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Lightning eMotors enters Canada’s commercial EV market with delivery of 10 electric refrigerated delivery vehicles

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Lightning eMotors, a provider of all-electric powertrains and medium-duty and specialty commercial electric fleet vehicles, announced the successful delivery and deployment of 10 all-electric cargo vans to Montreal, Canada-based Goodfood Market Corp. These units have a cooling capacity down to -15 ?C

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Cadillac unveils electric Escalade IQ; 200 kWh, 450 miles; pricing starting around $130K

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Offering a Cadillac-estimated 450 miles of range, the Escalade IQ features a curved pillar-to-pillar 55-inch total diagonal LED display, available Super Cruise driver assistance technology, and vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging technology with GM Energy’s available Ultium Home products.

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smart electric drive goes on sale in China

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The new generation smart electric drive has been available in Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan since production began in 2012. In Germany the electric smart quickly became the number one battery-powered electric vehicle, securing a market share of around 40%. Top speed is 125 km/h (78 mph).

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What’s ‘beyond’ for Mercedes-Benz in terms of EVs and ICE cars?

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Zak Paget, a spokesman for Mercedes-Benz Canada, would now not ascertain a much less competitive technique and mentioned the corporate does now not touch upon non-public conferences with sellers. He did say that statistics recommend the momentum for its battery-electric EQ cars is construction. “In

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans

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The Ram ProMaster EV’s per-mile operating costs are undoubtedly just a fraction of those for its siblings powered by the company’s 3.6-liter GM’s BrightDrop vans are assembled in Ingersoll, Canada. The Ram’s battery powers a 200 kW (268 hp) motor driving the front wheels, rated at 302 lb-ft of torque.

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Mercedes-Benz launching round-the-world fuel cell car drive

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Such an undertaking would not be possible, using purely battery-powered electric vehicles. The fuel cell vehicles will travel through 14 countries: from southern Europe, through France, Spain and Portugal, the cars will continue on to North America, where they will drive through both the USA as well as Canada.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

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and Canada chosen by their peers. That clears the first hurdle to qualify Kia’s electric three-row utility for the $7,500 federal purchase incentive (details on battery minerals and assembly are yet to be revealed). kilowatt-hour battery powering a single 160-kilowatt (215-horsepower) motor. At $4,300 more, the larger 99.8

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