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Ford announced yesterday the temporary cancellation of a shift at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, citing supply chain constraints among other issues. The shift that is being cut will be rotated, the brand added. The cut will affect Ford F-150 Lightning production, and impact about 700 jobs, Reuters reported. The Detroit carmaker said the cut was unrelated to the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. The brand reported that it was “working through processing and delivering vehicles held for quality checks after restarting production in August.” Ford sold a record number of EVs in Q3 2023, but F-150 Lightning…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Zimbabwe’s national statistics agency, Zimstat, recently released its Transport Statistics Report for the 2nd Quarter of 2023. The report says as of June 30, 2023, light motor vehicles (up to 2,300 kg) accounted for 76.5% of the 1,583,700 registered vehicles in the country. Zimbabwe has a population of approximately 16 million people, according to the last census. The Transport Statistics Report also shared the annual vehicle registration data since 2018 for the various vehicle segments. Here we will zone in on the light vehicle…
Despite the Tesla Cybertruck being heavily spied on and publicized, several of its details remain obscure. However, the enthusiast community continues to unearth relevant nuggets of information to pique our interests, and thanks to them we now have additional clues about the Cybertruck’s dimensions. A reservation holder walked straight up to a stationary Cybertruck that he spotted charging and measured it using household tape – the same one that you might use to measure home furniture. He posted the results on the Cybertruck Owners Club online forum, revealing a rear bumper width of 72 inches and an overall width of…
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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! At 10:00 AM PST on October 16, 2023, customers in the US will be able to place an order for a Kia EV9, one of the first battery-electric three-row SUVs available in America. The highly anticipated new EV from Kia has generated lots of interest, but until now, few specifics about pricing and trim levels were available. That information is now provided via a company press release. Let’s get right to the pricing part, since that’s what most shoppers want to know about first:…
New passenger car registrations in France increased in September by nine percent year-over-year to 153,916, taking the year-to-date total to 1,286,247 (up 16 percent year-over-year). The market has been expanding every month this year (recovering slightly from the 2020-2022 collapse) and also is becoming more and more electrifying thanks to increasing plug-in electric car sales. According to L’Avere-France, last month 45,872 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in France (35 percent more than a year ago), which represented almost 30 percent of the market. That’s a new record share for rechargeable cars and a noticeable jump compared to just…
Which company revealed several upcoming affordable EVs? For EV shoppers, why is leasing a more popular vs. buying than it was last year? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 13, 2023. Kia has provided full pricing details for the upcoming 2024 EV9 three-row electric SUV. While the EV9 Light with an expected 225-mile range starts at $56,495, the 300-mile Light Long Range starts at $60,695 and the top-trim GT-Line model goes for $75,395. That means all of the versions will slot under the $80,000 ceiling of the…
Ice cream trucks evoke a certain nostalgia that is difficult to replicate. But at a time when large combustion engine trucks are being replaced left and right, what is to come of cold confection slinging vehicles? Perhaps they can be replaced by this Vespa-looking ice cream scooter instead. It’s not technically a Vespa, though it certainly has that vintage vibe. It’s actually from a company named Xuchang Zhenda Machinery Co., and I since I found them perusing China’s largest online shopping site, it makes a great addition to the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. The three-wheeled refrigerator…
Two of the lines will begin mass production this year, while the other is expected to reach mass production by October 2024. https://img.cnevpost.com/2023/10/14105236/2023101402523649.mp3 (Image credit: Comau) Nio (NYSE: NIO) has added three electric drive system (EDS) production lines in preparation for future capacity expansion, especially after the launch of the sub-brand codenamed Alps. Italian automation specialist Comau delivered flexible EDS automated assembly lines to Nio that will allow the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker’s third-generation induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors to be co-produced on the lines, the Italian company, which is part of the Stellantis Group, said in…
California governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed legislation that mandates all new school buses in the state to be electric starting in 2035. California already led the US in electric school bus adoption with over 2,078 committed electric buses across the state, at least 34% of which are already delivered or operating. And with Newsom’s sign-off on Assembly Bill 579, it’s now the fifth state to mandate electric school buses, joining Connecticut, Maryland, Maine, and New York. Where the money’s coming from for electric school buses California estimates its price tag will be around $5 billion to complete the state’s transition to…