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  • Trudeau promises competition with the United States.

    The cross border tensions in terms of automaking are a thing of the past for United States and Canada and Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau is now talking about the bigger bilateral challenge which is coming for Canada and that is the economic competition with United States.

    From the perspective of Canada, the first two years of the president Joe Biden had been all about the countering of United States protectionism by the preaching of virtues related to trade between the like-minded partners.

    Biden/s plan which was to energize the electric vehicle industry by increasing sales has brought Mexico and Canada into the contention and has led to the coining of a new term which is friend-shoring for placating the anxious allies of America.

    But Trudeau’s pitch means that Canada is about to make a few important decisions in the battle for the high paying jobs, sustainable growth, international talent and foreign investment.

    In an interview recently he said that competing with United States is going to be a big challenge for them as it has been under all the previous administrations.

    He also said that there will always be ways in which he is able to make the situation advantageous for the Canadians as there is a lot of room for growth along with the workforce which is well-educated, reliable and diverse and the one that comes with the built-in health care and that is going to make Canada a great place to invest in

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    The PM used the example of Arcelor Mittal Dofasco which is now converting its plants into being less carbon-intensive by using the electric material instead of coal and that is going to reduce the carbon emissions by 60%. He also highlighted the need for the electric vehicle policies and promised 50,000 electric vans by 2025

  • Oregon to ban sale of fuel-powered vehicles by 2035.

    The cars which are powered on fuel, light-duty trucks along with SUVs are now going to be out of Oregon as Oregon is banning the sale of these vehicles in Oregon by the year 2035. This is an effort which comes as Oregon is going to aim to cut the climate change emissions by as much as 50% by the year 2035 and by 90% by 2050. The transportation sector is going to account for close to 40% of the emissions in Oregon and is also the biggest pollution source in United States.

    The policymakers of the state have approved a rule which is going to ban the sale of the new gasoline-powered vehicles in the city by the year 2035.

    The rule has also been adopted by California and it requires the car manufacturers to sell a major percentage of the zero-emission vehicles as a part of the total sale. The target for them is 35% in 2026 and has been increased to 100% by the year 2035.

    This is a ban which doesn’t affect the cars which are already on road and doesn’t require the Oregonians to stop the buying of fuel powered vehicles. The used vehicles will be available for further sale in the state but the sales of a new car will be banned and will have to be done out of the state.

    However over a dozen states are now going to follow the same policy and Oregon is going to be the third state to adopt this act. The act allows Oregon and the other states to either align with the emission standard which are federally proposed or with California’s stringent rules.

    This is going to be an important step by Oregon to increase the focus on electric vehicles with such regulation encouraging people to buy electric vehicles.

  • EV charging sees 228% rise in investment in 2022

    There is a new report about the zero emission vehicles which states that the there is an estimate about the cumulative investment in the charging of electric vehicles and its hardware. The estimate of cumulative investment states that the EV charging hardware and installation is going to reach $62 billion by the year end with the investment of $28.6 billion in 2022 and that is an increase of 228% from the previous year of the total investment. There is a major expense here which includes 600,000 chargers being built by the Chinese. The total investment all over the world is going to pass the market of $100 billion in the year 2023 if the pace that China has maintained is kept up. This is a milestone which is going to transition into the new phase of the EV charging lifestyle.

    Many signs are there of a transition being underway and the facts suggest that the factories are now scaling up and the increase in purchase commitments. There has been an influx of the investors on infrastructure and coordination all over the charging ecosystem with the automotive, utility and charging sectors all working together.

    The growth has happened through various stages. It began when the Nissan Leaf launched in the year 2010.

    The new scale of this industry was hit during the year 2019 when the public charging infrastructure. Tesla more or less has been a lone performer up to the point with the 12,000 superchargers all over the world and 120 kw max charging speeds.

    The peak adoption has become a great boost for the electric vehicle charging which is going to grow further in the years to come with the infrastructure development in the developing countries where the pollution levels are higher such as India where the adoption will grow the market considerably.  

  • Electric Vehicles have existed for more than a century.

    Electric vehicles are widely perceived to be a phenomenon which has recently grown but it is a story which starts many years before the onset of the superpower of electric vehicles which is Tesla. William Morrison who is believed to be the eccentric chemist had been working on an electric carriage long before the 1900s and he did it in his secret basement which he called Cave. The vehicle may not be a competitor to the kind of technological advancement we currently have but it was certainly an inspiration for many a scientist who has been researching on bringing the carbon footprint of the country down. Electric cars history suggests in 1900s were a golden period for the EVs as over one third of the vehicles which were built were electric ones. The problem then however was the slow speed of the vehicle and the heavy batteries and the mass-produced Model T of Ford which had been dealing serious haymakers to the industry of electric vehicles.

