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Ford’s New F-150 Pickup Goes on Sale in November, a Fully-Electric Version Will Enter Production in 2022

Sep 17, 2020 2:00 PM WST

U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. announced on Thursday that its new best-selling F-150 pickup truck will arrive at dealers in November. Production of the new truck is already underway in Michigan. Ford also confirmed that a battery-powered F-150 will enter production by mid 2022 at the automaker's Ford River Rouge Complex, which is slated to become the high-tech manufacturing home for the new electric F-150.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Provider ChargePoint Nears Deal to Go Public, Sources Say

Sep 16, 2020 2:00 PM WST

Silicon Valley-based EV charging operator ChargePoint, one of the oldest and largest EV charging providers in the U.S., is close to a deal to go public in a reverse merger with Switchback Energy Acquisition Corp, source that requested anonymity told Reuters on Wednesday. The reverse merger deal could value the company at more than $2 billion.

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General Motors’ Future EVs Will Be Powered by a Family of 5 New Interchangeable ‘Ultium Drive’ Units

Sep 16, 2020 10:30 AM WST

U.S. automaker General Motors (GM) shared an update today on its new Ultium electric vehicle powertrains, which will power the automaker's future electric vehicle line up. The Ultium powertrain family includes five different units which are configurable for rear wheel, front wheel and all-wheel-drive electric models.

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Mapping Company HERE Technologies Adds AccuWeather to its Maps, EV Drivers Can Now Better Estimate Range Based on Weather Data

Sep 14, 2020 6:00 PM WST

Netherlands-based HERE Technologies, a leading location data and mapping company, today announced that AccuWeather has joined its HERE Marketplace and will offer its weather-related information on HERE's open mapping platform.

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Tesla Plans to Export its China-made Model 3s to Asia & Europe, Sources Say

Sep 11, 2020 3:15 PM WST

Electric automaker Tesla is planning to export Model 3 sedans built at its Shanghai factory to Asia and Europe, according to sources. The first China-built Model 3s for delivery outside the country likely will start mass production in the fourth quarter, Bloomberg reports.

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Tesla Launches its New V3 Superchargers in Berlin, With More to Come

Sep 10, 2020 4:55 PM WST

Tesla demonstrated new V3 supercharger equipment on a Berlin research campus on Thursday. Managers at Tesla said they were looking at more target cities to attract potential buyers in Germany worried about access to EV charging. The more powerful chargers can add 75 miles (120 km) of range to a Model 3 in five minutes.

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Lucid Motors Officially Launches its High-Performance Air Sedan

Sep 09, 2020 5:00 PM WST

California luxury electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors has officially revealed its Lucid Air high-performance sedan in a global web broadcast from the company’s headquarters in Newark, California. Lucid says its ultra-luxurious Air sedan is the "world's most advanced electric car" and it will define Lucid as a company.

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Tesla Shares Fall 21% After S&P 500 Exclusion & GM Acquires a Stake in Rival Nikola Motor

Sep 08, 2020 5:00 PM WST

Tesla's rising stock price has been hit by the unpredictable realities of the financial markets. On Tuesday, U.S. automaker General Motors announced its taking a $2 billion stake in electric truck startup and Tesla rival Nikola Motor Company. The announcement follows last Friday's news that Tesla missed out on being included in the elite S&P 500 stock index, sending its shares down 21.6% today, the biggest one day drop in Tesla's history.

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TomTom Launches ‘RoadCheck’, Which Allows Automaker’s to Decide Which Roads are Safer for Automated Driving

Sep 03, 2020 3:30 PM WST

Navigation and mapping company TomTom has released an innovative new product for automakers called RoadCheck. The program allows automakers to decide where their vehicle can operate safely in autonomous mode using TomTom’s comprehensive map data.

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Mercedes Benz Reveals the New Flagship S Class with the NVIDIA-powered MBUX Cockpit

Sep 02, 2020 2:30 PM WST

Luxury automaker Mercedes Benz unveiled the full features the redesigned flagship S-Class sedan today. As expected, the 2021 Mercedes Benz S Class will come packed with technology. Among the most notable features of the new S Class is it’s widescreen AI-Powered MBUX cockpit. The MBUX intelligent display in the new S Class was developed along with Nvidia.

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Netherlands-based HERE Technologies, a leading location data and mapping company, today announced that AccuWeather has joined its HERE Marketplace and will offer its weather-related information on HERE's open mapping platform.

Electric automaker Tesla is planning to export Model 3 sedans built at its Shanghai factory to Asia and Europe, according to sources. The first China-built Model 3s for delivery outside the country likely will start mass production in the fourth quarter, Bloomberg reports.

​Navigation and mapping company TomTom has released an innovative new product for automakers called RoadCheck. The program allows automakers to decide where their vehicle can operate safely in autonomous mode using TomTom’s comprehensive map data.

Navigation and mapping company TomTom has released an innovative new product for automakers called RoadCheck. The program allows automakers to decide where their vehicle can operate safely in autonomous mode using TomTom’s comprehensive map data.