#EV adoption

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The U.S. Department of Treasury’s gift to electric-vehicle shoppers (and global automakers) for the new year was to make many more EVs and plug-in hybrids eligible for the federal tax subsidy of up to $7,500 — including vehicles built outside North America — as long as drivers lease them or buy used rather than buy new.

EV credits and [rules] took effect Jan. 1.

One category extends the former credit of up to $7,500 for consumers buying new EVs and PHEVs, but it puts new limits on vehicle price and buyer income and will soon add requirements for the sourcing of EV batteries and materials. Additionally, since August [2022], it has required that the vehicles be assembled in North America.

A second is a new credit of up to $4,000 for buyers of used EVs.

A third is a “commercial” credit for businesses acquiring EVs. It offers up to $7,500 for light-duty vehicles (under 14,000 pounds) and up to $40,000 for heavier vehicles. Significantly, the commercial credit does not have the origin, price or other restrictions of the credit for consumer buyers.

On top of all that, the Department of Treasury guidance released at the end of December allows the less restrictive commercial credit to also apply to vehicles leased by consumers; that means most plug-in and fuel-cell EVs currently on the market can qualify, including those built in Europe or Asia. The credit goes to the leasing company — the vehicle owner — but it can be passed to the consumer in the form of lower lease payments.

The new federal rules do not affect state and local subsidies available for EV buyers [which may be able to get you even more savings].

-via Cars.com, January 12, 2023

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According to a story published by The New York Times, EV drivers in Norway are used to preheating their cars before going out for a drive in freezing temperatures. Lars Godbolt, who’s an adviser of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, said that charging infrastructure has also been improved greatly in the past few years, leading to shorter lines during the winter at charging stations(..)

So do your homework before going out in the freezing cold: charge at home, precondition the battery before fast charging, and even read the manual (crazy, right?) if you have to. And remember, people riding around in horse-drawn carriages used to laugh at motorists in the early days when gasoline had to be bought from the pharmacy in glass jars(..)

P.S. Oops! The problem with the Chicago EV charging nightmare turned out to be simple, it turns out that a lot of people in America are too lazy to read owner's manuals and don't bother with proper car usage practices or maintenance...!!! Wow! Surprise! Surprise...

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What Percentage of Cars Sold in 2023 Were Electric?

The automotive industry has been rapidly shifting towards electric vehicles (EVs), driven by increasing environmental concerns, technological advancements, and government incentives. The year 2023 marked a significant milestone in this transition. This transition has raised the question: What Percentage of Cars Sold in 2023 Were Electric? Let’s dive into the data to understand the impact and…

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We come to Russia, to Petersburg for a lot more than the pleasures of High Culture.  A bigger incentive is people, our good and long time friends here. I already mentioned in passing in my first installment  that we met up with friends Masha and Ivan (names changed to protect their privacy) from Moscow who came here expressly for a get-together with us and with still another two-some who live here in the city center of Petersburg, Irina and Alexei.

 Whether partly or fully retired from their lifelong professional positions, these people, through their own networks, are upstanding members of the intelligentsia in Russia’s two capitals. Ivan may no longer be president of the Moscow branch of the Union of Journalists, but he remains on the editorial board of their magazine and has administrative responsibilities in the university department of journalism. Irina may publish fewer articles today than in the past, but she performs public relations tasks on behalf of one of the clubs of Petersburg’s international friends headed by Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky.  Then there are the publishers of the Russian editions of our books with whom we did not share a meal, but with whom we spent three very pleasant hours in their office talking about the state of the book trade and about a lot more.

The overarching conclusion from spending time with these friends, who could all in the past have been described as pro-Western in orientation, is that what Alexander Dugin and Dmitry Simes were saying in the interview on The Great Game that I described a couple of days ago is borne out:  these friends now  have very positive feelings about the direction the country is taking.

