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Bentley CEO Jumps Ship for Aston Martin

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Bentley's former CEO Adrian Hallmark has broken with the company after making remarks that sales were down due to wealthy people buying fewer luxury products over concerns that it might upset poorer people living in those markets. It didn’t play well in the media and Hallmark has reportedly left the brand and since taken up with Aston Martin.

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Lucid agrees to supply Aston Martin with EV powertrain tech

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Lucid Group announced today it had come to terms with Aston Martin in what is being called “a definitive agreement to establish a long-term strategic technology partnership with Aston Martin to accelerate the iconic British brand’s high-performance electrification strategy and long-term growth.”

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Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group form automotive battery JV; Aston Martin launch customer

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Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. The launch customer for Hyperbat batteries is the Aston Martin Rapide E, which will be a limited production run.

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Aston Martin and LeEco partner to co-develop RapidE EV for market intro in 2018; potential to add Faraday Future

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China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan.

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Lucid CEO shares take on next-gen EVs: “The electric car of the future only needs 250 miles”

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Lucid Motors made it a point to go above and beyond the industry standard when it released the Air, its first vehicle. Just recently, Lucid and Aston Martin signed a deal that would see the American automaker supply powertrain components to the British sports car company. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Fisker completes $50M financing; Huhnke named CTO

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Cowen acted as the company’s sole advisor and placement agent on the financing. Huhnke comes with an extensive background working for both automakers and technology companies, having served as the former vice president of e-mobility for Volkswagen America and vice president of automotive at chip maker, Synopses.

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UK awards ÂŁ35M to three low-carbon propulsion technology projects

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The technologies developed will support aspirations for the UK to be a world leader in zero emissions technology as part of the Industrial Strategy and recently-published Road to Zero strategy. The projects have the potential to save more than 3 million tonnes CO 2.