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Ford Maverick: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

CleanTechnica EVs

Now that the Ford Maverick has been fully revealed, we have all of the details. I won’t rehash those in this article because my colleague Steve already covered it. Be sure to check his article out to see all of the nitty gritty details. Now that details have been public and we’ve digested them for […].

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GM seizes on lull in electric van market with BrightDrop announcement

Teslarati

. “The quicker we can electrify commercial fleets, the quicker we’ll help combat climate change. ” Despite the BrightDrop electric van only reaching the market recently, it has already found commercial success, rivaling competitors Rivian and Ford, the current electric van segment leaders.

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

Cars That Think

Ford plans to scale up 140 GW of capacity in North America by 2030 (and 240 GW globally), in partnership with South Korea's SK Innovation. Ford figures that's about six plants' worth of homegrown capacity, and 10 globally. SK Innovation—mimicking LG's innovations, as usual—aims to put its NCMA cells into Fords.

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Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

Green Car Congress

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

With the pandemic, with climate change issues coming to the forefront, with a change in Administration, there’s just incredible interest in EVs right now.” Participants took the opportunity to check-out five vehicles from the Tesla START program , as well as a Mustang Mach-E donated for display by the local Ford dealership.

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Volkswagen and Mahindra & Mahindra Strikes Partnership to Capture The Indian EV Market

Get Electric Vehicle

The shared MEB platform contributes to meeting the Paris climate change agreement. It’s already in use by many Volkswagen Group brands (Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, and SEAT/Cupra), and Ford will shortly utilise it in two all-electric cars in Europe (out of 9 BEVs in Europe by 2024).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G.

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