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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

For North America, the electric Hummer is the first of a promised 20 or so GM EVs based on the company’s new Ultium battery and powertrain technology. GM hasn’t released an official capacity, but the Hummer’s battery pack will likely pack around 200 kWh of energy. None of the three lines could be called fast, nor high-performance.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Detroit Post and Tribune. precursor to the Eveready Battery Co.) In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap.

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Sweden’s Northvolt nears do business in with Canada on $7-billion EV battery plant in Quebec

Baua Electric

They’re additionally in talks with Stellantis on a EV battery plant within the town of Windsor, Ont., around the border from Detroit. regulation, signed via President Joe Biden terminating day, deals ongoing subsidies for the manufacturing of electrical car batteries, no longer merely the price of setting up unused vegetation.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

He called his new configuration the "plug-in hybrid" because it allowed homeowners to recharge the car's batteries by plugging into an electrical outlet. But Detroit auto makers ignored him. Dr. Frank estimates that if drivers regularly recharge their batteries at home, plug-ins may get well over 100 miles per gallon.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

That would be the Dodge Circuit, a car that Chrysler unveiled at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show in January and which is now prominently displayed at the New York Auto Show. The plan is to produce the battery packs as modules that can be easily combined and arranged for different uses in a variety of vehicles.

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China and the Electric Car | Autos | Smart Spending | Mainstreet

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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