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Ford adding hybrid F-150 & Mustang, PHEV Transit, new BEV SUV by 2020; $700M for Flat Rock for EV production; cancels $1.6B Mexico plant

Green Car Congress

A Transit Custom plug-in hybrid available in 2019 in Europe engineered to help reduce operating costs in even the most congested streets. In addition, in New York and several major US cities, Ford is testing a fleet of 20 Transit Connect hybrid taxi and van prototypes in some of the world’s most demanding traffic conditions.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

The next question is about the robo taxi unveil. You know, if we have a super sentient humanoid robot that can follow you indoors and that you can’t escape, you know, we’re talking Terminator-level risk, then yeah I’d be uncomfortable with, you know, if there’s not some meaningful level of influence over how that is deployed.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Link to the 2019 list (from there you can get to older ones). Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! in 2019 to 4% in 2020. The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. It *is* literal madness to keep doing it.

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