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Hyundai invests more in Georgia to produce hybrids

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Earlier this year, General Motors CEO Mary Barra talked about bringing the company’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to North America. During its recent earnings call, however, Tesla reiterated its stance that EVs are the future of the automobile industry. Ford postponed EV launches to focus on hybrid production.

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Honda partners with CATL on Li-ion EV batteries; 56 GWh by 2027

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In 2016, Honda officially announced its strategy to accelerate electrification: its global sales of the electric vehicles including HEV, PHEV, and EV are to reach 65% of the group in 2030. Also, at the Beijing Motor Show in 2018, it officially announced that more than 20 electric vehicles would be launched in China by 2025.

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Honda targeting 2/3 of unit sales from PHEVs, HEVs and ZEVs by ~2030; PHEVs the core of electrification

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The next-generation fuel cell system which is being developed jointly with General Motors will move on to the next stage that includes production and purchasing, aiming at a product launch around 2020. After that, Honda will make a plug-in hybrid type available for the major models and increase the number of models sequentially.

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Which EVs Still Qualify for Federal Tax Credits?

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The first of those is broken down into electrified automobiles that have at least 40 percent of the battery's critical mineral values extracted and/or processed within the U.S. Interestingly, only General Motors and Tesla managed to hit those caps and they’re some of the biggest winners under the new scheme as well.

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DOE Closes $529M Loan to Fisker Automotive

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million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Fisker, a startup based in southern California, expects to manufacture the Karma and Project NINA lines at a recently shuttered General Motors factory in Wilmington, Delaware. Earlier post.)

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DOE Funds PHEVs

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T he Department of Energy is moving forward to develop advanced batteries for PHEV s. This research builds on President Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative , which aims to change the way we power our homes, offices, and automobiles. Here is the story. This would include most roundtrip daily commutes. Bodman said. “

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US DRIVE releases comprehensive cradle-to-grave analysis of light-duty vehicle GHGs, cost of driving and cost of avoided GHGs

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Co-authors are from Argonne National Laboratory; the US Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies, Fuel Cell Technologies, and Bioenergy Technologies Offices; the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; the Electric Power Research Institute; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; General Motors; Chevron; and Ford.

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