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QuietKat Lynx e-bike $800 off, Jackery power stations from $154, Gotrax e-scooters, more

November 27, 2023
Cyber Monday is wrapping up the holiday shopping season with a fresh batch of green deals that’ll also save you some green. Jackery’s latest sale is now live and taking up to 50% off an assortment of its popular portable power stations – like the Explorer 2000 PRO at $1,199. It comes joined by QuietKat’s stylish Lynx e-bike at $800 off, as well as Gotrax’s Eclipse Ultra electric scooter…
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CEO of Mazda, which makes one bad EV, says EVs don’t sell (except Teslas)

November 27, 2023
The CEO of Mazda, a company that makes one very mediocre electric car, is still trying to make electrification sound like some strange one-off consumer fad. In an interview with Fortune, Masahiro Moro basically says that if an EV isn’t a Tesla, it’s sitting unsold on a dealer lot somewhere in America. Specifically, the quote from the interview is, “EV is [an] absolutely important…
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Report: Volkswagen's Scout brand taps Magna Steyr to develop its electric truck, SUV

November 27, 2023
A recent report out of Austria states that local contract manufacturer Magna Steyr has been chosen by Volkswagen’s new all-electric truck brand Scout, to develop the latter’s first wave of vehicles. The order is reportedly worth nearly $500 million – potentially Magna Steyr’s biggest development contract ever. Scout is the classic nameplate that’s origin dates back to the International…
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Tesla Cybertrucks in showrooms attract large crowds

November 27, 2023
Tesla has populated its showrooms with Cybertruck units ahead of the launch and it was successful in attracting crowds. Last week, we reported that Tesla has started to bring early Cybertruck vehicles to showrooms around the US. At the time, they were only in two stores…
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Auto emissions *could* have dropped by 30%, but SUVs ruined it for everyone: Report

November 27, 2023
A new report gives us a glimpse of what our world could look like if there weren’t so many big, hulking SUVs cruising around. Because of the rise in electric vehicles, carbon emissions from automobiles could have dropped by more than 30% over the past 10 years, except they haven’t – and that’s because of our global appetite for jumbo cars, the report authors say. From 2010 to 2022, if…
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