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Fisker hires new manufacturing head

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Fisker has appointed Alpay Uguz as Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing with immediate effect. Prior to joining the electric car manufacturer, Alpay Uguz worked at BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina as general manager for the brand’s SUVs. t Fisker, he will now oversee the company’s global manufacturing and is expected to realise the […] More…

The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan [update]

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Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of net-zero by 2050. Why does he oppose it. More…

VinFast receives $1.2B in incentives from North Carolina to build US plant, the largest economic package in state history

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Earlier today, before its simultaneous opening of six stores in California, VinFast announced it has received a massive incentives package to build its EV manufacturing facility in North Carolina. $1.2 billion (with a “b”) to be exact – the largest incentive package in the history of The Old North State. More…

A new sodium-ion battery breakthrough means they may one day power EVs

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Sodium-ion batteries have great promise. They’re energy dense, nonflammable, and operate well in colder temperatures, and sodium is cheap and abundant. Plus, sodium-based batteries will be more environmentally friendly and even less expensive than lithium-ion batteries are becoming now. Sodium-ion battery performance has been limited because of poor durability, but this is about to change for the better.. More…

VinFast simultaneously opens six stores in California today with dozens more on the way

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In true VinFast fashion, it doesn’t do anything small. Rather than opening its first showroom in the US today, the Vietnamese EV automaker is opening six VinFast stores at once – all in California. With over thirty locations planned for the Sunshine State alone and intentions to expand deeper into the US, VinFast is once again truly moving – fast. More…

Volvo Trucks to construct charging network throughout California for medium- and heavy-duty EVs

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Volvo Trucks North America is joining forces with a bunch of other companies, including Shell Recharge, to implement a fast-charging network on the West Coast dedicated to supporting medium- and heavy-duty commercial EVs. The California Electrified Charging Corridor will combine several major metropolitan cities across Northern and Southern California with high-powered charging infrastructure. More…