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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

Teslarati

Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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Germany’s auto industry – outrun by Tesla – to axe thousands more jobs

Baua Electric

Bosch, the world’s largest automotive supplier for Ford, GM, Toyota, VW, and BMW, among others, said last week that as many as 1,200 employers in its software and electronics division would be fired by the end of 2026, and that 80% of those cuts would take place at the Stuttgart-based headquarters in Germany. Get started here.

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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

In fact, it might not even be possible for the auto industry to produce that many EVs, although the rate of expansion is dizzying. Toyota Prius Prime PHEV – 14,275. Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV – 7,988. The post Personal: One in a Million first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. Behind the Numbers.

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China to invest more than USD 830 mn in solid-state battery research – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Those picked as potential participants in the project include battery makers CATL and Nio-backed WeLion New Energy Technology, said the person. Those picked as potential participants in the project include battery makers CATL and Nio-backed WeLion New Energy Technology, said the person. Geely declined to comment.

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Toyota unveils Driver Awareness Research Vehicle

Green Car Congress

DAR-V’s personalized information display on the side window. Toyota used the Los Angeles Auto Show as the forum at which to unveil a Driver Awareness Research Vehicle (DAR-V). At Toyota, our focus is not only on protecting people in case of an accident, but also on preventing that accident from happening in the first place.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

I say apparently as a PR person with Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, stated the following to me in a January 18 email: I can tell you that it is true, we were the best selling plug-in hybrid SUV last year in the US. Auto Industry Analyst. I can’t tell you our exact number but if they beat RAV it was very narrow.

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Forget the Milano EV – Alfa Romeo changes name to something non-Italian-sounding

Baua Electric

Of course, plenty of vehicles bear names of cities that have no connection whatsoever to their production sites (Kia Sorento and Rio, Hyundai Santa Fe and Tucson, Toyota Tacoma, Chevrolet Malibu, etc.), FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. but this issue is more about Italy vs. Stellantis than anything else.

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