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General Motors increases EV investment by 75% through 2025

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General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions. ” GM announced a while back in March 2020 that it would commit $20 billion to EV and AV programs from 2020 to 2025.

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GM to boost EV and AV investments 75% to $35B through 2025; new battery plants

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General Motors will increase its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion, representing a 75% increase from its initial commitment announced prior to the pandemic. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra. The company now expects its first-half EBIT-adjusted will be between $8.5

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

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Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. One of the first uses of bidirectional charging followed the Great East Japan T?hoku

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Top 10 green cars at Frankfurt

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Concept – The VW Up doesn’t make its debut until next year, but it has already been surpassed in the innovation stakes by the lithium-ion battery powered e-Up which will have a top speed of 84mph, move from 0-62mph in 11.3seconds and have a range of about 80miles. Volkswagen e-up! It is set to debut in 2013.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Policy (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Alan Ohnsman April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. , the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S. policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business. "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. " He studied Sony and Sanyo patents and took apart batteries to understand how they were made, a "process that involved much trial and error," he says.

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