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Fiat 500e review, F-150 Lightning price cuts, BMW and Rimac: Today’s Car News

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Rimac is working on battery cells for future BMW EVs. And official Ford F-150 Lightning prices are heading back downward. The Fiat 500e is back, and we drove it in its element. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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BMW Landshut producing fuel cell drive components for small-series BMW i Hydrogen NEXT in 2022

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The BMW Group will pilot a small series of the BMW i Hydrogen NEXT fuel cell vehicle from 2022, based on the current BMW X5 and equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell e-drive. The BMW Group is building on its experience with fifth-generation e-drives to develop this vehicle. —Dr Andreas Wendt.

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BMW Group creates closed recycling loop for high-voltage batteries in China

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The BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture (BBA) has established a closed loop for reuse of the raw materials nickel, lithium and cobalt from high-voltage batteries that are no longer suitable for use in electric vehicles. Automated and precise dismantling of BMW high-voltage batteries at Huayou Recycling.

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BMW Group plans > €30B on future-oriented technologies up to 2025; all-electric 7 Series model coming

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The BMW Group plans to invest more than €30 billion up to 2025 in research and development to underscore its position as an innovation leader, said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, at the company’s Annual Accounts Press Conference in Munich. In this respect, we are quite clearly in the fast lane.

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Fiat 500e review, F-150 Lightning price cuts, BMW and Rimac: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

Rimac is working on battery cells for future BMW EVs. And official Ford F-150 Lightning prices are heading back downward. Ford is already reversing course on recent F-150 Lightning price hikes. The Fiat 500e is back, and we drove it in its element. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Privacy Policy.

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European Lithium executes binding lithium offtake agreement with BMW; advance payment of US$15M

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European Lithium signed a binding long term lithium offtake agreement via its wholly-owned Austrian subsidiary ECM Lithium AT GmbH with BMW to secure the company’s first offtake of battery grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from its Wolfsberg Lithium Project underground mine in Austria. Trial mining was succesfully undertaken by Boliden Contech.

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BMW CEO declares its EVs will soon be the ‘benchmark’ in charging, range, and pricing

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After previewing some of the technology on its “Neue Klasse” EV platform at CES last week, BMW’s CEO Oliver Zipse is not mixing words when speaking about the German automaker’s future in the EV market. Zipse was as bold to say that BMW’s next wave of EVs will be the industry benchmark in range, charging speeds, and pricing.

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