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Volvo Car Group signs multi-billion Li-ion dollar battery supply deals with CATL and LG Chem

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The company has since reinforced this strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales volume by 2025. The future of Volvo Cars is electric and we are firmly committed to moving beyond the internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrid variants of the XC40 are already manufactured there.

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Ford names Lightning Hybrids, XL Hybrids, Motiv Power its first eQVM upfitters

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Ford is expanding its Advanced Fuel Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) program to include companies that develop and install electrified and hydraulic hybrid powertrains for Ford trucks and vans. The new eQVM program kicks off with three developers: XL Hybrids, Motiv Power Systems and Lightning Hybrids. Ford is investing $4.5

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW Group is basing its goals on the guidelines of the recognized Science-Based Targets Initiative , which it will also join. Product strategy: fully-electric models in high-volume series. The company will have 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023—half of them fully electric. —Oliver Zipse.

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BMW to supply 100 i3 EVs to LAPD

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BMW of North America won its bid to supply the Los Angeles Police Department with 100 battery-electric BMW i3 vehicles for use in the department’s transportation fleet. The BMW i3 is the first purpose-built electric production vehicle to be made primarily of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). Earlier post.)

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Presales of Audi Q7 TFSI e quattro PHEVs begin in Europe

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l/100km; combined electric power consumption 22.9–21.9 The SUV, the plug-in hybrid drive of which combines a three-liter V6 gasoline engine with a powerful electric motor, is available in two power levels. Together with the coupling, which connects the combustion engine to the drivetrain, it forms the hybrid module.

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Are You Plugged In?

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The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Plug-in hybrids differ from hybrids on the road today in that they can go longer distances on battery power and can be recharged via electrical outlets. Which electric-car developer counts former U.

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News: Hyundai Lays Out An Electric Future

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This includes battery electric vehicles (BEV; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV); hybrid electric vehicles (HEV); and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). million fully electric vehicles in the U.S. BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles). PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles).