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Ford Mustang Mach-E April sales experience effects of ongoing chip shortage

Teslarati

The ongoing chip shortage has adversely affected the auto industry, and Ford has acknowledged this. This is quite unfortunate, as the Mach-E is proving its popularity in Ford’s dealer lots. Ford has noted that the Mustang Mach-E is turning in just four days on dealer lots and transacting at $45,800. .

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GM’s rosy year-end figures obscure the fact that legacy automakers are in deep trouble – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition. GM edged out fellow brontosaurus Toyota to take the #1 spot in US sales, and also scored #1 in sales of SUVs and trucks.

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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

EV Central

2022 Mitsubishi eK X EV kei car for the Japan market Westcott was speaking as the auto industry waits for the federal government to reveal details of its new fuel standard intended to encourage the take-up of electric vehicles.

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VW joins China auto price war, offers up to $5,820 discount on ID. series EVs

CN EV Post

The price war in China's auto industry continues, with Volkswagen becoming the latest to join in. 6 Crozz, two SUVs with suggested retail prices starting at RMB 217,900 and RMB 258,900 respectively. FAW-Volkswagen's retail sales of NEVs in January-February were 9,572 units, down 8.3 Currently, FAW-Volkswagen is selling the ID.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

I say apparently as a PR person with Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, stated the following to me in a January 18 email: I can tell you that it is true, we were the best selling plug-in hybrid SUV last year in the US. Auto Industry Analyst. Rick Deneau, Stellantis. Flip a coin.

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

Green Car Congress

Prior to Tesla, Thomas was Director of Special Projects at Magna Steyr, VP and Division General Manager at auto supplier Collins & Aikman, and a powertrain component design engineer and powertrain system project and project engineer for 10 years. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established.

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KPMG survey finds global auto execs ranking fuel efficiency the top consumer priority

Green Car Congress

The vehicle categories seeing the most significant response increases in the 2011 survey compared with 2010 were SUVs, luxury vehicles, large pick-up trucks, and cross-overs. The 2011 KPMG survey also finds the auto industry heavily investing in future technology, new products and safety improvements. Investments.

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