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VinFast and Pininfarina detail designs of VF 8 and VF 9 EVs

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At Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC 2022) in Barcelona, Vietnam-based VinFast and Pininfarina illustrated the details of the interior and exterior design of their electric vehicles, VF 8 and VF 9. Established in 2017, VinFast owns an automotive manufacturing complex that features up to 90% automation in Hai Phong, Vietnam.

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Pininfarina & Hercules Electric Vehicles partners to design Alpha electric pickup truck

Electric Vehicles India

Pininfarina & Hercules Electric Vehicles partners to design Alpha electric pickup truck. The Italian design Pininfarina partners with Detroit, Michigan Hercules electric vehicles company to design Detroit automaker the Hercules Alpha electric pickup and also the other products that will be announced in the coming years.

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The Pininfarina Battista is more than a Rimac Nevara in a wig

Teslarati

The Pininfarina Battista electric hypercar is more than a simple remix of the Rimac Nevara. Pininfarina’s Battista has been circulating in the news for over three years. Still, with more recent information about the vehicle now being manufactured and it being reviewed by Top Gear and Edmunds , perhaps it deserves one more look.

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Mahindra Pininfarina to launch Batista Electric Hyper GT on Aug 12

Electric Vehicles India

Mahindra Pininfarina to launch Batista Electric Hyper GT on Aug 12. Mahindra backed Automobili Pininfarina a luxury electric vehicles brand to debut its pure electric Battista hyper GT at the upcoming Monterey Car Week. Mahindra Pininfarina. Automobili Pininfarina (@AutomobiliPinin) August 4, 2021. .

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In Memoriam: Marcello Gandini, an Automotive Design Master

The Truth About Cars

The world lost one of its preeminent car designers today, as Marcello Gandini has passed away at the age of 85. Though perhaps best known for the flashy and outrageous Lamborghini Countach, Gandini’s pen was applied to many other Italian, German, French, British, Japanese, and Swedish concepts and production designs.

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HKG and Pininfarina introduce two more microturbine range extended EVs; graphene-enhanced LTO batteries

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At Auto Shanghai 2017, China-based Hybrid Kinetic Group (HK), with its partner Pininfarina, introduced two more microturbine range-extended electric vehicles: the five-seat K550 and 7-seat K750 SUVs. These join the luxury sedan H600, introduced earlier this year at the Geneva show ( earlier post ), making a family of three.

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Italvolt selects ABB for FEED for 45 GWh gigafactory in Italy

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Italvolt Spa has selected ABB for Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for its planned 45 GWh gigafactory in Italy. The two companies will also jointly explore how automation, electrification and digitalization solutions can fast-track production processes for battery manufacturing.

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