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Tesla Model 3 ‘Highland’ trial production, delivery date rumors swirl in China

Teslarati

Rumors of Tesla’s redesigned Model 3, known as “Highland,” are continuing to swirl in China, and there are even indications that the vehicle has already started to be built and deliveries could occur as soon as October. The Highland Model 3 has been in development for more than a year. I’d love to chat!

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Is the electric vehicle wave beginning to crash? VW Group’s global EV order bank halves after super-strong start to the year

EV Central

From January to September, the VW Group said it delivered an incredible 531,500 battery-powered vehicles — an incredible 45 percent increase over the same period in 2022 — with EVs now accounting for more than 7.9 percent of all VW sales globally. READ MORE: Volkswagen ID.7

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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

Green Car Congress

Eramet owns perpetual mining rights over a major lithium concession, in the form of brine, located on the Andean highlands in the province of Salta in Argentina. The competitiveness of the Eramet DLE process ranks it in the first quartile of the cash cost curve of the lithium industry (cash cost of c.$3,500/t Background.

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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Which EV brand has the lowest ownership costs of any automotive brand? According to reports, the Indiana-built EV could be a Highlander EV, while the Kentucky model might incorporate all the leading-edge manufacturing methods Toyota has suggested in recent years are on the way. Tesla revealed its Tesla Model 3 Performance on Wednesday.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Looking at the latest “Highland” Model 3, as priced last week, it undercuts the Tesla by $9,000. Honda still has no affordable, mass-market EV, and based on remarks from Honda’s global CEO, that’s not coming soon—or an Accord EV or Odyssey EV—but solid-state batteries may enable an affordable small Honda EV by 2030.

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Toyota broadly outlines next-generation Prius; developing wireless inductive charging for the plug-in model; bullish on hydrogen

Green Car Congress

The performance of this new generation of powertrains will reflect significant advances in battery, electric motor and gasoline engine technologies. The next Prius will feature improved batteries with higher energy density. The challenge of the hybrid race car has been the added weight of the battery and electric motor, he noted.

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2023 Toyota bZ4X

Clean Fleet Report

This is the first of several “bZ” vehicles between now and 2025, when Toyota will offer 70 electrified vehicles, 15 of them being full battery electric. Then, by 2030, 80 percent of Toyota’s global sales will be electrified with hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Town and Country.

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