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Ford Decides Against Dumping AM Radio

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Ford removed AM from the 2023 Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning electric pickups after data collected from vehicles showed that less than 5 [percent] of customers listened to it, spokesman Alan Hall said. We’ve already seen General Motors taking heat over vowing to eliminate Apple CarPlay from future products.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

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ECOtality Advertisement With General Motors, Nissan and Daimler – among others – all racing to come out with electric cars by 2010, it’s clear that electric cars are the solution and will soon be the norm. New investments in battery technology and production are announced daily.

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Senate Bill Seeks to Tariff Chinese Vehicles Out of Existence

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percent tariff, the changes would effectively make those products prohibitively expensive. Chinese products were frequently relegated to inexpensive and undesirable spaces at automotive trade shows featuring models that would have never been competitive here. The bill seeks to raise the base tariff rate from 2.5

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