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    Ford was the pioneer of creating petrol powered vehicles and making them affordable for the buyers. The US had a better infrastructure than most other economies and the growth of Texas Crude oil gave rise to some of the biggest innovations of the country in terms of vehicles. Rural Americans found it easy to get to petrol and found it really cheap as well.

    The growth has been based on the electric vehicle need due to the carbon neutral need as the climate change has taken place with environment taking a battering due to the petrol based carbon emissions. Electric vehicles are offering a hope to grow the countries towards a carbon neutral future which could be more sustainable than the one that we are currently looking at. The growth is expected to further take place with investment by the governments.

  • Delta to become one stop shop for the electric vehicles.

    In India, Delta is an electric charging station which is a very popular place to charge their electric cars. This is a major global leader in power and a thermal management solutions, Delta has cumulatively delivered more than 6000 electric vehicle chargers for the customers in the country.

    The close cooperation between major stakeholders and Delta in the charging infrastructure sector like Bangalore Electricity Supply Company, Tata Power, Bharat Petroleum and the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd as well as the OEMs has made the breakthrough possible. The managing director, Niranjan Nayak, Delta Electronics India has said that the track record in integrating energy-saving solutions and variety of the Electric Vehicle Charging portfolio has made them a preferred Electric Vehicle charging solution partner in India.

    Globally, Delta has been delivering over 1 million Electric Vehicle chargers since the year 2009.

    Every region in the world has been coming up with the own standard of charging which include CHAdeMo, CCS followed by the other carmakers such as Tesla Supercharger but the discussions are going on a single charging standard for the entire world.

    While there had been initial discussions on the Bharat charging standard for the Indian people and Indian carmakers are following the CCS 2. The person said that the currently 80-85% electric vehicle chargers in India are the CCS2. The CCS2 are expected to become default charging standard in the country.

    Delta has been evolving from just the EV charger supplier to becoming a total solution partner. Nayak had said that Delta offers a complete solution in enabling the EV charging infrastructure from the site survey to the designing the specifications, aftersales and installation services.

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    While there was a lot of hardware for the infrastructure charging is usually imported, Delta has enhanced its local Research and development and manufacturing capabilities with over 50% content of the product offering in country now manufactured locally.

  • Canada Electric vehicle to be slower in the coming years

    The transformation of Canada Electric Vehicle is picking speed up rapidly with the automakers committing an estimate of $1.2 Trillion to the electrification through the year 2030 for building tens of the millions for the electric vehicles, more than the double of amount from only a year ago. As more of the electric vehicles come to the market, the countries around the world have been rapidly building the charging infrastructure and supporting the citizens in transition to the electric.

    While others race ahead for an electrified future, the country is on a low battery of Canada.

    As per the electric vehicle readiness index which is developed by the global accounting firm Ernst Young, Canada has now fallen from the eighth place in the year 2021 to the 13th in the year 2022 of the top 14 vehicle markets of the world. The main reasons are the lack of ambition on the charging infrastructure and the consumer incentives.

    The recent assessment of the needs of charging suggests that for every 24 electric vehicles on road by 2030, Canada is going to need just one public charger. Comparing this to California, a jurisdiction the federal government regularly co-operates with on the climate policy where the estimate of the California Energy commission estimates that every 12 electric vehicles on road is going to require one public charger by the year 2030.

    The charging infrastructure build-out of Canada is very concerning too. As of the year September 2022, only 2500 chargers had been operational of planned 84,500 government funded charging.

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    At the pace of construction, the chargers which are government funded won’t be operational until after 2050 which is decades after the target of EV sales which the government has set. Canada has an antiquated approach to the electricity which is becoming difficult for the country.

  • Lyft wants to have more drivers into electric vehicles

    Lyft which is an app-based ride-booking service which is rolling out the new set of perks geared towards having more drivers into the electric vehicles.

    This is a move which could come as the federal government has been offering a more generous tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicle which meets certain requirements. Many states as well as localities also have the incentive programs and are planning for the significant expansion of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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    In California, Uber and also Lyft are also facing state regulation that call for the emission cuts from the ride-booking services in years ahead.

    Lyft has said on Monday that it is going to award the drivers in California in the $150 bonus if they compete close 50 trips in the week using the personal electric vehicle. That incentive is going to run through the December of 2024 and the drivers can keep receiving bonus until they hit $8,100. The drivers can only have one bonus payment every week.

    Additionally, it has also been said by Lyft it had entered with charging company EVgo to get the US drivers discount of close to 45% on the standard charging rates, with savings could vary on the basis of factors such as location and time. And it announced the discounts and the pre-negotiated rates for home charging equipment and the installations with couple of different companies, Coil and Wallbox.

    Lyft pledged a couple of years for having all the vehicles on the platform to go electric by the year 2030.

