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DOE awarding $7.4M to 7 projects for medium-and heavy-duty EV and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans

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Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network.

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2023 Rivian R1T Review - Got My Chips Cashed In

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& My tester had the $3,850 All-Terrain upgrade package, which replaces the standard 21” or optional 22” alloy wheels and low-profile tires with these 20” alloys and more aggressive Pirelli all-terrain tires. After all, being a full-time auto journalist doesn’t pay well enough to afford a vehicle like this.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

“That said, with increased adoption of batteries, alongside improvements in technologies, the [long-term] trend is likely to still be towards lower battery costs and increased affordability, as economies of scale take hold.”. Building a better supply chain will enable automakers not only to sell more EVs, but also to make them cleaner.

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The redesigned federal EV tax credit and other EV-related measures

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Some fear that the new rules will penalize startups such as Lucid and Rivian, which are selling pricey luxury vehicles, presumably as the first phase of an iterative strategy to work their way to more affordable EVs (as Tesla originally planned to do). Lucid’s sedans currently start at over $80,000, and Rivian’s pickups start at $72,500.