Mercedes‑Benz unveils new all-electric eCitaro bus, announces upcoming solid-state batteries

Daimler is investing heavily in going electric with its heavy vehicles. We have been mainly reporting on their trucks, but now the German automaker’s Daimler Bus division is also going electric with the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro electric bus.
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Mercedes‑Benz unveils new all-electric eCitaro bus, announces upcoming solid-state batteries

Daimler is investing heavily in going electric with its heavy vehicles. We have been mainly reporting on their trucks, but now the German automaker’s Daimler Bus division is also going electric with the Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro electric bus.
They un…

Tesla’s Chinese factory, EPA OKs glider trucks, and new material for electric-car batteries: Today’s Car News

Tesla inks a deal to build a new factory in Shanghai. The EPA has given the OK to dirtier glider trucks. A new material could make for better electric-car batteries. And we ask how many electric miles are enough for a plug-in hybrid in our latest Twitt…

Seat coming to China with VW gearing up for growth

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Volkswagen’s Spanish subsidiary Seat will enter China by hooking onto the JAC Volkswagen joint venture. Together the three plan to establish a R&D centre for electric vehicles. Development is to culminate in a dedicated electric car platform for China and beyond in 2021. The new MoU signed by Seat, JAC and Volkswagen specifies a R&D […]

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Breaking: Tesla signs Gigafactory deal in Shanghai

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Elon Musk has been busy in Shanghai today as he inked the deal with the city to build a new battery production facility. The construction of Gigafactory 3 is to “begin in the near future,” says Tesla so that they may start production of both electric cars and batteries two years from now. Tesla’s China […]

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