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Lucid Motors to opt for direct sales model

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Lucid Motors, the electric car start-up, has announced details of its sales and service strategy and the locations of nine Lucid Studios in the USA. The first showroom has already opened at the company’s headquarters in Newark, California. Eight more are to follow this year, some of which are already under construction. Specifically, Lucid is […]

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Volvo launches battery assembly in Ghent

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Volvo Cars has inaugurated a battery assembly line at its Belgian production site in Ghent. The first batteries for the XC40 Recharge P8 will be assembled there in March. Production of the first electric Volvo is also scheduled to start in Ghent in the autumn. In the newly opened battery assembly plant, Volvo will produce […]

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Mercedes launches A 250 e production

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Mercedes-Benz has started production of the plug-in hybrid versions of the A-Class at its compact car plant in Rastatt. However, Mercedes does not specify when the vehicles will be delivered to customers. In the A-Class, Mercedes is bringing the PHEV drive in two body versions, the compact car and the saloon. Production is now to […]

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Aiways will skip dealerships in Europe

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Aiways will offer its new battery electric SUV U5 in Europe exclusively through direct sales and not through traditional dealer networks. After sales and service will be ha ndled by partners – the first ones for Europe have now been named. The European market launch of the Airways U5 will start in August 2020 in […]

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ZSW analysis shows global number of EVs at 7.9 million

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In 2019, the worldwide stock of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles with battery-electric drives or with range extenders, as well as plug-in hybrid drives has increased to around 7.9 million, 2.3 million more than a year ago. The figures are taken from a recent survey by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research […]

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GM to begin upgrading Detroit factory in March

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Preparations for the conversion of the Detroit-Hamtramck production facility into a pure electric car plant, announced by General Motors at the end of January, will begin in March. There are also reports of concrete subsidies for the planned GM battery factory in Ohio. But first a look at Michigan: According to local media, the last […]

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GKN testing new drive in the Arctic Circle

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GKN Automotive continues their tests on the 3-in-1 powertrains and has several prototypes underway in the Arctic Circle. New inverters and motors are being used in the test vehicles based on the Tesla Model 3 and Fiat Ducato. With the 3-in-1 layout of the drive unit called G400, the British supplier wants to integrate the […]

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Nio launches production of the EC6

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The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has started production of its third model after the ES8 and ES6. The start of production at the indebted company is also made possible thanks to a framework agreement with the city of Hefei, which is providing Nio with a billion-euro cash injection. The EC6, announced in January, is […]

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Sono Motors announces financing update

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Sono Motors has released an update on the development and financing of the Sion. Among other things, the work packages and suppliers were defined. Some aspects are however still not finalized. Let us recall: at the beginning of December 2019, Sono Motors declared negotiations with a potential major investor to have failed and subsequently radically […]

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Micro Mobility presents Microletta & Microlino 2.0

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After Micro Mobility Systems announced in January that it would be developing its Microlino to series production readiness together with the Italian company CECOMP, the Swiss company wants to present the visually and technically revised Microlino 2.0 at the Geneva Motor Show. Following the out-of-court settlement with Artega and TMI announced in January in the […]

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