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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

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Ditto the smaller H3, priced to be the sales leader. But the Hummer, approved in August 2018, will be the first one to start rolling off the lines at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, late in 2021. The Hummer EV will get GM noticed by parts of the buying public that couldn’t care less about small hatchback EVs.

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Rental Review: 2024 Chevrolet Trax LT

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Call me conservative, call me cheap, call me a dinosaur clinging desperately to a long-gone Western culture in which Detroit was king and foreign cars were built for ants, but low-rung offerings from Chevrolet have, more often than not, proved themselves profoundly livable vehicles. Plus, foam padding is a cheap buy at Lowes.

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV: Chevy’s lowest-priced electric car gets a big brother

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New role: value pricing. That said, the Bolt EUV is an appealing small electric car at a reasonable starting price of $34,000. That’s substantially lower than the price tag of last year’s Bolt EV, and the updated smaller Bolt itself is going to drop more than $5,000, to come in at a starting price of $32,000.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

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It was all-new for the 2018 model year, and was engineered from the start to accommodate 2021’s PHEV version. The Wrangler may be selling in higher volumes (and at higher prices) than ever, but the mystique remains strong. One “Jeep guy” wrote, “I didn’t buy the 4xe because it was a hybrid. Plug-in planned from Day One.

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Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

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There's also a £160-million scheme mimicking the United States' defunct Cash-4-Clunkers designed to pay people to destroy their old cars to buy new ULEZ compliant models (which admittedly sounds like it's just going to create more pollution). Basically, you need to be driving an electric vehicle or be prepared to spend £12.50

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. The question really is how quickly, at what price point, safety levels and manufacturing defects." So much for "range anxiety."

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Lordstown recordsdata for chapter, sues Foxconn

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Lordstown contends Foxconn is balking at buying spare stocks of its retain as promised and misled the EV maker about participating on automobile construction plans. The Lordstown manufacturing facility in Northeast Ohio used to be previously a GM small-car manufacturing facility that GM determined to related in November 2018.

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