This is not to say that there is complete unanimity among us about what is going on in public life. On the one side, I heard the remark that ever tighter censorship is being imposed on journalism.  On the other side, our publishers say that there is absolutely no censorship in the book trade. Of course, we put to one side the ban on sales of the author of the detective stories Boris Akunin and on the one-time Russian Booker Prize winner Ludmila Ulitskaya.  Akunin has publicly stated that he donates royalties from his book sales to the Ukrainians and Ulitskaya has made damning remarks on the ‘Putin regime’ and on the country as a whole. In wartime, their removal from bookstores is something you could expect even in nominally free and open countries.

The impact of the war on the lives of our friends is clearest as regards the Petersburg pair.  For the past twenty years they travel each summer to Crimea, where they own a patch of land and a tiny house on a hillside overlooking the port town of Feodosiya on the eastern shores of the peninsula. Last year there were Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on the town and they witnessed the midair destruction of these aircraft. One girl who was spending the night on a hillside to watch the dawn was killed by falling debris.  As the countdown begins for their train journey to Crimea at the end of this month, they cannot avoid thinking about a possible Ukrainian missile strike on the Kerch bridge on which their train will be traveling for 20 minutes to reach the peninsula. Then there is the uncertainty about how intense the missile and drone attacks on Feodosiya will be this summer. The risks are low but they do not make for calm nerves, which is what you really want from a summer get-away.  Some friends of theirs who are also owners of dachas on the hills above Feodosia have cancelled their travel plans, though others are proceeding to the Crimea as in the past.

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I have in previous installments spoken about goods. Now I will turn to services. The one we use daily is taxis and I direct attention to that. 

We take taxis around town in Pushkin. But mostly we use them to drive into and from the Petersburg city center.

Back in the bad old days of generalized pauperdom in the 1990s, every jalopy Lada traveling down the street could be hailed and would take you wherever you were going for next to nothing.  Forget seat belts! Forget suspension!  Forget the rules of the road!  The drivers, mostly coming from Central Asia, were free spirits.

Those days are long gone.  Nobody today will stop to pick you up if you raise your hand curbside. Unoccupied taxis will not let you in, because they are all radio dispatched, waiting for their next order.  And the business has really consolidated in the past couple of years, with many smaller taxi companies having been bought out and with Yandex, the Russian equivalent to Google, having taken a dominant if not monopolistic position in the Petersburg market. I assume Yandex is similarly placed across the country.

One result of Yandex scooping up all the cars and drivers is that when you place your order by phone you have no idea what will be the quality of the car and driver who arrives to pick you up.  It may be a proper Yandex branded car in full livery, or it may be just an ordinary passenger car, often quite worn out, operated by a Yandex ‘partner.’ Placing your order via their App is a safer bet, because you see on your telephone what the car and driver look like and have veto power.

Measured in dollars or euros, the taxis operating in Petersburg are cheap.  The cars must take in 8 – 10 euros per hour if they are fully engaged.  Fares for a given trip are revised up or down depending on the computer projected time of the journey taking into account density of traffic. How much of the gross revenue is passed along to the driver depends on his relationship to the company:  his contract may be for rental of the vehicle from the taxi company, or it may be that he provides the vehicle. Our Pushkin based taxi service competes with others when it posts a new passenger call, since any one driver may be under contract with several firms.

In the past, going back a dozen years, when there were only local taxi companies, you could do side deals with drivers to order their services directly, not going through the dispatcher. Back then and until quite recently, I found the drivers to be very chatty and a good source of all kinds of information about local politics, local gripes and so forth. The ride into Petersburg takes between 45 minutes and an hour and a half depending on the weekday and the time of travel, so there was plenty of time to ‘chew the fat,’ as we say.

 With the recent professionalization or corporatization of taxis under the Yandex banner, drivers seem less approachable and I rarely strike up conversations with them.  However, two days ago, in the last 5 minutes of our late evening drive from Petersburg center to our apartment in Pushkin, I asked the driver what he thought about the fancy and impressive top of the line Geely car we were in. It was as if he had been just waiting for the opportunity to share his concerns as he weighs the possibility of actually buying a Geely, not renting it from Yandex to raise his share of the fares.

