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Amtrak has replaced a diesel-powered bus on the Pacific Northwest’s Cascades route with its first electric bus. Amtrak, which partnered with the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to roll out its new electric bus, will run it between Seattle and Bellingham, filling the gap between the morning and evening trains on the Cascades route. It uses buses all over the US to run thruway connecting services, which are scheduled to connect with Amtrak trains. Amtrak’s first electric bus is a 45-foot Van Hool CX45e. It has a 660 kWh Proterra lithium-ion battery system and 260 miles of range. It’s owned by coach operator…
It looks like Hyundai is working on a high-performance model to sit next to the new IONIQ 5 N. New spy pictures reveal what looks to be a sporty all-electric Hyundai Kona N. Hyundai Kona Electric N spotted looking sporty Hyundai unveiled its first purely electric high-performance vehicle under its N brand, the IONIQ 5 N, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last month. The release comes nearly a year after Hyundai teased a conceptual electric N model during the end of the launch video for the new IONIQ 6. Hyundai teased racing enthusiasts with several videos to prepare for…
Volkswagen has officially started production of its all-new, all-electric ID.7 sedan at its plant in Emden, Germany, which is also producing the ID.4 model. This is a symbolic start of series production (a small production run was launched in June). The manufacturer already accepts orders in Germany and the first customer deliveries will likely begin this fall. Let’s recall that the Emden plant was recently affected by insufficient demand (for the ID.4), which at the end of June resulted in a two-week-long cancellation of late shifts, extended plant vacations, and a decision to postpone the launch of the third shift…
After a very frustrating period of prolonged load-shedding that saw citizens only having electricity between midnight and 4am, the Zimbabwe government has declared the end of electricity rationing. This follows the completion of two 300MW coal-powered new generation plants. This new capacity is from the recently commissioned units 7 & 8 at Hwange. Before the addition of the 2 new units that were built at a cost of US$1.5 billion, that country’s old coal power plants (Hwange units 1 to 6) had been experiencing frequent breakdowns, meaning that they were never able to reach anywhere close to their installed capacity…
American EV battery plants are under scrutiny ahead of the 2024 election and UAW negotiations. Smart adapters could help Ford tackle fleets’ bidirectional charging needs. And electric convertibles may still arrive, but we run through all the hurdles of why they’re not here yet. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Why can’t you find convertible EVs or electric sports cars in the U.S.? Green Car Reports looked at a few of the reasons why you won’t find a single fully electric drop-top passenger vehicle on the market—and few if any hybrids of any kind offering up an open-air…
A recent Ford patent filing examines using bidirectional charging and an adapter to charge multiple vehicles from the same power source—with potential fleet applications. A Ford patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) July 27, 2023, and originally filed January 26, 2022, details the charging of multiple vehicles by plugging a first vehicle into a charging station conventionally, and using adapters that could connect a vehicle’s charge port to a charging cable to loop in other vehicles. Ford bidirectional charging adapter patent image A coupling and microcontroller in the adapter would allow a vehicle equipped…
With the imminent start of deliveries for the long-awaited Tesla Cybertruck inching closer and closer, it looks like the Austin-based EV maker is ramping up its promotional efforts. A recent video posted by @carlosRdeA on X (formerly known as Twitter) shows a shiny new Cybertruck going through the icy puddles of a glacier in Iceland all while reportedly being filmed from a black Land Rover Discovery that was driving in front with its upper tailgate open. It’s worth noting that while Tesla has an ice-cold relationship with traditional media, giving it the cold shoulder, it has visibly increased its promotional…
Electric vehicles (EVs) promise emissions-free driving wrapped in a veneer of environmental friendliness, but EV detractors are quick to point out their shortcomings — not the least of which being the massive carbon cost of mining the battery metals (lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese) that make up the core of modern li-ion car batteries. This is a sunk cost that companies like Volvo estimate will take tens of thousands of miles driven to get ahead of. But those detractors are missing a critical bit of information: battery recycling. Once those elements are pulled from the ground, they can theoretically be…
A Tesla Cybertruck was spotted on a glacier in Iceland for what appears to be the filming of a promo reel ahead of the vehicle’s launch. The start of Cybertruck deliveries is so close I feel like I can smell it. If Tesla sticks to its latest production timeline for the Cybertruck, we are just weeks away from the start of production and the first deliveries to employees. We have been following closely to determine if that’s possible, and we have had a bunch of good signs lately, including Tesla Cybertrucks coming out of Giga Texas in numbers. Tesla also…
Where are the electric convertibles? It’s once again time for summer cruises and drive-in movies, segueing into the time when crisp autumn air and colorful leafy backroads beckon, when family members enviously ply the auto market, pondering the possibility of a convertible. And to get with the times, that often includes a look at whether that open-air delight might be an EV. Once again there isn’t a single factory-made electric convertible offered in the U.S., and the best option for those who must have one now is likely a specialty conversion shop. Nor is there a single hybrid convertible or…