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A new bill called the Affordable Electric Vehicles for America Act would allow essentially all EVs in the US to qualify for the $7,500 tax credit, if passed.
The bill would establish a phase-in period for the battery sourcing and manufacturing requirements included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in August.
Foreign leaders from South Korea, Japan, and the EU have lobbied for provision changes, expressing concerns over unfair competitive advantages. According to reports, Hyundai and other automakers are looking for a delay for the battery sourcing and manufacturing provisions kicking in at the end of the year to give them time to build and scale production.
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A new study found that the week after the annual shift back to standard time sees a 16 percent increase in deer-vehicle collisions each year.
On average, around 2.1 million deer-vehicle collisions happen in the U.S. each year. These incidents are responsible for over $10 billion in economic losses as well as 59,000 human injuries and 440 human deaths.
The researchers found that deer-vehicle collisions are 14 times more frequent in the two hours after sunset than before sunset. Animals, of course, stick to their pattern no matter what human clocks say, going about their lives even as traffic patterns shift to an hour “earlier” and causing more driving at dusk.
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Energy and transportation experts say that with some planning, utilities are fully capable of handling more clean cars plugging in. Better yet, electric SUVs, trucks, and buses can strengthen the grid if deployed smartly.
Someday, millions of vehicles could use special bidirectional chargers to absorb energy when it’s plentiful and release it back to the grid as needed, helping utilities manage heatwaves and other spikes in demand. This vision rests on something called vehicle-to-grid technology, or V2G.
If much of the US fleet goes electric, the amount of battery storage available is enormous: The National Resources Defense Council estimates that the 14 million EVs expected to be on California’s roads by 2035 could power all the state’s homes for three days.
via Autoblog
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For decades, roadway safety efforts have focused on a single, dominant mission: Protect the people inside cars. But vehicle safety issues are very different now.
Car buyers who purchase an SUV or truck “to protect themselves” are turning safety into a zero-sum game, with pedestrians and cyclists paying the price. Buying a bigger car can be a rational choice for an individual or family. But when you scale that decision across an entire nation, it’s a recipe for carnage.
A 2015 federal study found that an SUV is two to three times more likely to kill a pedestrian than a car is. The ascent of SUVs increased pedestrian deaths, which hit a 40-year high in 2021. Cyclist deaths, meanwhile, rose 44 percent from 2010 to 2020.
via Slate
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Gig-economy workers are 4 times as likely as other drivers to use smartphone apps regularly while driving, a new survey from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows.
“The explosion of smartphone features and services has not only created new forms of driver distraction, but also a new group of rideshare and delivery drivers whose jobs require them to interact with their phones while they’re on the road,” IIHS President David Harkey said.
One possible reason could be that they’re more tempted to conduct other business or find ways to entertain themselves while driving because their jobs force them to spend so much time behind the wheel. Parents are also nearly 50 percent more prone to routinely making video calls, checking weather reports and other types of smartphone-enabled distractions than drivers without children 18 or younger, the survey found.
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By Ed Dubens, CEO/Founder of eDriving
We are seeing an increasing number of smartphone-based collision detection, personal SOS, and emergency response service solutions being launched across the globe.
A poor crash detection system can mistake a dropped or tossed phone for a crash. Even very competent algorithms frequently misread forceful braking and cornering, as well as merely moving the phone, as crashes.
To solve the need for low-speed collision detection and for drivers to receive live help in the event of an emergency in or out of their vehicle, eDriving partnered with Sfara & Bosch to provide a smartphone-integrated solution in 50 countries globally.
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By Ed Pierce, FMW Brand Acceleration
In this era of digital marketing, account-based marketing can deliver excellent branding and lead generation results.
However, the value of this customer-centric approach eludes many B2B organizations, including many in the fleet industry. The problem stems from the typical marketing and sales (or sales and marketing) structure.
While B2B marketing has been traditionally focused on identifying and communicating with “target markets” through appropriate media, messaging is usually based on an understanding of common needs.
In today’s effective integrated sales and marketing strategy, be sure to organize an integrated sales and marketing effort more tightly wound around a specific account.
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