The Geely, for those of you who are not familiar with Chinese brands, is one of the biggest Chinese manufacturers, with extensive operations outside China. Inter alia, they happen to be the owners of Sweden’s Volvo cars.

The ride in his Crossover was very comfortable, as you would expect in a car of this type. It was very easy to get into and to get out of.  And the interior was up to date, with large a informational screen on the dashboard.  However, the driver’s interests lay elsewhere, namely in service life, in resistance to rust (poor) and the robustness of the electronics (poor).  Then there is the question of availability of spare parts, which, per his information can take up to two months to procure, and that is a real negative.

You see quite a few Geely cars on Petersburg streets these days, but still more Haval cars produced by China’s Great Wall Motors, Chery from the manufacturer of the same name, and Exeed.

Last night we traveled home from the city in a Yandex liveried Exeed, which also was noteworthy for passenger space and comfort, for good suspension and tight steering.  Once again I decided to talk cars with the driver and he was delighted to oblige.  By his face seen in profile, it was clear he himself came from one of the Chinese sphere of influence countries. But his Russian was perfect, and he clearly aims to make his future here.

He is satisfied with his Exeed, though he acknowledges there are potential problems with spare parts. We may assume that this will be resolved once the newly arrived Chinese brands build their dealerships and local inventory.

The experience of last night’s driver with his Exeed only goes back a couple of months. Before that he drove a Chery, also in the luxury car category. Its best and endearing feature was safety. He and the car parted company when someone crashed into him at a crossroads and the car was destroyed. However, the air bags worked perfectly and he walked away from the wreck without a scratch.

From this chap I picked up the observation that the Chinese entered the Russian market a couple of years ago with very cheap prices.  However, when the South Korean manufacturers left Russia some months ago, the Chinese immediately steeply raised their prices.  Chinese cars may still be priced below comparable West European brands like Mercedes, but that is only because Russian consumers pay a premium to import their Mercedes, etc. from third countries in parallel trade.

 We may assume that Chinese manufacturers have found their new Russian market to be a boon. Here they can dispose of their internal combustion cars for which there is falling demand in their domestic market now that the Chinese public is turning to Electrical Vehicles in big numbers.  In Russia there is virtually no demand for EVs, because there is virtually no charging infrastructure for private cars.

Finally, on the subject of cars and drivers, I say with conviction that the more expensive and comfortable the car, the better the taxi driver follows the rules of the road and shows courtesy to pedestrians. None is ‘racing a traffic light.’  None is flying over speed bumps. None is weaving between lanes. All of these bad habits that raise safety risks were common in the driving public before.

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Victory in Europe Day, 9th May, was celebrated this year like last, with only military parades that people watched at home on television. There were no Immortal Regiment parades that brought the broad public out onto the streets in the years leading up to the Special Military Operation. The risk of terror attacks put an abrupt end to the Immortal Regiment and that is sad.

On the positive side, this year it was common for strangers to congratulate one another with good wishes for the holiday.  So it was with our taxi driver who took us to the late lunch/early dinner we shared with friends in the city center. This year you could see cars flying the red flag of Victory day with the same patriotic gusto that Americans show on the 4th of July when they drive around their towns.

Finally, I close out these Travel Notes with a remark on the big Russian attack on the Kharkov region that began yesterday and is still underway, said to be the biggest of its kind since the Special Military Operation began.

There is considerable speculation in the West on what this means.  Some say the Russians will try to take the city in the coming days.  Others say it is just a feint, to draw Ukrainian troops away from other sectors of the front, in particular, from the Donetsk region, where the Russians will stage their real offensive, seeking to capture the strategic town of Chasiv Yar that has been contested for months and open the way to the full liberation of the Donbas.

Following as I do the Russian state news, I emphasize that the Russians are presently not tipping their hand. They only report the names of the villages in the Kharkov region lying between the city and the border with Russia that they have taken in the past 24 hours.  Consequently all that we can say at this point is that the Russian forces have de facto created a ‘sanitary zone’ from which the Ukrainians can no longer fire artillery , drones and short range missiles into the residential neighborhoods of the Belgorod region on the other side of the border, killing civilians and creating havoc as they have been doing for months.

