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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

Green Car Congress

The plant, formerly the Michigan Truck Plant and the production site for Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigators SUVs, is one of three North American light truck plants Ford is retooling to build fuel-efficient global small cars in the coming years. The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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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 5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. Chevrolet Equinox – affordable mid-sized SUV set to go EV in 2023.

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Tesla Model 3 vs Kia EV6 vs Polestar 2 vs Hyundai Ioniq 5: Which one is the best EV in Australia?

EV Central

Granted, the recently-arrived Tesla Model Y makes just as much sense, but it wasn’t available as we were pulling this test together. In each instance we’ve chosen the most affordable options using a single electric motor for propulsion, although in the case of the Polestar it had options fitted. But there’s also a lot going on.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Cars That Think

The project was started in 2020 to build a smaller and more affordable system than those attempted previously, now made possible by advances in fixed-wing UAVs and miniaturized electronics. We had to start with a blank slate to develop a system that was small and light enough to fit on an inexpensive UAV.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

There is a green light that lights up on a panel placed in front of the operator then the correct torque has been achieved. Each trolley is kitted out with all the components that are required for making the bike. Affordable EV space is important to the company. Nothing slips, so nothing can be taken for granted.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Collaboration with several universities has led to a kit for integrating new chips into working computer systems.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? We need an economy electric car that we an afford, not that nonsense.

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