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Hyundai and Waymo Enter Multi-Year, Strategic Partnership To Offer Autonomous Driving in Ioniq 5s

Hyundai Motor Company and Waymo entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership. In the first phase of this partnership, the companies will integrate Waymo’s sixth-generation fully autonomous technology—the Waymo Driver—into Hyundai’s all-electric IONIQ 5 SUV, which will be added to the Waymo One fleet over time. The IONIQ 5 vehicles destined…

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Volkswagen Introduces Tayron in Europe; Phev Models With More Than 100 KM Electric Range

Volkswagen unveiled the new Tayron SUV in Europe; the large Volkswagen SUV with five or optionally seven seats is positioned between the Touareg (premium class) and the Tiguan (mid-class). A total of seven drive systems will soon be available. The range includes two next-generation plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (eHybrid).

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Toshiba, Rinko Bus and Drive Electro to Demo Electric Bus With Super-Rapid 10-Minute Charging

Toshiba Corporation has agreed with Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co., Ltd. (Rinko Bus) and Drive Electro Technology Co., Ltd. (Drive Electro Technology) jointly to study a demonstration project to confirm the effectiveness of a super-rapid charging battery powered by a pantograph. The project is expected to start operation in November…

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24M Releases New Test Results for Impervio Battery Separator

24M recently released new testing results for its transformative battery separator—Impervio—that addresses the growing concern of battery safety for electric vehicles (EV), energy storage systems (ESS) and consumer applications (earlier post). The new data coincides with mounting concerns after recent battery fires in the United States and internationally. Impervio, announced…

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Volvo Cars’ Global Sales up 1% in September; Electrified Model Sales up 43% Y-O-Y

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 62,458 cars in September, up 1%compared to the same period last year. The company’s sales of electrified models—fully electric and plug-in hybrid models—grew 43%compared to the same period last year and accounted for 48% of all cars sold during September. The share of fully…

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VW ID.7 Pro S Covers 794 KM on One Battery Charge with 86-Kwh Battery (Net)

Driving the new all-electric ID.7 Pro S, the Volkswagen Team Switzerland headed by project lead Felix Egolf, an expert in long-distance driving with electric cars, successfully covered a total of 794 kilometers (493.4 miles) with a single battery charge in a net driving time of 15 hours and 42 minutes….

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Volkswagen Group of America Opens New Gulf Coast Hub in Freeport, Texas

Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) has opened a new port facility at Port Freeport in Texas. Port Freeport will import and process up to 140,000 vehicles for Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche, supporting approximately 300 dealers in the Central and Western United States. After consolidating two smaller facilities in…

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