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GM to cease manufacturing in Australia by 2017

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The company will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and significantly reduce its engineering operations in Australia by the end of 2017. Holden will continue to have a presence in Australia beyond 2017, consisting of a national sales company, a national parts distribution center and a global design studio.

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New Argonne-developed tool helps car buyers compare electric-drive and traditional vehicles

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The new guidance tool helps consumers compare the cost of owning different electric-drive powertrain technologies, as well as the environmental impact of these vehicles. Midwest EVOLVE launched in early 2017 with more than 60 partners, including automakers, utilities, state agencies, municipalities, dealerships, and dealer associations.

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FCA US and Aurora to partner to develop and to deploy self-driving commercial vehicles

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all Aurora-powered vehicles carry a common set of self-driving hardware and run the same self-driving software, allowing Aurora and its partners to benefit from the collective scale of all participants on the platform by reducing the cost of the hardware and allowing the software to learn from the combined experience of all vehicles on the platform.

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California. million unit uptick in 5 years. ZEV sales increased 29.1%

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How the Chevy Bolt EV became GM’s 1.8 billion dollar problem

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GM advised customers to do the following: Customers should, whether or not they received the current software update, return their vehicle to the 90% state of charge limitation using Hilltop Reserve mode (for 2017-2018 model years) or Target Charge Level (for 2019 model year) mode. 63,683 (52,403 in the U.S.

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Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production

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The University of Science and Technology of China team has developed a new material that can potentially help to reduce the cost of the production of solid-state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs.The new material such as lithium zirconium chloride offers less cost material and the required performance.

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

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Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. The Cash for Clunkers data is important because it showed how much people upgraded when they bought the new car—defined as the difference between the cost of the new car and the inflation-adjusted value of the old car.