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Aptera and EVE Energy partner for 21700 NMC battery cells

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Aptera has announced that they will be using EVE Energy batteries in their upcoming production car, and the batteries will be produced in San Diego. Today, they have announced yet another partnership, this time with EVE Energy, a Chinese battery manufacturer who will be supplying Aptera with batteries made in a San Diego production facility.

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Aptera performance, Tesla’s Canadian charade, Panasonic on Tesla battery plans: Today’s Car News

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Tesla’s putting its 94-mile Model 3 out in the open, in Canada. And Aptera’s “never charge” solar car goes to the track. Aptera’s three-wheeled. Panasonic expresses some skepticism about the battery format Tesla sees as the future. What did hybrids look like a century ago?

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Volvo adopts Tesla’s NACS Connector for EVs

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“Today, with this agreement, we’re taking a major step to remove this threshold for Volvo drivers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.” Aptera, a solar EV company, adopted NACS before any other automaker. Aptera wants Congress to adopt Tesla Supercharger plugs as U.S.

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Tesla gets its newest adoptees of NACS in Hyundai and Kia

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and Canada. Hyundai and Kia are the tenth and eleventh car companies to adopt NACS since Tesla first struck deals with Aptera and Ford , which looked to secure more charging infrastructure for their customers. They are the two most recent companies to make the change, as Honda agreed to jump to NACS in September.

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BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce adopt Tesla’s NACS charging port

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and Canada will include the charging hardware by the same year. The agreement will give EVs from BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce with the Combined Charging System (CCS) access to select stations in Tesla’s Supercharger network by 2025, and future vehicles built for the U.S.

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Electric Car Company Aurica Motors Enters Two Partnerships for Manufacturing Training and Engineering

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Motive Industries in Calgary, Canada is a specialized vehicle design, prototyping and production engineering company. The company also offers advanced production programs for start-ups and smaller companies, and developed the prototype for the electric vehicle Aptera. And well worth the effort if successful.

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Tesla debuts Alaska’s first Magic Dock Supercharger

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Although this is the first Supercharger in Alaska that lets non-Tesla EVs charge, the company debuted its Magic Dock chargers in Canada last month, featured at Ontario stations in Deep River and North Bay. You can also see a handful of locations in the U.S.

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