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Ford cutting F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds

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“Their intentions were to build 180,000-plus units. Right now, we’re looking at 55,000 units they’re gonna build. Admittedly, Lawler says Ford may have pushed capacity past the point of demand when it started building EVs. “We definitely need to work to match capacity with demand.

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BMW Connected North America makes its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016; powered by Azure

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BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. Service Fabric enables the automaker to build individual mobility graphs with personalized data and real-time context. Open Mobility Cloud.

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Ford exec rings alarm bell on EV charging and battery raw materials challenges

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According to Field, some of these constraints are inadequate charging networks and the limited availability of battery raw materials. Field shared his comments at an EV conference in London. The post Ford exec rings alarm bell on EV charging and battery raw materials challenges appeared first on TESLARATI. Ford Motor Co.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. kW—about three times the load.

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Show me the money! Ford targets Tesla Model 2, MG4 and BYD Dolphin with new small electric car line-up

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Facing multi-billion dollar annual losses from its electric vehicle product roll-out, Ford has revealed it is going to build its own ground-up smaller and cheaper EVs to tackle the Tesla Model 2 and Chinese brands head-on. In Australia that charge is led by the MG4, BYD Dolphin and GWM Ora. “We have to fix this problem.

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Volkswagen’s Pablo Di Si: Generation to get ‘again to fundamentals’

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and believes that its electrical cars will backup the corporate build up its marketplace proportion in what’s turning into one of the crucial German automaker’s maximum notable markets. You simply did a line of broker conferences with the VW community. We’re getting to form some systems. Is it floorplanning?

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THINK and AeroVironment to Pursue Projects to Promote Fast-charging Infrastructure; THINK Picks Enerdel as Sole Battery Provider for US

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(AV), a leading developer and supplier of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, to pursue demonstration and commercial projects using AV’s level III fast-charge system and the THINK City electric vehicle to jump-start the development of fast-charge infrastructure in the United States. Earlier post.)