battery electric vehicles
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The Big Dumb Businesses Hoping Tesla Makes Its Big Dumb Truck
The Tesla Cybertruck is a pretty easy vehicle to poke fun at. It’s too big, too heavy and too non-existent for anyone to actually take it seriously. Oh, it also looks really dumb. But regardless of its ridiculousness, a whole cottage industry has sprung up around its possible release, whenever that might happen.
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GM Rolls Out $10 Billion Investment Plan to Build Electric Trucks and Batteries
General Motors helped hook Americans on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs that have been a disaster for the climate. Now, it’s getting serious about a pivot to electric vehicles amid increased electrification efforts from other top automakers. On Tuesday the automaker announced it will invest roughly $US7 (A$10) billion to build out a new EV battery…
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Honda Doesn’t Think Americans Are Interested In EVs
EV sales in the U.S. are a small market segment, but one that’s growing quickly. Just 4% of new cars sold here are electric, but their market share is growing 28 per cent every year. That growth rate is slower than China or Europe, but faster than the overall auto sales market in the U.S.…
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GM Starts Delivering Hummer EV Even Though the Planet Doesn’t Need Luxury Electric Trucks
More than a year after its unveiling, General Motors proudly announced that it was now delivering its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a 9,000-pound (4,082 kilograms) luxury electric beast with a 1,000-horsepower motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) in three seconds. The message: You can do your part to save…