And with having competition it also leads to who can make the best product at the lowest cost. So it will help make EVs cheaper.
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That 300k/per car could have been going to R&D for Gravity. Since from what every video i have watched don gravity, it seems they poured a-lot of cash into it.
BMW will be using zonal architecture in their "Neue Klasse" cars.
Four “Superbrains“ for the Neue Klasse by BMW
Smarter, more efficient, more powerful: The BMW Group presents an innovative combination of soft- and hardware for the Neue Klasse. Find out more about its four superbrains.
Agreed and BMW spent money on their own R&D. Helps give EV “start-ups” a bit of an edge over say the Big 3 that can use ICE sales to support their EV growth vs the start ups relying on investors $$. Now we will see what happens with Tesla, Lucid and Slate and any other viable start upsBMW will be using zonal architecture in their "Neue Klasse" cars.
Four “Superbrains“ for the Neue Klasse by BMW
Smarter, more efficient, more powerful: The BMW Group presents an innovative combination of soft- and hardware for the Neue Klasse. Find out more about its four superbrains.www.bmwgroup.com
VW is planning on investing $5.8B in Rivian by 2027, so I think they smell a winner despite developing their own vehicles that will compete in the same space.
To be fair that is also what has been happening to Rivian, they were eating a LOT of amortized costs for the tooling and plant for the R1 family.
I live about 20 minutes from the Rivian factory. They are shutting down the end of the year for a little bit to get ready to start building the R2 in 2026. The city here also gave them another big incentive recently for more expansion. They just keep growing here, which is great.
I'm still waiting for an In-N-Out to open in Albuquerque! We do have a Trader Joes though!
I did my undergrad not to far away in Peoria, man has it really been crazy watching how the area has changed in the past 10 years
Maybe this will be fords first reliable thing. They seem to never get a gas engine that survives for long before needing to be replaced. And GM seems to also be falling into the trench of bad engines like ford had been in for years.
Rivian's Local Farmers Market. A rip off version of trader joes.City should throw that in with next expansion
Only took him 100 days to ease the auto tariffs and threats.
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Isuzu starts mass producing its first all-electric pickup truck
Up to 224 miles of range around town.
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Looks like a subie!Isuzu
Isuzu starts mass producing its first all-electric pickup truck
Up to 224 miles of range around town.
One thing i will never understand is how we have isuzu Commercial trucks but we cant have their passenger road vehicles.
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Not too bad looking. No Scout-but not badIsuzu
Isuzu starts mass producing its first all-electric pickup truck
Up to 224 miles of range around town.
Isuzu makes good stuff. I miss seeing them on the road. I always liked the Trooper and Rodeo. Many of the Hitachi excavators we sell have Isuzu engines.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves is proposing an additional $200 Federal EV Registration Fee and $100 Federal Registration Fee for hybrids.
The committee will be voting on it today, April 30th.
This Federal Registration Fee would be in addition to your local and state registration fees.
The committee will be voting on it today, April 30th.
This Federal Registration Fee would be in addition to your local and state registration fees.
- Ends free rides for electric vehicles (EVs) and ensures they begin paying into the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for their use of the nation’s highways.
- The HTF is the main funding source for federal surface transportation programs and is funded by user-fees. Drivers help pay for their use of the nation’s roads when they pay this user fee through an excise tax on gasoline. Since EVs do not use gas, they do not pay this user fee, and this inequity contributes to a growing shortfall in the HTF.
- Working to close the shortfall will help ensure that the HTF reduces the need for future bailouts from the general fund to make up the shortfall.
- By leveraging states’ existing registration systems, the bill assesses an annual registration fee of $200 on EVs and $100 on hybrids (which currently pay a lesser share into the HTF) to ensure they pay for their use of the nation’s roads and bridges.
- 39 states currently assess electric vehicle registration fees and 28 states also assess fees on hybrids.
- The bill will also assess a $20 annual registration fee on all other passenger vehicles beginning in 2031. This is the first step towards House Republicans’ surface transportation reauthorization goal of repealing and replacing the broken gas tax and federal excise tax structure that has left the HTF bankrupt.
- Together, these new user fees are expected to increase federal revenues by a conservative estimate of approximately $50 billion over ten years, all of which will be deposited into the HTF.
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