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Valeo acquires electric supercharger business from Controlled Power

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With this move, Valeo becomes the first automotive supplier to offer its customers a range of electric superchargers. Unlike exhaust-driven turbochargers, electric superchargers are driven by an electric motor. Highly efficient at low engine revolutions, electric superchargers make it possible to downsize engines.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

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Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.

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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

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will acquire low-speed electric vehicle manufacturer Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM), a wholly-owned Fargo, N.D.-based Since the company was established in 1998, it has placed more than 45,000 electric-powered vehicles on the road worldwide. Click to enlarge. Polaris Industries Inc. based subsidiary of Chrysler Group LLC.

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Lordstown Motors Goes Bust

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Though the writing was already on the wall for the Ohio-based electric vehicle manufacturer. From The Review : All told, since Burns started unloading shares in the company in November 2021, he took away about $66 million. On Tuesday, Lordstown Motors Corp. LMC) officially filed for bankruptcy and sued Foxconn. The filing with the U.S.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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Additionally, Seattle was recently ranked the third most electric vehicle-friendly city in the US by ChargePoint, the largest electric vehicle charging network. Members can then return the car to any legal parking space on the street, including for free at meters and within residential permit zones in the Home Area.

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Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

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KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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On the other hand, the industry is facing some truly momentous, and momentously expensive, decisions on everything from powertrain choices to emerging markets; and for OEMs to count on a US sales bubble like in the last cycle—artificially-induced to begin with—to help fund all that is wishful thinking at best.