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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Yoshino Technology looks to be the first to the consumer market with portable power stations using solid-state lithium battery technology, which promises increased safety and a higher energy density when compared with standard lithium-ion batteries. The company offers these solid-state units in a range of capacities, from the smallest at 330W output and 241Wh of storage to the largest at 4000W output and 2611Wh of storage capacity. I got to spend some time with the largest unit, the B4000 SST, in order to put…
China’s state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) has launched a new Rimac Nevera-rivalling electric car under its Hyper sub-brand. Deliveries of the 2023 GAC Aion Hyper SSR have started, and it’s available in three variants. Creatively, SSR stands for Super, Sports, and Race. The Hyper SSR appears like an amalgamation of the second-generation Honda NSX and the Tesla Roadster. It has a sharp front splitter, long and sleek headlamps, two air-intake ducts on the hood, scissor doors, and a sleek rear section capped off with an upright spoiler and aggressive-looking diffusers. The starting price of the Hyper SSR is 1.28 million…
Less than a week after starting production of the Air Sapphire at its plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, Lucid Motors has kicked off customer deliveries of the 1,234-horsepower high-performance luxury EV. The EV startup held a media event this weekend at Sonoma Raceway in California to celebrate the first Lucid Air Sapphire customer deliveries. Members of the press were invited at the event to experience the new high-performance electric sedan, with British racing driver Ben Collins also present to show guests what the Lucid Air Sapphire is capable of. Lucid did not say how may Air Sapphire units it delivered…
Amazon’s fall Prime Big Deal Days savings event has arrived. As we do every time, the team at 9to5Toys will be working around the clock in order to highlight all of the best discounts. Ringing in all of the holiday shopping savings coming in the next few months, the savings start with Amazon and branch out to the likes of Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. As a fall follow up to the usual summer Prime Day festivities, Amazon is now launching its Prime Big Deal Days sale. While the name doesn’t roll off the tongue quite like its normal savings…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! On July 27, 2023, peak hourly electricity demand in the continental United States reached 741,815 megawatt-hours (MWh). This peak was the second highest since we began collecting this data in 2016, just under the all-time high of 742,704 MWh recorded on July 20, 2022. Weather is a large driver of electricity demand, especially in summer months when homes and businesses use electricity for air conditioning. Peak hourly electricity demand in the United States typically occurs in either July or August when demand for…
The first deliveries of the Rivian R1T began in September 2021, and the electric truck has been around long enough for ownership reviews to pop up. Edmunds bought an R1T Launch Edition a little over a year ago, and its road testers have shared aspects that put a wide grin on their faces, and ones that were annoying. The car buying platform purchased a 2022 Rivian R1T with 20-inch all-terrain tires. It came with a 135-kilowatt-hour battery pack, an EPA-estimated 289-mile range, and a quad motor set-up pushing 835 horsepower and 908 pound-feet of torque. This package cost $76,250 a…
The EV tax credit shifts toward a point-of-sale rebate. Rivian gets more efficiency from a larger battery pack. And do you want a car that offers all-wheel drive and about 50 mpg, for a price under $30,000? A review of the Toyota Corolla Hybrid reminded us that it’s very good. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The battery pack in Rivian R1S and R1T Max pack electric trucks is smaller than originally planned—and that’s a good thing. Rivian recently disclosed that this pack includes new cells with a higher energy density, allowing the R1S to go 400 miles…
The Toyota Corolla is the bestselling car of all time, and it remains as relevant in the new vehicle market as it ever was. That’s because in terms of value for money, the Corolla still has the market cornered. For around $25,000 you can get a comfortable compact sedan with all-wheel drive and an EPA rating near 50 mpg. If you have those three targets on your shopping list, and you live in an apartment, rent, or deal with a parking situation that doesn’t allow enough charging access, no other model comes close. It’s one of just a handful of…
The federal EV tax credit will shift to a point-of-sale dealership rebate in 2024, giving customers instant access to the credit, the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed Friday in a press release. Under current rules, buyers can’t claim the credit of up to $7,500 for new vehicles and $4,000 for used vehicles until they file their taxes. Effective Jan. 1, 2024, EV buyers will be able to claim their credit at the dealership, a change being implemented as part of the revamping of the EV tax credit under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). “For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act…