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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Here we are again. After gathering the year's new EV offerings for a week of intense back-to-back scrutiny, rigorous driving, and long hours of charging, a Hyundai has come out on top. Following last year's win by the Ioniq 5, that model's new sedan sibling, the Ioniq 6, motors away with the top prize this year. Add strong showings by the Genesis Electrified GV70 and the Kia EV6 GT, and a picture starts to form: When it comes to EVs playing in the broad main swath of the market, the Hyundai-Kia-Genesis group is clearly out in front.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Mary Barra and Elon Musk may be intense business rivals, but they sounded like old pals as they chatted on Twitter this month about a deal that could help remove one of the biggest barriers to electric vehicle ownership: not enough chargers.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.

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Monday, June 26, 2023

At the end of last year, nearly 5,500 full-size zero-emission transit buses were on the road, on order or funded in the U.S., a 66% increase over the previous year.

Including the newly announced grants, the investments from the 2021 infrastructure law now total “more than $3.3 billion in American transit buses and the infrastructure that supports them over two years of funding,” said White House Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu during a White House press call on Thursday. Landrieu added that the grants also “put money into training the...Read More

Thursday, June 22, 2023

A deep-pocketed US government program designed to finance futuristic energy businesses is issuing a conditional $9.2 billion loan to Ford Motor Co. for the construction of three battery factories. The enormous loan — by far the biggest government backing for a US automaker since the bailouts in the 2009 financial crisis — marks a watershed moment for President Joe Biden’s aggressive industrial policy meant to help American manufacturers catch up to China in green technologies.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

DETROIT (AP) — Electric vehicle maker Rivian says it will follow General Motors and Ford and join Tesla’s charging network next year.

The startup truck, SUV and delivery van maker says Tuesday that like GM and Ford, it also will adopt Tesla’s charging connector, another step toward making it the industry standard.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

MILAN, June 20 (Reuters) - Carmaker Stellantis (STLAM.MI) and iPhone assembler Foxconn (2317.TW) have created a 50-50 joint venture to design and sell semiconductors for the automotive industry from 2026.

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Monday, June 12, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $192 million in new funding for recycling batteries from consumer products, launching an advanced battery research and development (R&D) consortium, and the continuation of the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize, which began in 2019. With the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and stationary energy storage projected to increase the lithium battery market by as much as ten-fold by 2030, it is essential to invest in sustainable, reduced-cost recycling of consumer batteries in support of a secure, resilient, and circular...Read More

Thursday, June 8, 2023

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- Toyota is expanding its operations in Washtenaw County with the creation of a new nearly $50 million battery testing lab.

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