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Morris electric van, Aptera in-wheel motors, Toyota LQ concept, testing Plaid: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

The Aptera three-wheeled car is back with in-wheel motor tech. And Tesla has returned to Germany’s Nürburgring. It’s a morning of returns. The British brand Morris is back with an all-electric, carbon-fiber vehicle.

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9 Teams Advancing to Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Validation Stage

Green Car Congress

Aptera, Aptera 2e (San Diego, CA), Battery Electric. TW4XP, TW4XP (Germany), Battery Electric. X-Tracer, E-Tracer #79 (Switzerland), Battery Electric. Alternative Class - Side-by-Side (Five vehicles, five teams). Li-ion Motors, Wave II (North Carolina), Battery Electric. ZAP, Alias (Santa Rosa, CA), Battery Electric.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2024

Cars That Think

Long awaited by potential customers and crowdfunders, solar electric vehicles (SEVs) made by the startup Aptera Motors are set to hit the road in 2024, the company says. Aptera says it aims to begin early production in 2024, with the first 2,000 vehicles set to be delivered to investors.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and other Northern European countries, contact SP Innovation. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries. Amberjac Systems www.amberjacprojects.com United Kingdom-based company has provided conversions in Europe.

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Ford Europe EV Plans, Virginia Now a ZEV State – EV Week In Review: Feb. 15-22, 2021

EV Adoption

5, will start production in Germany in the second half of 2021. Aptera Raises $4 Million and Nabs 7,000 Reservations : Aptera Motors announced it closed Series A funding round if more than $4 million. 17, via Ford press release. VW’s next electric SUV, the ID.5 The first pilot series of the ID.5 22, via Reuters.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

- a key Randy C. on CO 2 vehicle standards could reduce the price of oil mdf on Environmental Transport Association blasts proposed car scrapping scheme in UK Jeff Grant on Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

9/11/07 FRANKFURT, Germany -- General Motors will begin testing the revolutionary electric drive system in the Chevrolet Volt concept car on the road in vehicles next spring, company Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said. This is unusual. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ).

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