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It’s been spring break right here in Florida, and the previous week has included some attention-grabbing tales that stand out a bit from the norm. There are additionally a few huge themes to spotlight. Take a look at the highest 10 record under and one bonus story on the finish.
1. Chinese language electrical vehicles are quietly taking on the auto market globally, and that’s beginning to get attention-grabbing. In accordance with one evaluation from Transport & Surroundings (T&E), a full 25% of electrical vehicles offered in Europe in 2024 are anticipated to have been produced in China! In 2023, the determine was 19.5%.
On that observe, our personal Max Holland had a couple of tales asking whether or not the Dacia Spring’s rivals in China will come to Europe.
2. Thus far beneath the massive electrical automobile radar, electrical bikes are a important a part of the EV revolution. On that matter, WRI had a narrative on how solar-powered battery swap stations may enhance the shift to electrical bikes in Rwanda, and our personal Remeredzai Kuhudzai famous that there are increasingly electrical bikes in Nairobi, Kenya.
3. On the opposite finish of the spectrum are electrical vehicles, and significantly electrical truck towing. For these on the lookout for extra information on this, Jennifer Sensiba goes into depth on latest towing exams of 4 electrical vehicles.
4. Talking of electrical vehicles, it seems that Rivian now tops the charts for auto model loyalty! Tesla, which was as soon as on the prime of the charts, is now all the way down to fifth — with two huge German manufacturers whose gross sales have definitely been damage by Tesla now above it (BMW and Porsche), however little MINI above all of them and solely trailing Rivian.
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6. EV tipping factors are being handed and most of the people don’t even understand it. Take a look at Steve Hanley’s article on this, in addition to the 178 feedback from readers discussing this enormous matter.
7. Bringing down battery recycling prices. The Biden–Harris administration is concentrated on advancing the EV revolution in a number of the way, and that features investing $62 million into efforts to deliver down battery recycling prices.
8. Tesla FSD V12 is getting rave critiques. Even from many individuals who’ve been unimpressed by FSD up until now, we’re listening to that FSD model 12 is doing beautifully. Sadly, I’ve solely had actually dangerous experiences with it, however I’ll return to that one other day.
9. Professional-EV memes to battle anti-EV memes. Anti–EV memes have gotten fairly well-liked nowadays, and our personal Scott Cooney had an concept — battle memes with memes (i.e., reply with pro-EV memes to anti-EV memes). Scott is asking for all arms in serving to with this.
10. Getting again to China (to take this full circle), we simply printed our common China EV gross sales report for February. It’s all the time an interesting learn.
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That’s all for now. Tell us if we missed some other huge cleantech tales you suppose we must always have coated right here.
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