17 Mar 2019 | Kona EV Production Drops, Second Life For Audi Batteries and Answers To Ques-tion Of The Week
Hyundai Slashes Kona Electric Production, But Why? | More Fastned Charging Stations Coming To Uk | Volkswagen Passat Gte Plug-In Hybrid Returns With Upgrades | Second Use Batteries For Audi
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Sunday 17th March 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through every EV story I could find today, and picked out the best ones to save you time.
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HYUNDAI SLASHES KONA ELECTRIC PRODUCTION, BUT WHY?
- Tom Molougney for InsideEVs.com: "I was pleased to see Hyundai Kona Electric monthly production numbers raising significantly last fall, and eclipsing the 5,300-unit mark for both November and December of 2018. It was starting to look like Hyundai was going to really try to meet the global demand for this long-range, affordable small crossover. Then came 2019. Hyundai produced only 3,074 Kona Electrics in January and then a paltry 2,168 in February. Even if you combine production of those two months, they don’t add up to November or December’s production total. So, what gives?"
https://insideevs.com/hyundai-reduce-kona-electric-production/
MORE FASTNED CHARGING STATIONS COMING TO UK
- "Dutch company Fastned has very ambitious goals to build a European network of 1,000 fast charging stations and is already approaching 10% of the plan, having 88 stations up and running." Says Mark Kane for InsideEVs: "Most recently, Fastned won a second tender in the UK for 5 more charging stations, which will be included in the network."
- Fastned said: "Fastned will build and operate five fast charging stations (hubs) for electric vehicles across the region. Each station will initially house two 50 kW fast chargers (known as “rapid” chargers in the UK) that will deliver 100% renewable electricity."
https://insideevs.com/more-fastned-charging-stations-coming-to-uk/
VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT GTE PLUG-IN HYBRID RETURNS WITH UPGRADES
- Volkswagen Passat GTE specs:
- 0 kWh battery (31% more energy than the previous generation – 9.9 kWh)
- up to 55 km (34 miles) of WLTP range; up to 70 km (43.5 miles) of NEDC range (20 km or 40% more than the previous generation)
- system output: 160 kW (218 PS) from 1.4 TSI gasoline turbocharged engine (110 kW / 150 PS) and 85 kW / 115 PS electric motor.
- 6 kW on-board charger (full recharge in around four hours)
SECOND USE BATTERIES FOR AUDI
- "Factory tugs in Audi's Ingolstadt factory now sport the latest in second-hand lithium-ion batteries." Says Eric at Green Car Reports: "With automakers on the hook in jurisdictions around the world to take back and properly reuse or recycle all the batteries they install in electric cars, various automakers are experimenting with different ways to reuse the depleted batteries that come back from their old electric cars—from using them in new charging stations to selling them to wind farms, to installing them on the roofs of solar-powered apartment complexes. Now Audi is installing them on fork lifts and the tugs it uses to move parts around its main factory in Ingolstadt, Germany. Audi fits 24 of the e-tron's 36 battery modules into an identically sized tray to give the tugs and fork lifts up to perhaps between 30 and 50 kwh of battery capacity, depending on how much the cells degraded in their original cars. With charging hardware like that in a car, the tugs and fork lifts can be driven to a charging station in the factory and plugged in, saving countless man-hours on the factory line and clearing out space that the large, old lead-acid battery chargers consumed."
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
DAVID FINCH
“Fossil fuels are history. Electric’s the future”
“Burning liquid dinosaurs to make your car go? How prehistoric!”
“Breathe easy, no smells at my rear. I drive electric”
ARILD GEIR SKAALSVEEN
"Go with the sun, the wind and the rain... It's electric."
ROBYN EDWARDS
The End of the ICE age is nigh.
ACDC Let there be Charge.
NICO'S JANSEN
"Live the dream, drive on sunshine 🌄". It's a positive message and encompasses the essence for me and my fiancee to go and drive EVs. Big sun right in the middle of the shirt.
JOHN FRUHWIRTH
"Fast Forward Electro-Magnetically"
JAMIE PRIEST
"“I’m not longer ripped off by big oil, drive electric”
JOSHUA PRITT
"Hey Auto Manufacturers, I'll never drive a gas car again. Electric only for me from now on! #NoPlugNoDeal"
STEVE PEACE, TEXAS
MPG LOL
PATRICK REYNOLDS
"I'm Plugged In, What About You"
MARTY YOUNG
"Ride the Current...Drive Electric"
GLEN MASON
‘I’m Charging the Future’
HOWDY
Real EVs have plugs.
BOB COOK
Picture of a home “mains’ outlet
Slogan below, This is my gas station”
MIA OPPELSTRUP
"And remember---there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid!"
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