Cars That Think

JANUARY 9, 2023

Before I met BMW’s iVision Dee at a press preview event in Germany— prior to a public reveal at CES in Las Vegas last week—I’d never seen a car blush, let alone had one make me blush. The body’s 240 laser-cut, Kindle-style “e-ink” panels let the BMW transform instantly to one of 32 exterior colors.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 9, 2023

Before I met BMW’s iVision Dee at a press preview event in Germany— prior to a public reveal at CES in Las Vegas last week—I’d never seen a car blush, let alone had one make me blush. The body’s 240 laser-cut, Kindle-style “e-ink” panels let the BMW transform instantly to one of 32 exterior colors.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

At launch, the entire 2025 Polestar 3 lineup will have dual-motor all-wheel drive, with an output of 489 hp and 620 lb-ft of torque, and a 111-kwh battery pack. It measures about 193 inches long—making it a couple inches shorter than the BMW iX , or about the same length as the Audi Q8 E-Tron. Polestar has said that U.S.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the proposed changes to the federal EV tax credit that has flown a bit under the radar is also one of the most political and protectionist in nature. Effective January 1, 2022, electric vehicles with final assembly* (see definition at the end) in China would no longer qualify for IRC 30D (federal EV tax credit).

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2023

. “It’s a complete setback for everything the United States is trying to do to build up its own EV industry and battery supply chain.” “And for trucks and SUVS — subject to the 25 percent Chicken Tax — they invested in factories inside the U.S.” market cars.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

“China now is building a couple of massive plants where they’re going to build the cars in Mexico and they think that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border,” he said. BMW Group Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico Mexico already builds many U.S.-bound bound EVs but buys few of them.

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