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Ford confirms construction of Rouge EV center to be home of electric F-150; production by mid-2022

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The electric F-150, which is undergoing tens of thousands of hours of torture testing and targeting millions of simulated, laboratory and real world test miles, will be more powerful than any F-150 available today and deliver commercial and personal customers the lowest expected lifetime total cost of operation among F-Series trucks.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. ZEV access initiatives (under development), and an additional approximately $25 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., personnel, other business expenses).

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. methodology found that nearly 1,700 megawatt hours per day would be needed to bridge the gap between charging infrastructure in the ground today and what would be needed by 2020 in the six targeted metro areas.

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Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot

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Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. The company got its start self-funded, but is closing a Series A within the next couple of weeks.

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This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

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If you go back far enough, a bunch of the initial funding for quadrupedal robots that enabled the commercial platforms that are available today was tied into the idea of robotic pack animals. Boston Dynamics’ BigDog and LS3 were explicitly designed to haul heavy loads (up to 200 kg) across rough terrain for the U.S.

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