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Iconic Land Rover Turned Into Electric Car Research Vehicle

Green Car Reports

The Land Rover Defender is as much an automotive icon in Great Britain as the Jaguar E-Type, MGB or the Austin Mini. It's not as glamorous as any of them, but the car's chunky styling, go-anywhere ability and incredible longevity have resulted in the design barely changing since its introduction in 1948.

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Tesla Texas, Model 3 LFP cells, VW ID.4 timing, Twisted electric Defender: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Austin, Texas, will be the site of a very large Tesla factory, and CEO Elon Musk confirmed why some Model 3s will be getting different battery cells. And an electric version of the Land Rover Defender is headed to the U.S.—in VW talks timing on ID.4. —in vintage form, that is. Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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INRIX launches new platform to connect road authorities with vehicle operators for highly automated vehicles

Green Car Congress

—Chris Holmes, connected and autonomous vehicle research senior manager at Jaguar Land Rover. Automakers and operators slated to use the platform at launch include: Jaguar Land Rover, May Mobility, nuTonomy (an Aptiv company) and operators running Renovo’s Aware platform.

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Over 200,000 Pure Electric Vehicles to hit UK roads in 2021

Drive Electric

Tesla will continue to sell large volumes of EVs due to the brand’s popularity, but could be constrained by supply until production ramps up in its new factories in Berlin and Austin, Texas; when that happens, Tesla could equal BMW and Mercedes as a 100,000 sales per year luxury brand very quickly in the UK.