Electric Cars

Reuters

Jul 14, 2022, 9:31 PM

EV Disruptors Hit Industry Speed Bumps That Have Plagued Legacy Automakers For Years

Electric vehicle startups that promised to disrupt the automotive industry by using a software- and technology-heavy approach are now scrambling to cut costs amid the type of industry slowdown that has bedeviled Detroit automakers over the years.

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  Reuters | Jul 13, 2022

  Tesla Supplier Panasonic Eyes 20% Jump In Battery Density By 2030

  Panasonic Energy, a core Panasonic Holdings unit, plans to achieve those gains by using a new mix of additives to allow individual cells to run at a higher voltage without damaging the batteries' performance.

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  Reuters | Jul 13, 2022

  Polestar EV Sales Surge In First Half, On Track For Full-Year Target

  Sales at the Swedish EV maker rose almost 125% to about 21,000 cars in the first six months of the year, up from 9,510 in the same period last year.

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  car&bike Team | Jul 13, 2022

  MG To Debut Air EV In India; Launch Expected By Mid 2023

  MG's compact EV for the Indian market is expected to get two range options, will be laden with features.

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  Reuters | Jul 13, 2022

  VW Of America Teams With Redwood On EV Battery Recycling

  VW is the latest carmaker to partner with Redwood, which has forged similar alliances with Toyota Motor Corp, Ford Motor Co and Geely Automobile's Volvo Cars.

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  Pratik Rakshit | Jul 13, 2022

  Tata Nexon EV Prime Introduced With New Features And Increased Prices

  Prices for both the Tata Nexon EV Prime and Tata Nexon EV Max have also been increased by up to Rs. 1.31 lakh and Rs. 60,000 respectively depending on the variant.

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  Reuters | Jul 12, 2022

  Musk's Tesla Stock Sale Windfall Dwarfs Twitter Loss

  The Tesla chief executive for now appears to be sitting on around $8.5 billion in cash raised from selling shares of the automaker late in April to finance the Twitter acquisition.

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  Jaiveer Mehra | Jul 12, 2022

  Log9 Materials, Northway Motorsports Partner For Commercial Vehicle EV Retrofitting

  The two companies have entered a long-term partnership that will also see the two launch a new fast-charging capable retrofitted EV platform

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  Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Jul 12, 2022

  Sixth Generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W214) Seen Testing In Germany

  The car is still well over a year away from even a premiere, let alone having its market launch. But Mercedes-Benz is already hard at work to get the latest tech and performance benchmarks into its bestseller E-Class. Siddharth caught it testing near Sindelfingen, and says this could also be the last ICE-E!

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