Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Ford’s F-150 Lightning remained the top-selling electric pickup, with sales up 80% over last year with 7,743 units delivered. The company said many 2024 F-150 Lightning orders are repeat buyers. The first models based on the platform are expected to be a smaller electric pickup and SUV with prices starting around $25,000.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

BYD new Seagull EV (Source: BYD) BYD, HYPER, and XPENG join China’s ZEEKR and Li Auto, which already announced plans to use the tech for future EVs. Electrek’s Take The news comes after BYD declared a “liberation battle” against gas-powered vehicles by releasing more affordable electric models priced below (or around) their ICE counterparts.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The first is major price cuts from EV makers like Tesla. Ford F-150 Lightning charging (Source: Ford) Ford draws up 800V fast charging system for new EVs According to a new Ford patent, it looks like the automaker could level the playing field with 800V fast charging for its next-gen EVs.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

The comments come after a source told Bloomberg Businessweek that Ford was developing a low-cost EV platform to power a smaller electric pickup and SUV with starting prices around $25,000. Rivian’s R1S electric SUV was the seventh best-selling EV in the US last year, topping the F-150 Lightning and Tesla Model X.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Aluminum companies are in an “ ebullient mood ”, WSD says, due in part to the aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150 ( earlier post ) and an Aluminum Association report, authored by the Ducker Worldwide consulting group, forecasting that by 2025 three-in-four pickup trucks will have an all-aluminum body. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

The American automaker is developing a new low-cost EV platform to underpin a smaller electric pickup and SUV. 2024 Ford F-150 Flash (Source: Ford) According to Bloomberg Businessweek , Ford’s “skunk works” team working on the platform is led by Alan Clarke, who led engineering on the Tesla Model Y.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Modern windmills and hybrid autos, for example, rely on strong permanent magnets made with the rare earth elements neodymium and dysprosium. Where high-temperature performance would normally be addressed by the conversion of aluminum to titanium, much higher prices may be justified. —Sims et al. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

Ford’s EV sales climbed 80% year-over-year (YOY) in February following aggressive price cuts last month. Ford EV sales climb in February following price cuts After EV sales slipped 11% last month in EV sales last month, Ford saw a big improvement in February with 6,368 all-electric vehicles handed over, up 80.8% over last year.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla is described as disruptive technology, but in reality the company has done what auto companies have done for a little more than a century—build great cars and match them up with owners who appreciate them. Ford Mustang Mach-E (& F-150 Lightning & E-Transit). Let us know what you think.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

In recent years, the low cost of lithium has discouraged the miners from increasing production capacity which has now resulted in a lack of demand accelerates. Ford has also recently announced a $29 billion commitment to electric and self-driving cars and unveiled an electric version of the F-150 truck.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009.

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