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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Early in October, shockwaves rocked the auto and racing communities when yet another large auto company—this time, Honda—announced it was leaving Formula One, the 800-pound gorilla of the international racing world. Why? As Honda explained, the auto industry is now facing a “once-in-one-hundred-years period of great transformation,” and it was joining the exodus, moving to ZEV.

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Monday, October 26, 2020

(CNN)Once destined for closure, General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant has since been reborn with a new mission -- to solely build electric vehicles -- and a new name. On Friday, GM announced the plant will be called Factory Zero.

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Monday, October 26, 2020

Sick of the road noise and pollution caused by semitrucks barreling down the road near your house?

They could soon be harder to hear, and healthier for you and for the planet.

The 3.7 million heavy-duty trucks that ship goods to consumers, haul raw materials across the country and transport components for manufacturers have long been powered by diesel engines that emit pollution and create significant road noise.

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Sustainable technologies company Johnson Matthey (JM) is expanding its fuel cell operations in China with a new £7.5m facility to manufacture critical components for customers in the region.

Marking JM’s first fuel cell component production site outside the UK, the new plant will produce around four million MEA components, a vital part of the fuel cell stack, per annum – enough to power more than 10,000 commercial vehicles and buses

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Electric cars will cost the same to make as conventional cars, with internal combustion engines, by 2024 and an acceleration in the shift away from fossil fuel vehicles may be imminent, according to new research.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Ford Motor plans to launch its self-driving commercial business in 2022 with vehicles based on the Ford Escape Hybrid crossover, the company said Tuesday.

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Monday, October 19, 2020

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will invest $2 billion to convert its Spring Hill, Tennessee, factory to produce electric vehicles, starting with the new Cadillac Lyriq, alongside existing combustion-engine Cadillacs.

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Monday, October 19, 2020

New Jersey officials called last week for a ban on gas car sales by 2035, a move that would make the state the first outside California to enact such a policy.

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Saturday, October 17, 2020

A Facebook post claims that electric car batteries weigh approximately 1,000 pounds and require more than 500,000 pounds in raw materials to make. 

"Driving an electric-car won't save the planet," the meme states.

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

A newly formed coalition, made up of players in the heavy-duty hydrogen and fuel cell market, wants to increase the development and deployment of fuel cell electric technology across commercial sectors in 13 western US states.

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