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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: VW Will Divert Resources Away From Fuel Cells, Focus On BEVs Instead
- Date: 21-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Inside EVs
Volkswagen group CEO, Herbert Diess, recently announced that the German car making giant would stop funding its fuel cell program because FCEVs aren’t seen as competitive in the next decade. The decision has been taken within the group to focus entirely on battery-powered electric vehicles that are seen as a much sounder bet for the near future.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: India’s Electric Car Ambitions Could Stumble on Lack of Lithium
- Date: 20-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Bloomberg
Home to some of the most polluted cities on the planet, the South Asian nation is pivoting toward new-energy vehicles to clean up its toxic air. But with meager resources of lithium, the mineral essential to make batteries for electric vehicles, it is having to scour for resources overseas.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Fiat Chrysler and Foxconn plan Chinese electric vehicle joint venture
- Date: 17-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Auto News
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the parent of iPhone assembler Foxconn plan to set up a joint venture to build electric cars and develop internet-connected vehicles.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Actions speak louder than words: the French commitment to electric vehicles
- Date: 16-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: ICCT
On Christmas Eve, the French government prepared itself an early Christmas present: President Emmanuel Macron promulgated the Loi d'orientation des mobilités, or Mobility Guidance Law, which sets a legislative framework to integrate environmental aspects into transportation policy. With the implementation of the bill two days later, France is now the first country in Europe to put combustion engine vehicle phase-out targets into law.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Cost remains the biggest barrier against EV adoption, study finds
- Date: 15-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Green Car Reports
A global study of consumers points to a continued disconnect between environmental awareness and electric vehicle sales—especially among Americans.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Focus of electrification will shift from China to Europe in 2020, report says
- Date: 14-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Auto News
LONDON -- The rush to electrify transportation will shift to Europe from China in 2020 as automakers and governments work to cut carbon emissions that lead to global warming, according to a forecast from BloombergNEF, Bloomberg LP's primary research service on energy transition.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: 2636 EV charging stations sanctioned under Fame India Phase II
- Date: 06-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: PV Magazine
The second phase of FAME India Scheme, which spans a period of three years commencing from April 1, 2019, provides a total budgetary support of Rs100 billion.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Hyundai Motor Group to invest $87B over next 5 years; 44 electrified vehicles; new EV development system; hydrogen plans
- Date: 02-01-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Green Car Congress
Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) will invest more than KRW100 trillion (US$87 billion) over next 5 years—KRW20 trillion (~US$17.4 billion) annually to enhance its leadership in vehicle electrification, autonomous driving and mobility services, said Euisun Chung, Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Group, at the company’s 2020 New Year ceremony at its headquarters in Seoul.
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