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"Planet Ocean: tides are changing" 🌊🌊

As we celebrate World Oceans Day, we are reminded of the immense beauty and importance of our oceans. At CJNOO, we are committed to protecting our precious marine ecosystems by providing sustainable energy solutions. 🌍

Just as the tides shape our coastlines, our charging stations shape a cleaner future. With our state-of-the-art charging infrastructure, we contribute to reducing carbon emissions and preserving the health of our oceans. Together, let's make a splash in the world of renewable energy!

Join us in our mission to protect and conserve our oceans. Together, we can create a harmonious balance between sustainable energy and marine preservation.

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Mober hosts World EV Day forum to drive commercial EV adoption in the Philippines

Manila, Philippines — Mober, a frontrunner in green logistics services in the Philippines, spearheaded the Philippines’ celebration of World Electric Vehicle (EV) Day on September 9 when it hosted “Leading the Way in Green Logistics: A Forum on Moving Together for a Carbon-Free Philippines,” which focused on accelerating the push on the use of commercial EVs in the country. The forum brought…

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🚀 Evaluating the PM E-DRIVE Scheme: A Game-Changer for India's Electric Mobility! 🔋

The newly launched PM E-DRIVE scheme is a bold move by the Indian government to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across the country. 💪 With a substantial budget of ₹10,900 crore and a targeted approach, this scheme aims to revolutionize the way we commute and reduce our carbon footprint. 🌍 Key Highlights 🔑 Targeted Support: The scheme focuses on incentivizing the purchase of…

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Japan to allocate up to $2.4bn in new support for national EV battery production

Japan will provide more subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) battery production, pledging to support Toyota Motor and other major companies.

Tokyo would support 12 projects for storage batteries, materials or production equipment worth up to 350 billion yen ($2.44 billion), Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ken Saito reported.

We hope that these efforts will strengthen Japan’s storage battery supply chain and the storage battery industry’s competitiveness.

The move will help expand the country’s annual battery production volume by about 50 per cent, according to Japanese media. The government support included backing investments by Toyota, Nissan Motor and joint projects with carmakers Subaru and Mazda Motor.

Toyota will invest a total of about 245 billion yen along with its subsidiaries Prime Planet Energy & Solutions and Primearth EV Energy. The company will start supplying batteries from November 2026. The plan involves the construction of battery plants in Hyogo and Fukuoka prefectures.

Nissan also stated that it had received certification from the government for a plan to produce lithium-iron-phosphate batteries. The automaker intended to install such batteries in minicars from fiscal 2028, receiving up to 55.5 billion yen in support.

Meanwhile, Panasonic’s energy division, which made batteries for Tesla, and Subaru said in a joint statement that they would open a plant in Gunma prefecture to supply cyclindrical lithium-ion batteries from the 2028 business year.

In a joint statement, the companies announced that Panasonic Energy would produce batteries for Mazda’s EVs at its Suminoe and Kaizuka plants in Osaka from 2027, with the carmaker completing the batteries.

Read more HERE

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I would never get an EV not enough range.

let’s test that assumption

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Electrifying Future: How UAE is Leading the Charge in EV Adoption

In the heart of the United Arab Emirates, a revolution is underway. It’s not just about the skyscrapers touching the clouds or the futuristic cities emerging from the desert sands; it’s about a shift in how we think about mobility. 

The UAE’s National Electric Vehicles Policy, outlined by Minister Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, is not just a policy. It’s a vision.

 A vision that aims to transform the transportation landscape into one that’s sustainable, efficient, and, importantly, electric. Read more, visit https://www.regeny.ae/revolutionizing-mobility-uae-regeny-ev/

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P.S. A comparison of the prices of electric cars of the same model in the Chinese and German car markets actually shows that in Europe the prices of electric cars have actually been artificially inflated too high by legacy automakers in order to save their investments in the ICE car business. After all, the production of electric cars is not that much more expensive than the outdated companies and the media bought by them are trying to tell....

