needs temporary access to your Model 3—such as a valet. https://3.tesla.com/model3/design
Who wants a cheap, simple EV that charges itself by the sun? Oh and you also want some moss on the dashboard? Well, you’re in luck. The new, production-ready Sono Sion is finally here. A year on from his visit to Sono HQ in Munich, Jack explains everything that’s changed with this new final version
Honda’s Hot Hatch Gets Hotter This hot hatch is getting hotter, as the 2023 Honda Civic Type R will be the most powerful Civic ever. Honda invited the automotive press to the Hawthorne Jet Center in Southern California in mid-July to pull the sheet off the new Civic Type R. Exciting as the reveal was,
Thanks to ongoing supply chain issues, used car prices are reaching extortionate levels. Particularly in the US, where the “I want it and I want it now” mentality seems most prevalent. And while many of you may think paying $15,000 over MSRP for a used Ford Mustang Mach-E or Volkswagen ID.4 is crazy, someone has
By Johnna Crider Posted on July 30, 2022 Tesla and Drive.ai are top key players in the Intellgent Driving market according to a new Global Intellgent Driving Market report. The report gives an overview of the 2021 growth of Intellgent Driving and how that growth has significant changes from the previous year as our global
Global EV sales are steadily increasing with help from regulators, but that won’t matter if existing gasoline and diesel vehicles aren’t retired quickly, new research argues. “The slow speed of fleet turnover presents a substantial barrier to deep decarbonization,” researchers state in a new book on energy transition (via Axios). Researchers compared emissions policies, like
Joe Manchin is nothing if not unpredictable. He reportedly receives more money from the fossil fuel industry than any other senator, and he’s become a bête noire for fans of EVs and renewable energy. However, his opposition to new transport and energy technology is not absolute—in April, he attended a ribbon-cutting for a battery factory
This isn’t the first time we’ve reported that SONDORS is ready to deliver its Metacycle electric motorcycle to pre-order customers. But to be fair, it’s not the first time the Southern California-based company has said it was ready for deliveries. But now with photos of Metacycles purportedly in SONDORS’ domestic logistics facilities, the first bikes
Littelfuse, a circuit protection specialist, has acquired electromechanical switch company C&K Switches. C&K Switches designs and manufactures switches and interconnect systems for the industrial, transportation, aerospace and datacom markets. “The combination of our companies significantly expands our technologies and capabilities, enabling us to deliver comprehensive solutions offering to our broad customer base, across a wide
Tesla is preparing to launch pictures of its customer in space on SpaceX’s lunar orbiter mission with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea. Back in 2018, Tesla had a referral program to help sell vehicles where owners could share a referral code with new buyers who would receive Supercharging credits. In exchange, referrers would get
The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX concept is a sleek electric sedan with an air-cooled battery pack, 900-volt electrical architecture, and real-world range of well over 600 miles. We drove it this week and found it to be a lot of fun behind the wheel. 2024 Maserati GranTurismo Folgore spy shots – Photo credit: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien A
Be Ready as Trucking Drives Toward a New Road This article may contain affiliate links. Technology has advanced so far in the recent years that more and more companies are investing in developing self-driving trucks. The ultimate goal is automated shipping, where a driverless truck can easily pick up and deliver shipments without any assistance
The Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT and more) reports €132.3 billion ($134.9 billion) in revenues in the first half of 2022, which is 2% more than a year ago. That’s not a bad result, considering how terrible the second quarter was due to the war in Ukraine, the ongoing global semiconductor
By William Johnson Posted on July 29, 2022 Ford is now offering (much more than) an electric police truck with the release of the F-150 Lightning Special Service Vehicle, or SSV, as the brand continues to expand its Ford Pro sub-brand. Yesterday, Ford revealed its new F150 Lightning Pro SSV police truck in pre-production form,
How far weekly does Sono say its Sion solar EV might go without ever charging? Which automaker launched a service aimed at answering questions about EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 29, 2022. This week, we drove the one-and-only efficiency-focused Mercedes-Benz
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