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MAN eTGE battery-electric van to be mass-produced from July onwards

Green Car Congress

Providing a range of up to 160 kilometers and a payload of 950 to 1,700 kg, the electric MAN eTGE is suited for urban tasks, depending on the type approval (3.5 For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment.

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Polestar 7 to replace Polestar 2 in EV line-up to avoid Volkswagen Golf-like fate

Baua Electric

Unveiled in 2019, the Polestar 2 put the brand on a new path toward becoming an all-electric automaker. The Polestar 2 is the brand’s first fully electric vehicle after the Polestar 1, a hybrid with up to 78 miles of electric range. Polestar’s electric performance car fuses Swedish luxury into the compact EV segment.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”. So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come. But from the time Kempton and Letendre outlined the concept, potential users also feared losing money, through battery wear and tear.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

Polestar execs offered mixed messages about that—in a virtual press briefing, the head of design said everything was unique to the brand, as visualized in the Polestar Precept concept car shown at the Geneva Motor Show. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

EV Adoption

Honda of America plans to sell 2 fully electric SUVs in 2024, Based on GM’s Ultium Platform – Honda confirmed plans to sell two all-electric SUVs in the US for the 2024 model year, and it soon will offer hybrid gas-electric versions of its top-selling models. – March 10, via Forbes.

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