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Lightning eMotors strategic agreement with shuttle bus maker Forest River; up to 7,500 electric Class 4 and 5 buses from 2021-2025

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Lightning eMotors, a provider of specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, and Forest River, Inc., The agreement, with a potential estimated value of up to $850 million, calls for Lightning eMotors to build fully electric powertrains and provide charging products, and services for Forest River over the next four and a half years.

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Volvo Car Group signs multi-billion Li-ion dollar battery supply deals with CATL and LG Chem

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The company has since reinforced this strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales volume by 2025. The future of Volvo Cars is electric and we are firmly committed to moving beyond the internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrid variants of the XC40 are already manufactured there.

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BMW Group to source lithium from Livent

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The BMW Group sources critical raw materials like lithium and cobalt directly from producers and makes them available to its battery cell suppliers. The results of the study should be available in the first quarter of 2022. View of the salt lake Salar del Hombre Muerto in northern Argentina.

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW Group is basing its goals on the guidelines of the recognized Science-Based Targets Initiative , which it will also join. Product strategy: fully-electric models in high-volume series. The company will have 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023—half of them fully electric. —Oliver Zipse.

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BMW to supply 100 i3 EVs to LAPD

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BMW of North America won its bid to supply the Los Angeles Police Department with 100 battery-electric BMW i3 vehicles for use in the department’s transportation fleet. The BMW i3 is the first purpose-built electric production vehicle to be made primarily of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). Earlier post.)

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Ford names Lightning Hybrids, XL Hybrids, Motiv Power its first eQVM upfitters

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These include an all-new fully electric small SUV, a high-volume autonomous vehicle, a hybrid F-150, a hybrid Mustang, a Transit Custom plug-in hybrid and two new pursuit-rated hybrid police vehicles. Vehicles modified by a Ford QVM in compliance with Ford guidelines retain their factory warranties. Ford is investing $4.5

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Presales of Audi Q7 TFSI e quattro PHEVs begin in Europe

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l/100km; combined electric power consumption 22.9–21.9 The SUV, the plug-in hybrid drive of which combines a three-liter V6 gasoline engine with a powerful electric motor, is available in two power levels. The SUV starts in fully electric “EV” mode. mph) and gradually fades out as the speed increases.