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General Motors partners Salton Sea lithium production for EVsĀ 

Electric Vehicles India

General Motors partners Salton Sea lithium production for EVs . General Motors has announced that it will partner with a renewable energy company’s lithium and power development in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field near Imperial for batteries for electric vehicles. GM to develop electric lunar rover for NASA.

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Audi taps Mertens from Volvo to lead technical development

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This was followed by responsibility for the compact cars of General Motors Europe in 2004 and for all compact cars of General Motors worldwide in 2005. As of March 2011, he was Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Car Corporation.

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Report: EV Electra aims to make Swedish-engineered Emily GT in Italy

Baua Electric

NEVS planned four EVs for China based on the Phoenix platform that was going to underpin the next-generation Saab 9-3, plus an electric version of the old 9-3 and 9-3X using that model’s General Motors legacy platform. A version of the latter was publicly shown in 2017.

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Other automakers follow Tesla into rare earth metal-free powertrains

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Tesla and others are looking to end the use of rare earth metals in future electric vehicle (EV) motors, with U.S., Eventually, the Japanese automaker plans to phase out the use of rare earth metals entirely through EESM development and the use of permanent magnet motors.

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Tesla Is The Most American-Made Car Brand

The Truth About Cars

percent, and Honda landed at number three with 73.1 & Not surprisingly, Ferrari, McLaren, and Tata ā€“ makers of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles ā€“ donā€™t produce any domestically. Ford is the next closest with 77.5

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Consumer Reports finds Cadillacā€™s Super Cruise outperforms other active driving assistance systems; Tesla Autopilot a distant second

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General Motors told CR that Super Cruise will be on 22 GM vehicles by 2023. Cadillacā€™s Super Cruise remained CRā€™s top-rated system because, when turned on, it uses direct driver monitoring to warn drivers that appear to have stopped paying attention to the road.

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Apple introduces CarPlay for iPhone integration into cars

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Users can easily control CarPlay from the carā€™s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction.