Keeping Up With EV Motoring October 4, 2021

October 4, 2021

Toyota’s autonomous division just bought the company that made a self-driving DeLorean do donuts The Verge   GM's Cruise, Alphabet's Waymo win permits to offer self-driving rides Reuters Goodyear invests in autonomous trucking company Gatik Fleet Equipment Magazine   Daimler, Torc move forward with autonomous trucks alliance Trucks Parts Service   Volvo Reveals Prototype Autonomous Truck for North America Heavy Duty Trucking   Self-driving startup Aurora maps out commercial strategy Reuters China's electric carmakers make their move on Europe Reuters Ford Will Build 4 Factories in a Big Electric Vehicle Push New York Times   GM's commercial EV unit to expand vehicle lineup, add Verizon as customer Reuters    Alabama electric car drivers show off their rides around the state AL.com   EV maker Polestar strikes $20-bln deal with Gores Guggenheim SPAC Reuters    Rolls-Royce teases 'historic announcement' for its electric car plans TechRadar   Fourteen Different Models of Plug-in Electric Small SUVs Were Available in Model Year 2021 U.S. Department of Energy   Rolls-Royce unveils first electric car, Spectre, and will go all-electric by 2030 Electrek

Electric Cars Have Hit an Inflection Point The Atlantic CapMetro Board approves one of the largest electric bus procurements in the U.S. Mass Transit Magazine WEX expands partnership with electric-vehicle charging giant Mainebiz   5 Midwestern governors agree to create a network to charge electric vehicles NPR   ABB launches world's fastest charger to plug into surging e-car market Reuters   Miami-Dade needs more electric vehicles on the road. New charging stations will help Miami Herald   As electric car sales surge in Pa., state eyes charging corridors on I-78, 80 and 81 Lehigh Valley Live   China's Geely to set up 5,000 battery swapping stations by 2025 Reuters   Nikola, OPAL Fuels Develop Hydrogen Fueling Stations NGT News   Lucid to start deliveries of electric cars with range exceeding Tesla's in October Reuters   PSEG plans $900M in upgrades to 'last-mile' reliability, EV infrastructure Utility Dive Ford making its biggest single manufacturing investment ever to build electric vehicle factories CNN Foxconn will build EVs for Lordstown Motors and Fisker at Ohio plant TechCrunch