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GM’s Tesla NACS support spells trouble for Electrify America [Opinion]

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General Motors’ (GM) support for Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) might be trouble for Electrify America. The theory is gaining some legs now that General Motors has decided to support the NACS. General Motors and Ford hold a significant market share of the United States auto industry.

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News: Tesla Announces Annual Earnings, New Focus on Production

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New Products Delayed as Company Shifts to Delivering Current Vehicles. Tesla’s focus for 2022 is quality & quantity of current product. The growth is predicated on two new production facilities—in Texas and Germany—coming online this year to augment existing plants in Fremont, California, and Shanghai, China.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

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The report, supported by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, measures the technological nature of today’s auto industry and compares it to other sectors of the economy often viewed as technologically advanced. Additionally, the auto industry provides 16% of total worldwide R&D funding for all industries.

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Auto Alliance urges EPA to withdraw premature Final Determination on light-duty GHG regulations, resume Midterm Evaluation process with NHTSA

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The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA.

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US Treasury To Provide Up To $5B in Financing For Auto Supplier Support

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While the President’s Task Force on the Auto Industry continues to review restructuring plans submitted by General Motors and Chrysler, the US Department of the Treasury announced an Auto Supplier Support Program that will provide up to $5 billion in financing to US-based suppliers.

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2022 Rivian R1T: a real pickup truck makes an impressive debut

Charged EVs

Three years and one global pandemic later, the company is now starting to deliver production versions of its 2022 R1T electric pickup truck to paying customers. Rivian is launching production slowly and carefully. All but one of the dozen R1Ts on the October media drive were pre-production prototypes with EX appended to their VINs.

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Grant Thornton LLP Warns of Potential Collapse of Automotive Supply Chain

Green Car Congress

The economic impact of a General Motors or Chrysler bankruptcy is being debated across the country. But if the scenario plays out in an uncontrolled fashion, every automaker will almost certainly lose production and incur steep financial losses. Further, the government may be suffering from the early stages of bailout fatigue.

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