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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

Baua Electric

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. If all goes according to plan, Honda will produce in-house batteries at the plant, which would be the company’s second EV plant in North America.

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Mitsubishi Mirage to Be Discontinued by 2025

The Truth About Cars

While the Mirage of the 1990s was fairly reliable, affordable, and even made a great little tuner car if you happened to be a Mitsubishi or Diamond-Star Motors fan with a penchant for forced induction, the current generation basically exists so Mitsubishi could adhere to emissions rules that would allow the vehicle to be manufactured in Thailand.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured. Today’s CAFE standards are supposed to address fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been taking place over the last few decades. Meanwhile, simply gutting U.S.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Chevrolet Equinox – affordable mid-sized SUV set to go EV in 2023. Now it has big plans… Fisker Pear – electric urban SUV is now taking pre-orders in America ahead of 2024 deliveries.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

But instead of just de facto banning the competition from giving Americans access to affordable hot new EVs, the US should instead try making affordable hot new EVs itself. It offers tax credits to EV purchasers, as long as those EVs include domestically-sourced components and are assembled in North America.

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