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Check out Honda’s swappable battery stations for electric motorbikes, hoping to go global

October 27, 2022
Honda’s swappable battery packs, known as the Honda Mobile Power Pack e: (MPPe:), are soon getting their own Gogoro-style battery swapping stations for recharging. The station will be known as the Honda Power Pack Exchanger e: (HPPEe:), just in case we needed another long acronym. It features a number of battery slots that would allow electric scooter and motorbike riders to pop in their…
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Charging on EVgo just got easier for Teslas

October 27, 2022
EVgo has added Autocharge+ capability to Teslas using the Tesla CCS Adapter in its latest app update. This allows CCS-enabled Teslas to charge at EVgo stations without having to swipe a card. Strangely, it only works when using the Tesla CCS adapter and not when using a…
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GM says it will power all of its US sites with clean energy by 2025

October 27, 2022
General Motors (GM) today announced that it has finalized agreements to power all of its US sites with clean energy by 2025. This is in line with the accelerated target that GM announced in September 2021, which is five years ahead of the 2030 target the company announced in early 2021 and 25 years ahead of the initial target of 2050, set in 2016. GM’s clean energy portfolio now includes…
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NIU BQi-C3 Pro electric bike launched with eye-catching frame, belt drive, and two batteries

October 26, 2022
Electric moped-maker NIU has spent the last few years expanding into a wider range of two-wheeled electric vehicles, including new e-bike and e-scooter models. Now the company is finally launching its highly anticipated BQi-C3 Pro electric bicycle. We’ve been following the BQi-C3 Pro for well over a year now as the design progressed through prototype to production. Well, today’s the day…
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The EPA just awarded $1 billion to 389 school districts for electric school buses

October 26, 2022
The Biden Administration today announced the recipients of nearly $1 billion of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2022 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition. In other words, that means thousands of new electric school buses will soon hit the road across the US. The money, which came from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, went to 389 school districts across 50 states…
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