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DOE, General Motors and MathWorks launch EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. Mississippi State University. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Georgia Tech.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

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(Toyota’s other manufacturing plant in Mexico is Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC), which builds Tacoma pickup trucks and Tacoma truck beds. Once Corolla production begins in Mexico in 2019, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. The new facility in Mexico and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc.

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Future Cars: Concept EVs for 2023 and Beyond

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This is a truly American vehicle as it is designed, engineered and will be built in the United States at a factory in Tunica, Mississippi. The first car, the plug-in hybrid sport coupe Polestar 1, was released in 2019; the Polestar 2 compact SUV with a 270-mile electric range came to market in early 2021. We vote “build it!”

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Nissan hybrids and PHEVs US-bound, 3-row electric SUV for 2028

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EVs set to be built around then in Mississippi will incorporate that strategy. That strategy, being introduced this year, is set to reduce powertrain costs by about 30% versus 2019. Nissan may soon have another chance to build that volume; a successor to the current Leaf is due in 2026 or 2027.

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Nikola Motor unveils prototype Class 8 fuel cell range-extended electric truck, plans for H2 fueling network

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Fitzgerald, an investor in NMC, will build the first 5,000 trucks, and continue building trucks in the future. Nikola Founder and CEO Trevor Milton said that the company will build a network of 364 hydrogen fueling stations to support the rollout of the trucks. The location will be announced sometime around the middle of 2017.

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