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The move comes as a response to the Trump administration’s waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.
REEVs are staging a comeback with over 3 million vehicles expected to hit the road by 2030, with China leading, followed by US and EU.
Ford says it is "following the customer" in discontinuing its large electric pickup, which was well-received but never profitable. Ford will keep the Lightning name alive as a plug-in hybrid.
Ford's EV pullback will cost $20 billion, China looks to regulate car pricing and an ex-Porsche engineer will shake up Hyundai.
Smart has begun testing its Fortwo-inspired #2 electric vehicle in China as it rethinks its city-car ethos for global markets.
Ford CEO Jim Farley walked through Ford’s Michigan design studio Monday afternoon, reflecting on how he was about to wipe out thousands of work hours on electric vehicles that he and his team had hoped would revolutionize the American auto industry.
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A quarter mile of roadway in Detroit now doubles as a charger for electric vehicles, reports Brian Iselin in Men’s Journal.
As the European Union has looked to push carmakers towards electric vehicles, sales of EVs across the continent have been uneven, skewed more to northern and western countries, while nations further south and east have tended to lag.