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Feb 26, 2022, 9:54 PM

Volta Trucks Raises $260 Million To Fund Electric Vehicle Launch

Protoypes of the Volta Zero, a 16-tonne fully-electric truck, will be delivered to customers in mid-2022, with series production due to start in late 2022.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Firefighters Struggle To Douse Fire On Luxury Cars Vessel Off Azores Islands

  The Felicity Ace ship, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, some electric with lithium-ion batteries, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday. The 22 crew members on board were evacuated on the same day.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  E-Bike Startup Zoomo Raises Extra $20 Million For European Expansion

  Zoomo is also expanding its software and hardware teams to develop new software for customers and work on new bike forms and accessories to carry more weight.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Lucid Group To Recall Over 200 Cars Due To Possible Safety Issue

  Lucid is not aware of any instances of the part failing in its vehicles, but it expects about 1% of the 203 potentially affected cars may have the incorrectly installed part.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Polestar Partners With Suppliers To Develop Climate-Neutral Car

  The auto industry is under pressure to go electric in Europe and China, while wrestling with the problem that it takes more carbon emissions to produce an EV than a fossil-fuel car, notably because of the large batteries.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Car Cleaning Hacks to make your Spring-Cleaning Last

  Spring brings about a change in the weather after long winter months. Changes in routine, temperature and social activities fill us with excitement.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Tesla To Expand Parts Production In Shanghai To Meet Export Demand

  Tesla's Shanghai factory currently has the capacity to produce a combined 450,000 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles a year.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Tesla Faces Day Of Reckoning On Water Supply For Planned German Plant

  The Frankfurt Oder administrative court will hear on March 4 a complaint filed by local groups claiming the Brandenburg environmental ministry carried out insufficient checks before granting the licence to the Wasserverband Strausberg-Erkner (WSE) utility.

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  car&bike Team | Feb 26, 2022

  Oil Price Set To Test Fresh Peaks Barring Iran Breakthrough

  The last time oil prices were above $100 was in 2014, having stayed above that threshold for more than a year.

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