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CH-R will be the first electric car from Toyota
Read this today. Seems like the CH-R is the first Toyota (except the rav4 EV) to go all electric. Toyota, Panasonic partner for batteries
Wonder if it’s a China exclusive or what... and if it is, what other EV models that will come to US and Europe first. -
VW Wants The Other 50% Of EV Sales
Since Tesla owns 50%, according to VW.
VW Boss: Tesla Controls 50% Of EV Market, We're Aiming For The Rest -
Electrify America press release
Source: https://elam-cms-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/inline-files/Electrify%20America%20Announcement%20on%20Partial%20Network%20Shutdown%201.25.2019.pdf
At the recommendation of its supplier, HUBER+SUHNER, a leading supplier of high-powered charging cable technology in the industry, Electrify America is shutting down the majority of its high-powered chargers (150 kW – 350kW) in its network to investigate a potential safety issue with its liquid-cooled cables. The recommendation was issued to all of HUBER+SUHNERS’ customers using the technologyworldwide.
“The safety of our customers is our highest priority,” said Giovanni Palazzo, presidentand CEO of Electrify America. “Out of an abundance of caution, Electrify America is shutting down all of our stations that use the HUBER+SUHNER high-powered cables until we can confirm... -
Battery recycling approach
Source: Myth busting: Battery recycling does work - electrive.com
“We work with mechanics instead of temperature and crush the entire module in an inert atmosphere,” explains Christian Hanisch of Duesenfeld. The shredder contains nitrogen gas, which prevents further chemical reactions. The pressure is then significantly reduced, which first evaporates the liquid electrolyte and then recovers it through condensation. In addition to the grinding shredder, the electrolyte flows into a container.
The remains of the battery module and the cells are now dried and uncritical. Duesenfeld then separates the remaining mixture by proven processes such as magnets or air. The chips of the separator foil, the ferrous metals, the non-ferrous metals such as alloy and powder from lithium as well as cathode residues with nickel, manganese and cobalt remain. According to Christian... -
CR New Cars 2019
Bought at Costco, April 2019:
Compact Electric and Hybrids
Model Score Price Overall MPG 1 Prius Prime 78 $29889 133 / 50 2 Prius Three 77 $27323 52 3 Bolt 70 $43155 119 4 Insight 70 $24955 54 5 BMW i3 Rex 69 $50450 139 / 29 6 Kia Niro 68 $26805 43 7 Leaf 67 $38115 112 8 Prius C 67 $20850 43 9 Mirai 63 $58335 67 10 Volt 57 $35890 105 / 38 11 Ioniq 57 $25035 52 12 13 Model 3 77 $64000 130 14 Model S 79 $135000 103 15 Model X 56 $140000 92
pp. 47, 166-167. The Teslas were listed as a price range so I listed the highest.
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What Drives Us on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher
For a while now, we've been recording the What Drives Us show live on Google Hangouts. On the up side, it's great to have a live audience and interact with the chatroom. On the down side, 1) most people don't sit and watch an hour video show and 2) it's difficult to get the show from YouTube and post it to other sites.
That's all changed.
If you want to listen to an audio version of the show, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and/or Stitcher.
Now it's easier to listen to the show during your commute or wherever you are, whatever you're doing.
Here are the links:
https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=60514
What Drives Us on Spotify
What Drives Us by Russell Frost & Danny Cooper on Apple Podcasts
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What is highest ‘Drives Us’ podcast?
If we can figure out the highest podcast number, we can calculate when the backlog postings will finish and come back to this forum.
I hope the podcasters might realize someday that listening to one that is woefully dated suggests reading last year’s newspaper is not news or a useful experience.
Bob Wilson
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