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Kia will beat Rivian and Tesla into affordable mass-market EVs

Baua Electric

Although Rivian and Tesla are making headlines with planned expansions into mass-market electric vehicles, Kia is set to launch two affordable EVs of its own. More affordable EVs are coming Rivian unveiled its highly anticipated R2 electric SUV Thursday. It will include a tri-motor R3X , Rivian’s first high-performance compact EV.

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Volkswagen’s Scout EV truck will not use its MEB platform: ‘This is an AMERICAN truck’

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A Scout enthusiast recently met up with the Scout Motors team and shared a few interesting tidbits about the upcoming all-electric pickup truck. in Illinois—recently spent an afternoon with the Scout Motors team. The platform must be affordable and relatively easy to produce to reach Volkswagen’s goal for Scout.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I and a Ph.D.

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Rivian (RIVN) set to score extra incentives for bringing R2 production to Illinois

Baua Electric

After announcing that R2 production will kick off in Illinois, Rivian (RIVN) is poised to earn additional incentives with plans to expand its Normal EV plant. Meet Rivian’s more affordable R2 electric SUV Rivian unveiled its compact, more affordable R2 electric SUV last week at its new Laguna showroom. Rivian family.

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Transportation Electrification Accord sets out multi-sector roadmap to electrified future

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Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. —Britta Gross, director, General Motors Advanced Vehicle Commercialization Policy.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). General Motors.

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Ford F-150 Lightning, Rivian R1T, Hyundai Ioniq 5 land on AutoTrader’s ‘Best New Cars for 2022’

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. “While electric vehicles, driver-assist technology, and fun, efficient, affordable gasoline-powered cars aren’t necessarily new things for car shoppers, the sheer amount of choices drivers now have really stands out as new for 2022,” Executive Editor for Autotrader Brian Moody said. Credit: Ford Motor Company).

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