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What Drives Us Podcast - #389 The Mourning After
00:00 Show Start 05:30 New Recycling Factory in NE Indiana 22:00 Ford to Make all-EV e-Transit 30:25 This Week in Tesla 40:00 Massachusetts Votes for Right to Repair 45:25 Shout Outs and Go Home
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Solid-state battery wars
Several companies are claiming that they are near solid-state battery breakthrough. However, QuantumScape is currently the only one with actual data presented. We will see who will eventually win the war.
In any case the current lithium-ion battery technology will be obsolete in about a half decade, as it has many problems—slow charging, capacity loss, fire hazard, low power density, etc. Solid-state batteries will exclusively power the EVs of the very near future.
A Discussion of QuantumScape’s Battery Technology Performance Results
The Leaders in the Race to Build a Better EV Battery - WSJ
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Toyota Fined $180 Million By DOJ For Emissions Reporting Failures
Seems they failed to comply with the Clean Air Act's reporting requirements.
Toyota's greenwashing leads to record $180m fine for emissions lies - Electrek -
GM's New Branch, BrightDrop, For EV Delivery Vans
BrightDrop will sell EV delivery vans and an electric pallet system.
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Over 100 catalytic converters stolen from cars in recent weeks
Though the glory days of Prius may be behind it, the Prius name keeps showing up in the headlines. This particular article is just a short distance north of the San Francisco Bay Area in California (aka: North Bay).
"Tuesday morning’s chase was Sonoma County’s second high-speed police pursuit of suspected catalytic converter thieves in one week. The county has seen a remarkable spate of over 100 stolen catalytic converters in recent weeks — usually from Prius models. Petaluma police had received a report from a nearby neighborhood of vehicle tampering by two men in a small, dark vehicle, McGreevy said. When officers spotted that car and tried to stop it, the vehicle sped off at such a high speed — at least 90 mph, police said — that pursuit was quickly terminated. Moments later, the driver lost control of the car, careening across the oncoming lane and into that tree, 150 yards south of the St. Vincent de Paul Church. In the Honda, police found a reciprocating saw and at least... -
Hyundai & Apple Team Up for New Electric Cars
Reuters news article here.
Brief details: Car may be shown in beta form next year, production of up to 100k units to be available for model year 2024. -
GM Changes Logo For Its Move To EVs
And they launched an EVs for everyone video.
GM updates its logo for 5th time in history for huge electric transition campaign - Electrek -
Fleet fuel efficiency and credits
This was an article about fleet fuel efficiency and credits.
U.S. vehicle fleet fuel efficiency fell in 2019 to 24.9 mpg -- EPA (yahoo.com)
Obviously Tesla is the big winner selling credits followed by Honda then Toyota. The biggest recipients are GM, Ford and Chrysler whose top selling vehicle for all three is their pickup truck.
Fleet fuel efficiency is market driven. With cheap gas, people are buying trucks and bigger SUV's. The efficiency numbers are going to go down despite most new models getting better mileage than their predecessors.
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Toyota Motor North America Reports December 2020, Year-End Sales
Myraid sales info in this recent Toyota Press release. Of interest to me is Prius numbers (Toyota does not break down by Prius regular and Prime) and RAV4 Prime numbers.
Toyota Motor North America Reports December 2020, Year-End Sales - Toyota USA Newsroom -
Toyota is the cleanest car!
No one likes driving a dirty car - Toyota has solved that problem!
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Roof comes off during washing?
Ford strikes out at Tesla!
“While the buyers of some electric vehicles have had to accept certain flaws, Palmer says that this isn’t acceptable for Ford. “The doors fit properly, the plastics and other materials color-match, the bumpers don’t fall off, the roof doesn’t come off when you wash it, the door handles don’t get stuck in cold weather. ...” -
We Will Crush You!
According to the articles, Toyota's going to crush Tesla with its solid state batteries. Ok then.
Toyota's Solid-State Battery Will Crush Tesla Li-Ion Updates | Torque News
Toyota's Solid-State Battery Will Crush Tesla Li-Ion Updates - Online EV -
Lexus Panned in funny/fake SNL Commercial
Maybe it's just me, but yeah that's what I call humor;
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FCEVs still not as hot as Tesla
Glad no one was hurt. Hope this is not a new trend and Tesla figures this one out.
Tesla Model S Self-Ignites In Texas, Owner Wants Response From Tesla - Vehiclesuggest -
What Happens To Your Honda Clarity When The Lease Is Up?
It goes to the crusher. Shades Of the EV1.
I ran across this article on CleanTechnica.
What Happens When Your Honda Clarity Lease Is Up? Honda Destroys It! (cleantechnica.com) -
Solid State Battery 10 Minute Charge Toyota - Lets Go Places
Just when you think Toyota is years behind Tesla - Boom look what Toyota has been working on - amazing a 10 minute charge.
Toyota EV with solid-state batteries: 10-minute full charge, prototype reportedly due in 2021
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