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Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments

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Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. But the company has also announced that it would be “re-timing and resizing some investments.”

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KIA: Double-digit enlargement in Q2

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.” “Our production is up and we’ve been able to sell that because our sales are up year over year, but we’re not building dealer stock,” he stated. Quote: “The entire country needs additional charging infrastructure no matter what the standard the OEMs are using.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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parking and lane access incentives, building codes), utility actions (e.g., charging infrastructure incentives, preferential charging rates), and public charging availability. The regional electric vehicle share leaders tended to have greater public charging infrastructure than their regional average.

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GM extends Chevy Bolt production delay, NHTSA closes battery fire investigation

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Owners were advised not to park near other cars , not to park indoors, and to limit their state of charge to 90 percent in some instances. However, GM has now extended the Bolt production halt for a third time, stating earlier today that it would not re-enter manufacturing until early April.

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At CES, legacy automakers scramble to keep up in AI arms race – ET Auto

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“We’re changing the IT infrastructure, we’re changing actually our manufacturing line so that we can use over-the-air updates in the manufacturing lines. We’re also changing how our dealers are doing it and everything,” Oestberg said. As of Wednesday, GM still had not delivered a fix.

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Goa draft EV policy 2021 subsidising 11,000 EVs for 5 years 

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The state government had also announced that it would be waiving off registration charges for the first 10,000 electric 2-wheelers. To establish a wide network of charging stations and swappable battery stations, and develop a publicly owned database of the same. Charging stations support . Utility subsidies . KTCL) bus depots.

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MintList public sale platform makes bid for sellers in Ontario

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The method starts with dealers taking a form of pictures and answering a suite of questions that display the situation in their car, Plank stated. The whole idea is to vet the cars enough for the dealers that they can bid comfortably on that car, and they know roughly what their reconditioning [costs] are going to be,” Plank stated.

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