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The pressure is ramping on automakers worldwide to become fully electric with their fleets to eliminate the need for fossil fuels in the US and abroad. Volvo Cars has announced that it is committed to being a leader in the premium electric car market and intends to become a fully electric car company by 2030. By 2030, the automaker will only sell fully electric cars and phase out any vehicle in its global portfolio that uses an internal combustion engine, including hybrids.

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As electric vehicles have become more common on roads around the country and the world, we've learned that being emissions-free doesn't mean giving up performance. Lordstown Motors is a company that will be producing an electric truck, and the company recently showed off a rendering of a concept Endurance racing truck that the company plans to enter in the San Felipe 250 off-road race in April.

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The past few weeks saw a rather amusing circus of reports, leaks, rumors, and speculation about who Apple will choose to work with to make the long-rumored "Apple Car" electric vehicle. A slip of the tongue may have cost Hyundai that prized position but, as always in the world of business, not everything is what it seems from the outside. Industry sources are now talking anew about how things may still work in Kia's favor but that partnership might not be what people or even shareholders expect it to be.

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Recalls in the automotive industry certainly aren't anything new; they happen all the time. What is new is a massive recall that impacts only electric vehicles issued recently by Hyundai Motor that will cost about $900 million. The recall will have Hyundai replacing battery systems in about 82,000 electric cars worldwide due to a risk of fire.

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The United States Postal Service has announced that it has awarded a contract to Oshkosh Defense worth multiple billions of dollars to modernize the postal delivery vehicle fleet. We've all seen the vehicles that the USPS uses currently as they deliver mail around cities all over the country. Under the contract award, Oshkosh Defense will finalize the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) design.

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This is it. You're looking at the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5, the first all-electric vehicle built using the automaker's Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). Ioniq 5 is also the first all-new electric vehicle from Hyundai's Ioniq sub-brand. Starting life as the 45 EV Concept in 2019, the Ioniq 5 is essentially a concept coming to life, and it brought along a host of tech features befitting of a modern EV.

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In a surprising turn of events, it seems the Mercedes-Benz EQC is not arriving in the United States anytime soon. Instead, Mercedes is pining for the EQS to be the first all-electric vehicle in the USA to wear the three-pointed star badge. According to a recent article by Autoblog, Mercedes-Benz canceled the EQC electric crossover’s U.S. production debut after delaying the initial launch last year.

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The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 will make its global debut on February 23, 2021, but Hyundai can’t stop itself from releasing teaser images of its newest all-electric crossover. The automaker unveiled a single image of the Ioniq 5’s interior recently after teasing us with the car’s exterior last month.

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Alpha Motor Corporation has unveiled an exciting new electric crossover utility vehicle known as the Jax Crossover Utility Vehicle. JAX stands for Junior All-terrain Crossover, and it's a utility vehicle meant to carry four passengers with all-road performance, durability, and completely clean power. Alpha offers the JAX in four-wheel drive or front-wheel drive configurations.

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Ford’s newest Mustang Mach-E vs. Everything campaign aims to shatter customer misconceptions on all-electric vehicles. According to Ford and Google Trends, automotive comparison searches using the “versus” keyword went up 64-percent in the past year, with most queries centering on electric vehicles.

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EVgo operates the largest public fast-charging network for electric vehicles in the nation. The company has announced that it is expanding its charging network to offer support for Tesla vehicles at more of its stations across the country. The company will upgrade hundreds of its stations with integrated Tesla connectors.

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Micro Mobility Systems or Micro will begin producing its Microlino 2.0 electric microcar by September this year. The first concept made waves at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. Microlino 1.0 came with the original Isetta bubble car’s retro-flavored body style on top of a tubular frame underneath, with production to begin in late 2018.

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