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Nio took four years to deliver its first 10 million battery swap service and nine months to achieve its second 10 million. Its third 10 million service took six months. https://img.cnevpost.com/2023/10/09194331/2023100911433199.mp3 (Image credit: CnEVPost) Nio (NYSE: NIO) today saw its cumulative battery swap service reach 30 million times, just six months after its 20 millionth. Nio completed its first battery swap station in Shenzhen on May 20, 2018, and vehicle owners were skeptical in the early days of battery swap service availability. However, as they have experienced the convenience of the service over the past few years, battery swap has…
Li Auto is set to take deliveries to the next level in the fourth quarter and is expected to see monthly deliveries of more than 40,000 units, the company’s CEO said. https://img.cnevpost.com/2023/10/09174002/2023100909400162.mp3 (Image credit: CnEVPost) Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) completed capacity upgrades at its manufacturing base, setting the stage for a delivery ramp-up in the fourth quarter. “Reporters from CCTV visited Li Auto’s smart manufacturing base in Changzhou, and Li Auto’s head of manufacturing, Li Bin, revealed that the capacity upgrade has been completed,” the company wrote in a Weibo post yesterday when it shared a video from state-run broadcaster…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I’ve been wanting to write this article for a while, but this post on X from Chamath Palihapitiya prompted me to action: Look at the explosive growth and falling costs of batteries, solar and wind in the chart below…the numbers are really impressive. This is why I think we will have a near zero marginal cost of energy by 2030. The incremental cost of generating power will approach ~$0.005/kWh in… pic.twitter.com/NBNsL3AWCV — Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) October 5, 2023 Chamath is pointing out that solar…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After all the announcements during 2023, it was great to see that the Ford Mustang Mach-E had finally arrived in Brisbane, Queensland. A few demonstrator models have been sprinkled around the different Ford dealerships and we had to be quick to get a test drive. From the website, it looked like only 4 had arrived and they were only available at each spot for a few days. So, I booked it early and we drove around the block from the dealership this afternoon. Ford…
Waymo’s completely driverless taxi is coming to Los Angeles, and will be open to the public starting this week. We got an advance ride in these self-driving electric cars and got a sense of what this level 4 system can do in one of the more chaotic driving situations in a city full of chaotic driving situations: a Santa Monica and Venice Beach weekend. Waymo is the self-driving division of Google/Alphabet, founded in 2009, focusing on delivering fully autonomous driverless taxis. It has been operating self-driving vehicles on public roads in some way or another since 2017, when it started…
Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA) reports that its vehicle sales in the United States during the third quarter of 2023 improved by over 32 percent year-over-year to 22,196. So far this year, the company sold 67,736 vehicles (up 4.1 percent year-over-year). An interesting thing is that Mitsubishi’s sole plug-in model – the upgraded Outlander PHEV – is selling better and better, reaching another quarterly record. In Q3, Mitsubishi sold 1,887 Outlander PHEV (compared to just six units of the previous generation of the model a year ago). That’s 8.5 percent of the brand’s total volume. For reference, the internal-combustion engine…
Nissan sales in the United States significantly rebounded during the third quarter of 2023 and amounted to 200,334 vehicles, which is 40 percent more than a year ago. So far this year, the Japanese brand sold almost 648,219 vehicles (up 28 percent year-over-year). Meanwhile, Nissans all-electric car sales surged by 376 percent year-over-year to 6,074, which is the highest quarterly result since Q4 2014. This result is not the highest among BEV manufacturers, but it might be a sign that Nissan is finally turning around its EV sales after a very long time of lackluster results in the EV space.…
Teslas continue to improve for several years after purchase, especially in the software department. In the latest upgrade, the Austin-headquartered brand has improved the camera quality on its Hardware 3 (HW3) cars, as pointed out by an owner on X last month, and officially confirmed by the brand this week. Tesla owner @efieber_andre posted the upgrade on X, claiming that the 2023.32.4 software upgrade was a “game changer.” In the side-by-side comparison demonstrated below, the feed from the previous version appears overly saturated, has a red tint, and is blurred on the edges in low lighting conditions. Those issues have…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! SACRAMENTO — In a strong move to hold oil companies responsible for the economic and public health dangers of oil wells left idle and unplugged, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1167, the “Orphan Well Prevention Act,” into law. This bill, authored by Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, will ensure that the state receives a bond covering the full cost of site cleanup when an idle or marginally producing oil well is sold. An increasing number of wells at the end of their life are being…
The largest Rivian battery pack, dubbed the Max pack, is now entering production, but with less capacity than original discussed. When it announced the Max pack about two years ago, Rivian mentioned a gross capacity of 180 kwh. But this past week, Rivian confirmed to Car and Driver that it’s largest pack has a gross capacity of just 149 kwh. Since then, Rivian has also confirmed that number to Green Car Reports as well as something perhaps even more meaningful: why it’s not 180 kwh. Rivian R1T, green, vs. Rivian R1S, silver In short: The Max pack utilizes a new…