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Honda launches first plug-in hydrogen fuel cell EV

Baua Electric

Honda’s popular CR-V compact crossover is now getting a hydrogen-powered version that will begin deliveries this year in California – the car allows you to recharge via Level 2 charging for quick trips, or rely on hydrogen power for long hauls. But what makes this car different from a PHEV is that it comes equipped with a 17.7-kilowatt-hour

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GM to boost EV and AV investments 75% to $35B through 2025; new battery plants

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Key factors changing the decision landscape include strong public reaction to the GMC HUMMER EV and HUMMER EV SUV, the Cadillac LYRIQ and the Chevrolet Silverado electric pickup; GM and dealer investments in the EV customer experience; public and private investment in EV charging infrastructure; and the global policy environment.

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Honda EV concepts, Kia electric vans, Vinfast pickup concept, Hertz dumps EVs: The Week in Reverse

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Kia PV5 Concept Also at CES, Hyundai outlined its work to establish a “hydrogen value chain,” with a hydrogen vision that extends well beyond cars , trucks, and buses—to trains, ships, generators, steelmaking, robotics, air mobility, and more. As University of Michigan researchers recently highlighted, it depends on where you live.

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General Motors increases EV investment by 75% through 2025

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which is developing hydrogen-powered heavy trucks to launch in 2024, and Liebherr-Aerospace, which is developing hydrogen-powered auxiliary power units for aircraft. GM manufactures its fuel cells in Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan, in a joint venture with Honda. Separately, GM will supply HYDROTEC to Navistar, Inc.

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VW Joke, Kia EV6 Details – EV Week in Review: March 23-30

EV Adoption

4 that will be arriving at dealers soon. Magna to build EV battery component plant in Michigan – Magna has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in St. Clair, Michigan, that will build complex battery enclosures for the all-new 2022 GMC Hummer EV. – March 30, original story via The Verge.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans. and a third).

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Ford’s Farley foresees that the heavy-duty truck segment will be sticking with ICE trucks for a while, as “it will probably go hydrogen fuel cell before it goes pure electric.” Keeping in mind such issues, and how one might work around them, increases a driver’s cognitive load—things that must be remembered in case they must be acted on.

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