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EV tax credit leases, cold-weather charging, PHEVs not plugged in: Today’s Car News

2022 Toyota Prius PrimeThe EV tax credit continues to take form, and it may mean cheaper leases. Washington and Oregon join California in banning EV-only cars by 2035. EV drivers are charging more in the winter, but are plug-in hybrid drivers charging often enough? And what can we see in all of our past Best Car To Buy winners? This and more as we wrap up some holiday…

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EV tax credit loophole may cut lease payments for EVs made overseas

2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV and EV production startsThe U.S. Treasury Department confirmed Thursday that buyers can effectively bypass both the American final assembly and critical-mineral requirements for electric vehicles—if those EVs are leased. That means, according to Reuters, starting Jan. 1, automakers selling EVs with final assembly outside North America may be eligible for a…

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What cold weather means to most EV drivers: More charging

Magna e4 technology demonstrator (Jaguar I-Pace)It’s well established that electric cars lose some range in cold weather, but for drivers that generally means more charging rather than less driving, according to a new report from battery analysis firm Recurrent. Recurrent’s primary business is producing battery health reports for used EVs, but the company analyzes data used to produce those…

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BMW aims to build solid-state EV batteries under license

2023 BMW i7 xDrive60BMW has licensed solid-state battery cell designs and manufacturing processes from Colorado-based Solid Power, taking the partnership between the two companies up a notch. The automaker, which began partnering with Solid Power in 2017, will install copies of the firm’s solid-state cell pilot production lines at its facilities in Germany, and Solid…

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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy: Past winners

2011 Nissan Leaf prototypeFrom the Nissan Leaf to the Lucid Air, with the Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model 3 among the many formative models in between, our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners each year have offered not just what we think you should buy, but a glimpse of the future. Over the years, we’ve changed the requirements for the award as the…

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Report: Tesla Giga Shanghai To Take Another Production Break In January

Is it a sign that Tesla entered an oversupply stage right now?

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Tesla Owner Shares Video & Story After 30-Car Winter-Weather Pileup

While the car was declared a total loss by the insurance company, the Tesla driver wasn’t injured.

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Audi plans to make EVs at all its global factories before 2030

Audi E-Tron GT production at Böllinger Höfe, Germany, factoryAudi will build EVs at all of its global plants before 2030 ahead of a planned phase-out of internal-combustion models, the automaker said Thursday in a press release. The automaker will introduce only all-electric models globally beginning in 2026, and aims to phase out production of internal-combustion vehicles by 2033, but prior to that EVs and…

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Report: Tesla Suspends Production In Shanghai

The company’s largest EV plant will return to work in 2023.

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US West Coast aligns to ban new gas cars by 2035

SeattleThe entire U.S. West Coast now aims to end sales of new gasoline cars by 2035. Specifically, Washington and Oregon recently enacted rules requiring that new vehicles be mostly emission-free by 2035. These plans, which will permit continued sales of plug-in hybrids that also run on gasoline, align with goals already in place in California. Both…