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GM reveals new Ultium batteries and flexible global platform for rapid growth of EV lineup

Green Car Congress

Flexibility: GM’s all-new global platform is flexible enough to build a wide range of trucks, SUVs, crossovers, cars and commercial vehicles with outstanding design, performance, packaging, range and affordability.

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

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The Ford vehicle is based on the first phase (Mach-I) of work of the DOE-supported Multi-Material Lightweight Vehicles project (Award DE-EE0005574) by Vehma International (an engineering and prototype division within the Cosma International operating unit of Magna) and Ford. million project ($10 million from DOE, $10.3

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Road Test: 2022 Kia EV6

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Kia has been one of the leaders in value-priced EVs over the last few years, but their offerings had been based on vehicles that started life as conventional internal combustion cars. It can take advantage of the most powerful fast chargers available today, and leaves rivals waiting in line at Costco.

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