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As part of its more than $30-billion investment in electrification through 2025, Ford is exploring all-electric, purpose-built law enforcement vehicles. Ford will use the pilot program testing as a benchmark while it continues to explore purpose-built electric police vehicles in the future.
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Acura announced that its first all-new full-electricSUV coming to market in 2024 will be named the Acura ZDX. The ZDX name pays homage to a previous Acura model of the same name, which was the first vehicle styled from the ground up in the Acura Design Studio which opened in Los Angeles in 2007. Earlier post.).
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