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Lucid expands its Arizona plant to prepare for Gravity production

Teslarati

Electric vehicle (EV) startup Lucid Motors is expanding its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, as it prepares to enter production of the Gravity SUV later this year. The Gravity SUV is also expected to feature a 900-volt architecture and a 0-60 MPH acceleration of under 3.5

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800-Volt EV Charging: The ?Other Palliative for Range Anxiety ???

Cars That Think

The Hyundai Ioniq5 and Kia EV6 that I recently tested—a pair of wildly impressive, high-design EVs—take a different approach to solving range anxiety: an 800-volt battery architecture that delivers some of the fastest charging in the EV game, and unheard of at these price levels. As noted, the Hummer costs more than $110,000.

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. All these years later, Martinson and his wife both drive Teslas and their daughter drives a Chevrolet Volt PHEV.

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NTSB 3rd investigative update on Boeing 787 battery fire in Boston; battery not overcharged

Green Car Congress

NTSB said that examination of the flight recorder data from the JAL B-787 airplane indicated that the APU battery did not exceed its designed voltage of 32 volts. On Tuesday, the group will convene in Arizona to test and examine the battery charger and download nonvolatile memory from the APU controller. ( Earlier post.)

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The EV Project Expands to Texas; Overall Value of Charging Infrastructure Project Now at $230M

Green Car Congress

announced its second expansion of The EV Project, resulting in a charging infrastructure network in sixteen cities located in six states—Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Tennessee and Texas—as well as the District of Columbia. ECOtality, Inc.

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Chrysler Group launches second phase of PHEV minivan project

Green Car Congress

Other deployments are in Arizona, North Carolina and Michigan. Charge times are two-to-four hours at 220 volts with a Level 2 charge cord unit, and eight-to-15 hours at 110 volts with a Level 1 charge unit. The plug-in hybrids will be subjected to temperature extremes and variations of drive cycles.

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Electric Volt proves it can take the heat

Green Cars News

While Mitsubishi and MINI might have been busy testing their electric cars in very cold conditions (see story), GM is doing the opposition by testing the performance of its Chevrolet Volt in extreme heat. The Volt-also known as the Vauxhall/Opel Ampera-has been proving itself in the baking heat of GM’S desert proving grounds in [.].

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