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First drive in the electric Jaguar E-Type from ECD Automotive Design: A welcomed upgrade

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Just over a year after my last visit, I recently got the chance to visit my friends at ECD Automotive Design down in central Florida and take their latest EV conversion – the all-electric Jaguar E-Type for a spin. As always, there were tons of new and exciting happenings at ECD, as it continues to learn, grow, and delve further into electrification. Read more…

Nissan is ramping up EV production at its UK factory—but will it have enough batteries?

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The beleaguered English auto industry got some good news this week, as Nissan and its partners announced plans to invest some £2 billion to build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory, which employs about 6,000 workers (and indirectly supports thousands more). To support the new EV production, a new battery gigafactory will be… Read more…

Pickering Electronics releases new high-voltage SMD reed relays

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Pickering Electronics, a manufacturer of reed relays, has introduced new high-voltage surface-mount reed relays for semiconductor testers, medical equipment testing, EV charge point testing and monitoring solar cell PV efficiency. The new Series 219 high-voltage surface-mount device (SMD) reed relay can switch up to 1 kV and is the only surface-mount high-voltage relay available on… Read more…

Will reengineered battery packs for Rivian R1S, R1T lower prices?

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Green Car Reports
Rivian is developing a simplified battery-pack structure for its R1S electric SUV and R1T electric pickup truck, CFO Claire McDonough said in a recent interview. Around the 14-minute mark in the roughly 40-minute interview, conducted during Barclays’ 2023 Global Automotive & Mobility Tech Conference (and first spotted by Electrek), McDonough… Read more…

NIO Day 2023 promises a new flagship EV model, could it be the ultra-luxe ET9?

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We currently sit three weeks away from NIO Day 2023, the annual event held by one of China’s leading EV automakers that caps off the year with new and exciting technologies to come. We know NIO intends to unveil a new flagship model during the event and it’s rumored to be the automaker’s top-of-the-line sedan, possibly named the ET9. Here’s what we know. Read more…

Should we all embrace Japan’s kei car model – small, cheap, but not exactly safe?

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A new breed of electric vehicles is drawing inspiration from Japanese kei cars, tiny cubes-on-wheels that are highway-legal but not likely to pass muster with US or EU safety standards. But what if we loosened up those standards to help lower prices, enabling broader adoption of EVs to people who don’t have 30 grand or more to spend on a car? That is, at least, one of the ideas that French automaker Renault’s head Luca de Meo has put on the table.Â. Read more…

US EV sales top 1 million in a year for the first time ever

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ArenaEV
Electric vehicles have crossed 1 million sales in a year in the US for the first time ever. According to the National Automotive Dealer Association (NADA), through 11 months (January – November 2023), battery electric vehicle sales are 1,007,984 – a 50.7% increase year-over-year. And, the year’s not done yet, which will push the record further. Per NADA’s report, 51.2%… Read more…

2024 Lucid Air: Revamped Grand Touring range leader coming soon

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Green Car Reports
Lucid on Tuesday announced a number of changes to the 2024 Lucid Air lineup, which now starts at $78,900 with destination. That base price is $5,000 lower than before, but that’s because all-wheel drive is no longer standard on the base Air Pure model. The Pure launched with all-wheel drive, but a rear-wheel drive version that launched in October… Read more…