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The L7, IM Motors’ first model, has been updated with its starting price cut by RMB 38,900, or 11.5 percent. (Image credit: IM Motors) SAIC Motor Corp’s electric vehicle (EV) arm has launched the 2024 L7 sedan with a significantly lower starting price and upgraded features, at a time when competition in China’s EV industry is intensifying. IM Motors rolled out the refresh of its flagship sedan on February 24, offering four variants with starting prices of RMB 299,900 ($41,700), RMB 349,900, RMB 389,900 and RMB 419,900, respectively. The model was previously offered in three versions with starting prices of…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! One of the big reasons to get away from the city is to see the magic of the night sky in all of its glory. Away from the bright lights, you can see things like the Milky Way, the zodiacal glow, and even a cool spot in the sky called the gegenschein if you get to a dark enough place. If you can find a nice national park or other tourist destination to check out during the day, you’ve got double the reasons to…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! To many readers, what I’m about to get into might sound bizarre. After all, EVs often copy (at least in part) things that Tesla pioneered. So, why would anyone want an EV with an unnecessary start/stop button? But, for me, it’s not that simple. I’ve driven some Teslas, but I’ve never owned one. At first, they were out of my budget, and later, when they became affordable, the most affordable models weren’t appealing to me. Elon’s authoritarian conservative politics aside, I really just wasn’t…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! David Havasi and I both have 2019 Tesla Model 3s. He’s got a Long Range one and I’ve got a Standard Range Plus (SR+). We recently went to our local Tesla store and tested out the new Tesla Model 3 Highland. (Side note: David set up this store, and this whole region, when he worked at Tesla — between 2012 and 2019.) The overarching takeaway: the new Model 3 is faaaaaaaaaaaar better than ours are. The biggest differences are in the suspension and sound…

The Yangwang U9’s powertrain delivers up to 1,306 horsepower, allowing the vehicle to sprint from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 2.36 seconds. (Image credit: Yangwang) BYD’s (OTCMKTS: BYDDF) premium brand Yangwang has launched the U9 electric supercar, the second production vehicle from the new brand after the U8 off-road SUV. Yangwang rolled out the U9 at a launch event in Shanghai today, with only one version of the 2-seat model available at a starting price of RMB 1.68 million ($233,500), higher than the RMB 1.098 million price tag for the U8. The Yangwang U9 measures 4,966 mm in…

Hyundai IONIQ 5 (left) and IONIQ 6 (right) at Tesla Supercharger (Source: Hyundai) There’s a loophole in the stricter IRA federal tax credit that only applies $3750 rebates on North American-built cars and separately $3750 on domestic batteries. For whatever reason, all EVs get the full $7500 applied to leases, however. So that has more people leasing EVs than ever before. The number of electric vehicle models that can be leased for less than an average monthly lease cost of $400/month has grown by 50% since last August. The list now includes nine models with factory offers that rival lease…

As EV charging infrastructure expands, lawmakers in the Kentucky legislature have introduced a bill to “protect” gas stations, local television station WKYT reports. House Bill 581 seeks to prevent zoning authorities from treating EV charging differently from gasoline dispensing. That means any location considered suitable for EV charging would also have to host gas stations. “For an ordinance to say that you can build an electric charging station, but you can’t build a gas station or a retail gas station, we feel like that is discriminatory,” Republican state representative Ken Upchurch said in an interview with WKYT. But with gas…

FinDreams said it will offer safer, more reliable batteries for electric two-wheelers, after a recent deadly accident revived concerns about the safety of electric two-wheeler batteries. (Image credit: CnEVPost) BYD’s (OTCMKTS: BYDDF) battery manufacturing unit FinDreams Battery said it will leverage its passenger car battery technology to develop safer two-wheeler batteries, after a recent fire killed more than a dozen people. FinDreams will apply its passenger car research results to the two-wheeler segment and increase its R&D investment in the two-wheeler industry, the company said in a statement today. The company will collaborate with various parties to develop safe batteries…

Updated versions of BYD’s Han and Tang are poised to take the price war further into the mid- to high-end EV market. (Image credit: BYD) BYD (OTCMKTS: BYDDF) will launch updated versions of the Han and Tang, the flagship models of its Dynasty lineup, in 3 days, in a move that sets to take the price war further into the mid-to-high-end electric vehicle (EV) market. The launch event for the Glory Edition models of the Han sedan and Tang SUV will begin at 3 pm Beijing time on February 28, BYD announced today on Weibo. The models will come in…

The best way I’ve found to reduce or eliminate car usage in a city is with an electric bike. But in the winter, nights come at you early, and it’s more important than ever to ensure that as cyclists, we’re visible to the biggest danger on the roads: car drivers. I’ve been testing out a new headlamp called the BioLite HeadLamp 800 Pro that isn’t specifically meant for cyclists, but has proven perfect for me as a way to add both front and rear LED lighting to pretty much any helmet. That’s a major part of this series, often finding…