Electric Cars

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 2, 2021 SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic AI, though, “Skynet” refers to the United Kingdom’s planned Skynet 6A spacecraft – part of a family of military communications satellites that far predate their science fiction
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By Joey Klender Posted on October 29, 2021 Malaysian government officials are petitioning and working toward making electric vehicles exempt from taxes, including import and excise duties, as well as road taxes. During his address to Parliament earlier this week, Malaysian finance minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz cited the reduction of pollutants
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Hello again, and welcome back to another busy installment of the ABC of EVs. We’ve done a few videos in this series on batteries and some of the terminology such as amps, capacity and elements such as Cobalt. Today we’re turning our attention to voltage. Stay tuned for the details!  The basics  So we know from a previous video that electricity is the
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Holley Performance: Check out the Holley High Voltage Experience, an all EV event taking place at Sonoma Raceway this November 13th and 14th. New episodes of Quick Charge
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Volkswagen Group is one of the established carmakers that is really putting some effort into the EV revolution. Much of their future is dependent on the success of the models coming out that are based on the MEB platform. Although the iD.4 may hit the bigger volumes, and the Audi Q4 e-tron may hit the more luxury market…there
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Nissan has confirmed price reductions of both 40kWh and 62kWh versions of its award-winning LEAF electric vehicle, effective from April.  For customers looking to purchase the long-range e+ 62kWh version, the price reduction renews the model’s eligibility for the grant, unlocking a saving of £5,265 compared to purchasing at the previous price without the £2,500
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Adding to its portfolio, the energy provider Octopus has launched a new leasing service – Electric Dreams – offering 100% electric car salary sacrifice schemes, to save employees thousands as they switch to clean green driving. Similar to the popular cycle-to-work scheme, employers can give their staff a highly valuable benefit that is also good
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