2026 California Regulations for Battery Electric Vehicles
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2026 California Regulations for Battery Electric Vehicles

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) hold a Workshop on October 13 2021 to discuss and update the proposed regulations for Vehicle homologation, including Electric Vehicles and their Battery requirement.

This article summarises only the BEV topics including the Full Electric Vehicles and the FCEV. It also includes the Battery and Electric part of the PHEV, but does not detail the Emissions for the ICE

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The Electric AUDI RS Q e-tron in Dakar: IC Engine rechargeable 🤔
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The Electric AUDI RS Q e-tron in Dakar: IC Engine rechargeable 🤔

Surprising choice of AUDI for their Electric Vehicle entering the 2022 Dakar Rally. The Audi RS Q e-tron will be an EV powered by a Battery that will be charged… from an Engine

How to call this? An Hybrid? Well rather an EV with a Range Extender as the PowerTrain is only Electric while the ICE support only the Battery recharge. Let’s summarise what we know about this AUDI Futuristic Prototype

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Q1 2021 Battery Market Overview
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Q1 2021 Battery Market Overview

China is recovering from the pandemic and Electric Vehicle and Battery market are back to growth in Q1 2021. Discover how much GWh of batteries were produced in 2021. Find the Analysis of Roland Zenn of the Lithium Battery Market between for the first quarter of 2021 with LG. Panasonic, CATL, Samsung DI, etc.

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Porsche and MAHLE 3D Printed Piston
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Porsche and MAHLE 3D Printed Piston

Porsche and MAHLE  have teamed up to work on 3D printed pistons for the Porsche GT2 RS. If 3D printing in general (and 3D printed-piston) have been widely used during the past years in Motorsport but it is the 1st time that additive printed pistons would be used for a « commercial » supercar

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Tesla Model S Plaid+
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Tesla Model S Plaid+

Refreshed versions of Tesla Model S: 3 versions (powertrains), the most powerful being the Plaid+ with tri-Electric Motors (1100 hp); from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 2.1s; 840 km Range; 10 Teraflops of processing Power for Gaming

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