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How do you make the shift to electric vehicles feel real to vast swaths of America? Make a fully electric pickup truck. Make that the best-selling truck in history, the F-150. And then price it at what can amount to less than the gasoline version. That’s exactly what Ford has done. With the arrival of the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning revealed…
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The 2022 GMC Hummer EV SUT is tailpipe emissions free and represents a cleaner, all-electric future of GM. But it has one little inconvenient truth: It’s very, very heavy. According to specifications not yet published but brought to our attention earlier this week from GM-Trucks.com, at least one version of the GMC Hummer EV SUT has a curb…
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Startup Canoo confirmed pricing on Monday for its first electric vehicles, but with no mention of the subscription model that was originally touted as one of the company’s distinguishing features. Pricing for Canoo’s first model—a minivan now dubbed the “Lifestyle Vehicle”—will range from $34,750 to $49,950, the company said in a press…
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The Kia EV6 electric crossover will arrive in 2022 to dealerships across the U.S. That in itself reflects an important pivot for the brand, indicating it’s taking fully electric models a lot more seriously. Kia has been selling fully electric models in the U.S.—good ones—since 2014, starting with the arrival of the 2015 Soul EV…
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Tesla has been compared to Apple numerous times over the years, and almost always in a positive light. That’s no coincidence, according to a new report from The Washington Post, which also notes that echoing Apple cuts both ways. Resemblance to Apple is intentional, as Tesla hired Apple managers, who also brought members of their teams from Apple…
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The United States Postal Service mail-delivery fleet could transition to all-electric trucks with an $8 billion provision recently advanced by a House of Representatives committee, Bloomberg reported last week. The House Oversight and Reform Committee added the language to a bill aimed at better tracking mailed ballots before approving the bill…
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Production of the 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV and 2022 Chevy Bolt EV has started, and first cars are already shipping out to dealerships, GM confirmed Monday to Green Car Reports Amid many delayed rollouts and arrivals, due to microchips and supply-chain issues, that’s about a month earlier than GM suggested earlier this year. Both models, built in…
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A group of Harvard researchers announced last week that they have designed a stable lithium-metal solid-state battery that can be charged and discharged at least 10,000 times “at a high current density.” Lithium-metal solid-state battery cells are widely seen as an important piece of the future for electric cars within the next…
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Following through with its plan to add new features via over-the-air (OTA) software updates, Ford on Thursday announced an update for the Mustang Mach-E that will bring enhanced Amazon Alexa connectivity, BlueCruise driver-assist tech, and other features to the electric SUV. The first Ford Power-Up software updates (there’s always a brand name…
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The 2022 Mini Cooper SE electric car gets an unexpected range boost, to 114 miles of EPA-rated range, compared to 110 miles for the 2021 model. Efficiency ratings increased as well. The 2022 model is rated at 110 MPGe combined and 119 MPGe city, up from the 2021 model’s 108 MPGe combined and 115 MPGe city ratings. However, highway-cycle efficiency…
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