Made-in-Nigeria “EMVC Adoja” Electric Vehicle Comes With Gas-powered Range-extender

Made-in-Nigeria “EMVC Adoja” Electric Vehicle Comes With Gas-powered Range-extender

Made-in-Nigeria EMVC Adoja Electric Vehicle (EV) comes with an optional gas-powered range-extender. Adoja features A.C, Reverse Camera as well as a battery-pack that allows 250-km (155 miles) electric drive per charge. The optional gas-powered range-extender worth $600 gives a total 375-kilometers (233 miles) drive. Other optional features available includes solar panels ($600), tracker ($250) and leather seats ($500). According to the company’s brochure seen by Autojosh, the Adoja is priced f...
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Xiaomi’s SU7 Electric Vehicle Faces Challenges of Prolonged Delivery Times, Production Hell and Loss-Making Sales

Xiaomi’s SU7 Electric Vehicle Faces Challenges of Prolonged Delivery Times, Production Hell and Loss-Making Sales

Xiaomi’s SU7 smart electric car has garnered significant attention from consumers, with a strong initial week of orders. However, challenges have emerged, including extended delivery times, production capacities, and the sustainability of loss-making sales. If previous consumer frenzies over particular products are indicative, the spotlight on the SU7 could swiftly turn unfavorably for Xiaomi. Regardless, Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, faces a challenging journey towards success in the EV market....
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Hybrid cars are back in as electric vehicle sales slow

Hybrid cars are back in as electric vehicle sales slow

Hybrids are becoming all the rage in the U.S. as the electric vehicle market suffers from slowed sales growth and automakers refocus their operations. Will Tesla finally unveil a self-driving vehicle? U.S. hybrid sales shot up 45% last quarter while plug-in hybrid deliveries grew 34%, according to Motorintelligence.com. Meanwhile, electric vehicle sales growth slowed to 2.7% across the first three months of 2024. Overall, sales of new vehicles grew nearly 5%. “Hybrids will play an increasingly...
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Ford delays some electric vehicles, renews focus on hybrids

Ford delays some electric vehicles, renews focus on hybrids

Ford just announced some delays for electric vehicles, including the long-awaited three-row SUV. The car was supposed to come out next year but has now been delayed until 2027, with the company suggesting it will use the extra time to “take advantage of emerging battery technology.” Ford says it’ll be making moves to “mitigate the impact the launch delay will have on” the Canadian workforce. The next-generation electric pickup, codenamed “T3,” is also being delayed from late 2025 t...
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Kenya greenlights local manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles despite minimal infrastructure

Kenya greenlights local manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles despite minimal infrastructure

Kenya has launched a national e-mobility draft policy to promote the local manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles (EVs). The initiative arrives when Kenya lacks the factories or expertise to build EVs entirely within the country. If approved, the policy will enforce zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales targets and investment criteria for car manufacturers and assemblers to qualify for government incentives. The policy will also establish clear requirements for local content (using locally...
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Electric vehicles have lowered San Francisco’s carbon footprint

Electric vehicles have lowered San Francisco’s carbon footprint

Environment A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric vehicles have helped lower carbon emissions by almost 2 per cent per year within the Bay Area By Jeremy Hsu Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon WhatsApp Linkedin Reddit Email A free electric car charging station being used in San Francisco in 2020 Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP/Alamy The growing popularity of electric vehicles has helped drive an almost 2 per cent annual dec...
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Xiaomi SU7 Electric Vehicle Receives Over 100000 Orders

Xiaomi SU7 Electric Vehicle Receives Over 100000 Orders

Xiaomi boasts that it has received north of 100,000 registrations from eager buyers, with nonrefundable deposits placed for 40,000 of those. This kind of initial reception suggests an EV blockbuster brewing. Founder Lei Jun attended the first round of SU7 deliveries at the firm’s production plant in Beijing. Jun claimed that “the real transformation of smart cars has officially begun, and China will surely see the birth of a company as great as Tesla.” The SU7 arrives in three flavours: th...
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Great apes threatened by mining for electric vehicle batteries

Great apes threatened by mining for electric vehicle batteries

The noise pollution, habitat loss and disease spillover that can come with mining could threaten chimpanzee populations in some countries in Africa Ari Wid/Shutterstock More than a third of the great apes living in Africa are under threat from the booming demand for minerals that are critical to the creation of green energy technologies, such as electric vehicles. Africa is home to around one sixth of the world’s remaining forests, with the habitat found in countries such as Ghana, Gabon and U...
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Tesla’s quarter one sales fall nearly 9% as competition heats up and demand for electric vehicles slows

Tesla’s quarter one sales fall nearly 9% as competition heats up and demand for electric vehicles slows

DETROIT: Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales growth slowed, and price cuts failed to draw more buyers. The Austin, Texas, company said it delivered 386,810 vehicles from January through March, almost 9% below the 423,000 it sold in the same quarter of last year. Sales also fell short of Wall Street expectations. Analysts polled by FactSet expected Tesla Inc. to deliver 457,000 vehicles. The company blamed the decline in part on phasing...
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Tesla Beats BYD in Battery Electric Vehicle Sales in 2024

Tesla Beats BYD in Battery Electric Vehicle Sales in 2024

Home » Energy » Tesla Beats BYD in Battery Electric Vehicle Sales in 2024 BYD sold 300,114 passenger BEVs in the first quarter of 2024, up 13.4 percent year-on-year but down 42.99 percent from the fourth quarter last year. Tesla is expected to announce 405,000 to 430,000 sales deliveries for the first quarter of 2024. Tesla was likely ahead of BED for the March, 2024 monthly sales. BYD sold 139,000 in March. This is likely very close to the level of Tesla global monthly unit sales. Tesla also...
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