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Ford cutting F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds

Teslarati

I took a Ford F-150 Lightning to Tesla Superchargers: The Good and Bad According to the President of UAW Local 862 in Louisville, Kentucky, Todd Dunn, battery tech is the main holdup in why purchasing has slowed. The new F-150 Lightning units were held for a quality review. “Their intentions were to build 180,000-plus units.

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Proterra introduces 2nd generation electric bus

Green Car Congress

launched its second-generation all-electric bus, The Proterra Solution, at the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference. Proterra Inc. The Proterra Solution, the company’s first 40-foot model, weighs less than any other transit bus available today and offers the highest fuel efficiency on the market.

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ZEON to introduce new anode and cathode binders for Li-Ion batteries

Green Car Congress

will introduce their newest grades of anode and cathode binders for Li-ion batteries at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) held January 2011 in Pasadena, California. Kimiaki Tanaka (Director, ZEON) will make a technical presentation regarding BM-480B and ZEON’s other Li-ion binders 25 January at the AABC conference.

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

Cars That Think

DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA. Robotics researchers from NVIDIA and University of Southern California presented their work at the 2021 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference called DiSECt, the first differentiable simulator for robotic cutting. RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event].

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. told the Nikkei International Automotive Conference in Tokyo. Well certainly be careful not to announce anything that we cannot deliver." New York Times ) 10/22/07 ".in

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