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Such a happy looking car.
China’s Kandi plans to enter US market, unveils two new electric cars in Texas | Electrek

Toyota Prius PHV undergoing LTA approval - CarBuyer

Understanding The Debate Over Ethanol And Smog – R-Squared Energy

Apparently Pres. Trump is supporting farm state request to allow E15 sales year round. It will apparently not be mandated, but allowed to be sold. Ethanol increases evaporative emissions to some extent, for the reasons described in the article. So that is one sticking point.

Currently, there are over 280 events on the schedule, so are you planning on heading to any of your local NDEW events this year?

Drive Electric Week celebrations are on September 8-16, 2018 this year, with events planned across the US (and other countries).

Learn how to host an NDEW event in your area, or check out the national event calendar/schedule.
They also have volunteer opportunities on the NDEW website!

China Turns To CHAdeMO For Fast Charging: Single Unified Standard

Source: Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar'



I'm reminded of the old joke, which is better Soviet or Capitalist H*ll? Both have the d*mned shoveling fecal material into the furnaces:

• In Soviet H*ll, sometimes they don't have shovels.
• Sometimes they don't have fecal material.
• Sometimes the flames are out.

Bob Wilson

Caution, excessive use of percentages can easily mislead. For example, sold 1 car last month and 3 cars this month would be a 300% increase in sales . . . ask the last one out please turn off the lights.

Source: Tesla Deliveries Up 229% In California In Q2: Model 3 Outsells Prius

Obviously someone is missing, as of the end of June, YTD: Download File

• Prius 46,171 (-17.3%)
  • ...

"Multiple units of the cell will be combined to make a "replaceable" battery pack, which will be used for Honda's scooter-type electric two-wheeled vehicle (EV motorbike) and compact four-wheeled electric vehicle (EV)."
Panasonic to supply battery cells to Honda - Japan Today

Electric scooters with removeable batteries for charging indoors already exist. The news here is that Honda is planning on having a standard battery pack that will work in multiple vehicles. Like the batteries for power tools now.

Wow, it's nice seeing 200+ mile ranged EV's starting to slowly make its way to the market. Just hope they can build enough of them.

2019 Hyundai Kona Electric rated at class-leading 258 miles of range by EPA

Elon brings it up. In the beginning, actually going for $45,000 to start?
Musk Talks Tesla & Automaker's $25,000 Future Car With MKBHD

Source: EIA: US refineries running at near-record highs - Green Car Congress


California has already shown that when there are insufficient refinery capacity, fuel prices and shortages can spike prices up and lead to gas lines.

Bob Wilson

Source: 2017 Has Been The Year Of The Toyota Prius’ Decline

A good read;

Electric Cars Could Be a Job Killer for Japan’s No. 1 Industry - Bloomberg

Hopfully - this may be a wake up call for a market that their company has often intimated is not yet ready for 'Prime' time .... no pun intended.
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In July, newly elected Premiere Doug Ford canceled the generous EV program in Ontario with a ‘grace period’ for any eligible vehicles in dealer inventory, such that they can still get the rebate as long as it sold and plated by Sept 10. Of course, since Tesla operates differently and does not use a dealer network with inventory, that means rebates ended immediately on July 11 for any customers who had a Model 3 on order - and already paid a deposit - meaning their already-contracted car purchase just increased $14K! . This is completely unfair.

Tesla has allegedly been understanding and graceful in allowing these customers to cancel their order for full refund, now Tesla is suing Ontario for the unfair treatment.

Should be interesting!

Tesla suing Ontario government over cancellation of electric vehicle rebates | Globalnews.ca

Scientists create battery that refuels electric cars in seconds - BBC News

It is a flow battery in which the researchers have developed a system for removing spent electrolyte from the car, and then filling it with charged fluid. They may have also improved upon the flow battery's energy capacity(most are less than Li-ion).

The article is light on details, but if this can be scaled up, it does solve the long distance recharge question. I just hope somebody doesn't decide we don't need home charging any more because of it.

Looks like VW is really getting into their punishment.

Solar Car Sion – Sono Motors

The InsideEV's sales scorecard is out! They recently changed to a quarterly update and just finished updating the report this week.

According to InsideEV's, July marked the 34th month of consecutive year-over-year monthly sales gains for plug-in vehicles.

They estimated a total of 29,514 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in July, and based on automakers’ sales reports and InsideEV's estimates, 153,666 plug-in cars have been delivered through the end of July 2018.

Check out the full report and see the chart snapshot (pictured below), in its entirety, here.






The Prius Prime lands the 2nd spot for the month (1,984)

Here's a fun historical EV fact for this Friday



This Italian electric car let people commute for 7 cents during the 1970s oil crisis, hitting speeds of a whopping 28 mph, with a 55-mile range.

Dallas News shared more on the Elcar here.