    The company has dumped upward of the $45 million into campaigns for the failed measure on November Ballot of California that would have raised the taxes on the people earning more than $2 million every year for helping in paying for electric vehicle subsidies.

  • Electric Vehicle tyres may give better battery range by close to 10%

    Electric Vehicle drivers may boost their battery range by close to 10% while using the Electric Vehicle Tyres as per Michelin.

    However, the research which is conducted by the manufacturers of tyres showed that most of the drivers are unaware that the tyres which are specific to the Electric vehicles are available with the three-quarters of the drivers in dark.

    John Howe, the managing director at Michelin for Ireland and United Kingdom says that the tyres which are Electric Vehicles can enhance the battery range allowing the drivers to travel further at every charge but can also last longer on the electric car than the standard tyre.

    There is research which has also revealed that the increase for battery range has been viewed by the respondents as a huge benefit of the tyres that are Electric Vehicle specific with the second most important benefit proving to be tyres that are Electric Vehicle specific last a lot longer than the standard tyres.

    Howe has also said that a huge deal of innovation and research goes into the production of a tyre which can increase the range of the electric cars.

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    It requires incorporation of many new tyre technologies for lowering rolling resistance, increasing efficiency and optimization of the handling characteristics of the electric cars.

    However, to get the most of an Electric Vehicle, drivers should ensure that they are going to make use of every opportunity available to them.

    The electric cars have been notoriously faster off line than the diesel or petrol equivalents, but it has been wise to limit the full throttle accelerations to not only stay safer on the winter roads but also for extending the range of the Electric Vehicles. Wherever possible, keep the speed under the 60 mph, as speed increases, drage and rolling resistance increases too.

  • Electric Bikes to be converted from the traditional ICE

    Tomy Huang who is the president director of PT Trimentari Niaga said that motorcycle aftermarkets parts producer has capacity for converting thousands of the motorcycles from the traditional ICE into the electric bikes monthly.

    This has been explained during the electric vehicle funday event at Central Jakarta

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    Huang said that BRT has been able to convert thousands every month. Because they are not a motor garage but a manufacturer. They can reach thousands as they produce their own spare parts.

    The company which had been initially established as a provider of motorcycle racing aftermarket parts for close to 2 decades now and has 150 network dealerships across the 27 provinces in the country of Indonesia that will be able to offering electric motor conversion kits to be installed in the traditional motorcycles.

    They are saying that they will grow that to the 1000 existing networks by the month of June of 2023. Huang who had asserted that Electric Vehicle manpower is going to wear the yellow uniforms.

    Huang has asserted that BRT services are only going to need roughly the 45 minutes for swapping an electric motor into the motorcycle with the fuel-based engines.

    When it comes to early stages, the company had started with 3 days for converting a traditional motorcycle for a fully-functional motorcycle.

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    When it comes the cost, he explained that the motorcycles under 115cc engine capacity is going to be equipped with the 2-kw motor which is going to cost as much as Rp7.5 million but is going to exclude the battery which is going to be subject to the government subsidy program in near future. The cost of the assembling electric components and all the paperwork for the electric motorcycle which is going to reach Rp9.65 million. It is important to keep the electric vehicles

  • Australian electric vehicles conundrum as trees may be razed for EV factory.

    Electric Vehicles are where the world have put its hopes to better the climate situation. However, in an unfortunate turn of events, Melbourne Councils are going to chop down the trees and remove vegetation from the footpaths for making way for an Australia Post’s new fleet of the environment friendly electric delivery vehicles which has angered many residents who say that they want green spaces a lot more. Australian electric vehicles to go through this conundrum.

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    Stonnington ,Merri-bek and Darebin have removed the tree branches along with the footpaths as a response to the Australia Post to roll out 500 electric trikes and replaces the old motorbikes in the month of May in Victoria.

    The trikes carry thrice more than the traditional motorbike. They even have a capacity for over 100 small parcels and goes till 1200 letters helping the Australia Post meeting an increased demand for the parcel delivery that is driven by the online shopping boom which began during the coronavirus pandemic.

    The spokesperson said that Australia Post had not asked the councils into cutting down the trees but it did request the removal of the vegetation for clear footpaths.

    He has said that it is important that we have a clear access to the properties so we can keep delivering the letters of the customers and parcels efficiently and ensuring a safe environment for the team members.

    In the letter which is sent to the Coburg resident, Australia Post requested the removal of the branches and bushes from the home of a person.

    Australia Post has been changing the delivery mode and now they are using the electric delivery mode due to dimensions.

    Australia Post threatened for stopping the delivering mail for the resident if the overhanging branches and bushes had not removed.

    There is a need for the resolution of the issues before the growth of the electric vehicle market in the country.