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Lucid Motors is in talks to build an electric-car factory near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg first reported Thursday. This would be Lucid’s second factory, alongside the Arizona plant that is scheduled to start churning out Air luxury sedans this spring. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia sounds like one of the last places on earth for an EV plant, but under…
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Why would the search engine giant Baidu be embarking on an electric car project? Regardless of the answer, Baidu’s reported choice of Volvo parent Geely as the partner for the nuts-and-bolts of its car venture—while Baidu will develop the software—instantly gives the project the potential to span beyond China, given Geely’s…
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Unlike most other electric cars, the 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 doesn’t feature anything close to one-pedal driving, the aggressive use of regenerative braking that many electric-car fans are fond of. And it’s for good reason, VW argues. What happens when the driver of an electric car takes their foot off the accelerator pedal is a “difficult…
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How much screen space is just right for the electric luxury cars of the near future? Although the company showed a minimalist direction in the far-off interface hinted by last year’s AVTR concept, it’s going a different direction in the near term: bigger is better. With the MBUX Hyperscreen system due to arrive later in 2021 in the EQS…
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Mazda has confirmed that the rotary engine will return to the U.S. in a “series plug-in hybrid” version of the MX-30 crossover that will also be offered to Americans in battery electric form. The company hasn’t yet released details about timing or availability, and it hasn’t offered a rotary-engined car since the RX-8…
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General Motors plans to make an upcoming Acura-branded electric vehicle in 2024 at the same Tennessee plant that will assemble the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, while a more affordable Honda crossover set to be about the same size could be made by GM in Mexico beginning in 2023. Both pieces of production news come via a Tuesday report from Automotive News…
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Foxconn—the Taiwanese firm best known for contract manufacturing Apple electronics—is helping to prop up Chinese EV startup Byton. The two companies have signed a “strategic cooperation framework” with the aim of finally getting the Byton M-Byte electric crossover into production by 2022, Byton said Monday in a press release. Under the…
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In a pandemic year that’s put some automakers on an austerity budget, Tesla was once again the outlier. As much of the legacy auto market expected to be down about 15% year over year, Tesla reported on Saturday that it closed 2020 with global deliveries up nearly 36% from 2019. Not only that, but the company has come surprisingly close to…
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The Fisker Ocean electric SUV will feature a new driver-assistance system developed in partnership with automotive supplier Magna, the two companies announced Monday. Dubbed Fisker Intelligent Pilot, the system will be analogous to Tesla Autopilot. Like the Tesla system, it also won’t have lidar among its suite of sensors, at least, not initially…
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Could an edgy-looking electric pickup be next for Fisker after the late-2022 rollout of the Ocean electric crossover? CEO Henrik Fisker last week suggested that the next model might be a lifestyle-oriented electric pickup truck. Based on the first sketch of the project released last week, it appears that the truck might ride on the same platform…
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