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Apr 15, 2019, 9:34 PM

Toyota Sells Electric Vehicle Technology To Chinese Startup Singulato

Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to sell electric car technology to Singulato, its first deal with a Chinese electric vehicle startup, allowing the fledgling firm to speed up development of a planned mini EV.

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  Reuters | Apr 15, 2019

  Volkswagen Pushes Battery Partners To Build Gigafactories

  Volkswagen is pushing its joint venture partners including SK Innovation (SKI) to build electric car battery plants which have at least one Gigawatt manufacturing capacity, Chief Executive Herbert Diess told Reuters. "Anything below that amount would make little sense," Diess said on the sidelines of the Shanghai Auto Show on Sunday. Volkswagen will buy 50 billion euros ($56.57 billion) worth of battery cells for electric cars and has identified South Korea's SKI, LG Chem and Samsung SDI as strategic battery cell suppliers as well as China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL).

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  car&bike Team | Apr 11, 2019

  Evoke Motorcycles Unveils New Electric Power Cruiser

  Chinese electric motorcycle manufacturer Evoke Motorcycles has unveiled an electric power cruiser which is a torque monster!

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  car&bike Team | Apr 12, 2019

  Revolt Motors Electric Motorcycle Spied Testing For The First Time

  Gurugram-based Revolt Motors recently announced its plans to foray into the nascent electric two-wheeler market in the country. The new start-up is founded by Rahul Sharma, who previously built Micromax mobiles. While the company did not reveal any details about its offerings at the time of its announcement, images of its first electric two-wheeler have made their way online for the first time. Revolt's new electric two-wheeler is specifically a motorcycle and the prototype certainly looks like something that will be grabbing a lot of attention.

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  car&bike Team | Apr 11, 2019

  Honda Concept Electric Motocross Bike Unveiled

  The concept motocross electric bike is the first of its kind from Honda, and is built on a Honda CRF250 chassis with the power unit from Honda's electric partner, Mugen.

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  car&bike Team | Apr 10, 2019

  New-Gen Volvo S60 Coming To India In 2020; Focus On PHEVs And EVs

  The decision to move to electric vehicles couldn't have come at a better time for Volvo as it readies its EVs and PHEVs for launch in the country and the support of the Government of India is of utmost importance.

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  car&bike Team | Apr 8, 2019

  2020 Karma Revero Gets BMW's TwinPower Turbo Engine

  After extensive evaluation the team selected the highly-charged BMW engine as the optimal choice to support a new and more powerful high-voltage NMC lithium-ion battery pack and a new, transversely mounted, twin-motor rear drive module (RDM).

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  car&bike Team | Apr 8, 2019

  Jaguar Land Rover To Use High-Grade Recycled Aluminium for New Vehicles

  Between September 2013 and January 2019, around 300,000 tonnes of closed-loop scrap have been processed back into the brand's lightweight aluminium intensive architecture, across all vehicle lines including XE.

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  Reuters | Apr 7, 2019

  FCA To Pay Tesla Hundreds Of Millions Of Euros To Pool Fleet

  maker Tesla Inc hundreds of millions of euros so that the vehicles of Tesla are counted in its fleet to avoid fines for violating new European Union emission rules, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The step will let the Italian carmaker offset carbon dioxide emissions from its cars against Tesla's, by bringing down its average figure to a permissible level, the Financial Times said.

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