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Lightning Systems electric shuttle buses now offered on CALACT purchasing contract

Green Car Congress

Communities throughout California can now purchase all-electric shuttle buses and ADA-equipped vans from Lightning Systems on a new California Association for Coordinated Transportation (CALACT) cooperative purchasing contract. Nonprofits or government agencies can use the new agreement to purchase electric buses once they join CALACT.

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Poll: Americans Are Less Interested in Buying an EV Than in 2023

The Truth About Cars

Flagging demand has led to cutbacks on new EV projects and investments in manufacturing facilities, and a recent Gallup poll shows that people who don’t already own an EV aren’t as interested in buying one as they were a year ago. EV ownership grew, with seven percent of Americans saying they own one, compared to four percent last year.

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Nissan offers Chevy Bolt EV drivers a deal to buy a new LEAF

Baua Electric

If you drive a Chevy Bolt EV or EUV model, Nissan wants you to buy (or lease) a new LEAF. Nissan is enticing Bolt EV drivers with a new incentive with the purchase or lease of a LEAF. With GM ending Chevy Bolt EV production at the end of 2023, Nissan wants to attract drivers with a new “LEAF Conquest” offer.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

How can you claim up to $7,500 off some new Tesla models at the time of purchase? With $7,500 of “retail bonus cash”—a rebate on purchases, not leases–the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 is much cheaper than the Tesla Model 3. Toyota also dismisses the viability of an affordable EV —in this case, specific to the European market.

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Study: People Want to Buy EVs but Costs Are Still Too High

The Truth About Cars

A recent study from KPMG found that most people are interested in buying an EV, but many cite affordability as a hurdle to ownership.& KPMG’s global automotive sector leader, Gary Silber, told Automotive News that “a lot of people are excited about the opportunity, but I don’t know how many people can afford it.”

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Comment on Nio may acquire assets JAC plans to sell and seek its own EV production qualification, report says by nov22

CN EV Post

The purchaser must have automaker credential, otherwise, the purchaser won't be able to use the assets for auto production. So the purchaser will be taking over the OEM contract and JAC's interest in joint venture. That leaves the only possibility that NIO is buying out JAC's asset and interest.

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‘Average Americans’ can’t afford EVs: Former White House official, others rip Buttigieg

Teslarati

The all-too-common myth that electric vehicles are not affordable to the average American is now being reignited by former Trump White House Communications Official Mercedes Schlapp, among others, who ripped Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for suggesting that the answer to rising gas prices was to buy an electric car.