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What Is the Best Electric Car Charger for Home Use?

Choosing the right electric car charger for home use is a crucial decision for EV owners. With the growing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), having a reliable and efficient charging solution at home is essential for convenience, cost savings, and ensuring your vehicle is always ready for the road. In this article, we’ll explore what is the best electric car charger for home use by examining…

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Sparking Change: Strategies for Building Sustainable Electric Charging Networks

In an era where sustainability takes center stage, the electric vehicle (EV) industry emerges as a beacon of innovation. With EV adoption soaring, the urgency for robust charging infrastructure has never been greater. Crafting an efficient and scalable network of electric charging stations is pivotal to ushering in a greener era of transportation. Here, we dive into essential strategies for constructing charging networks that cater to the evolving needs of consumers and businesses alike.

Recognizing the Vitality of Electric Charging Infrastructure

The success of electric vehicles hinges on accessible and reliable charging infrastructure. Without viable charging options, concerns like range anxiety impede widespread EV adoption. Moreover, businesses reliant on EV fleets require dependable charging solutions to bolster their operations. Thus, developing a comprehensive charging infrastructure is paramount to instilling confidence among EV owners and driving the transition towards sustainable transportation.

Key Strategies for Building an Effective Charging Network

Strategic Location Planning:

Identifying bustling areas such as urban hubs, highways, shopping districts, and workplaces for optimal charging station placement.

Collaborating with local stakeholders to secure prime locations for charging infrastructure deployment.

Scalability and Future-Proofing:

Designing charging networks with scalability in mind to accommodate the growing number of electric vehicles.

Investing in versatile charging solutions capable of adapting to various standards and future technological advancements.

Integration with Renewable Energy Sources:

Harnessing renewable energy sources like solar and wind power to reduce the environmental footprint of charging operations.

Forging partnerships with renewable energy providers to integrate clean energy solutions into charging infrastructure.

Enhanced User Experience:

Prioritizing user experience by offering convenient payment options, intuitive charging interfaces, and reliable customer support.

Implementing smart charging technologies to optimize schedules, minimize wait times, and enhance overall user satisfaction.

Data-Driven Insights and Analytics:

Utilizing data analytics to monitor charging station utilization, identify usage patterns, and optimize network performance.

Leveraging insights from user feedback to continually refine the charging experience and tailor services to evolving needs.

Empowering Industry Advancement with Expert Insights

For deeper insights into building an efficient and scalable network of electric charging stations, we invite you to explore our comprehensive guide on "Strategies for Building an Effective and Scalable Network of Vehicle Electric Charging Stations." This resource provides actionable tips and real-world examples to guide your efforts in optimizing charging infrastructure. By leveraging the expertise shared in this guide, stakeholders in the EV industry can drive positive change and accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation.

Conclusion: Paving the Way for a Cleaner, Greener Tomorrow

As we navigate towards a future of sustainable mobility, establishing an effective network of electric charging stations plays a pivotal role. By implementing strategic approaches to building charging infrastructure, stakeholders can propel the widespread adoption of electric vehicles and shape the future of transportation. Together, let's pave the way for a cleaner, greener tomorrow.

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The 3rd Changsha International Construction Machinery Exhibition (CICEE for short) was conducted at Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 12th to 15th, 2023. After the world's three major construction machinery exhibits, such as Bauma in Germany, the Construction Machinery Exhibition in the United States, and the Construction Machinery Exhibition in France, CICEE is the largest construction machinery exhibition in Asia.

Jingneng New Energy (CJNOO) has made a strong presence with a variety of DC charging heaps and super charging piles as the firm with the greatest shipments of domestic construction machinery charging piles for two consecutive years! Simultaneously, Sun Maojian, President of Strategic Development of CJNOO, was invited to attend the show and delivered a speech titled "Development Trend of New Energy Construction Machinery" and the keynote speech "Supercharged Future."

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