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Rivian’s Backstory

Here’s a great video put together telling the origin story of Rivian. A 26 year old starts a billion dollar car company from nothing.. pretty incredible story.

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Lucid Air Shoots for the Sky

Still prototyping building out their factory.. but promising big things. The biggest being a more efficient battery.. able to eek out a 400 mile range. I hope it’s true. At that point the talk of range anxiety should vanish. https://electrek.co/2020/02/05/lucid-air-tesla-range-efficiency/

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Lucid Air Luxury Car

400 mile range @ 200mph with 1000hp. Seems reasonable. Supposedly all of this can be yours for only $60k. Lucid took in over $1B in funding from a group in Saudi so it’s certainly possible this could happen.

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Tesla releases new design drawing

This came along with an announcement to product a “Chinese” inspired design to be delivered around the world. As always, details from Tesla are sparse.

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FISKER OCEAN SUV

I still struggle with the term SUV for vehicles like this.. looks like a car to me. Aren’t we stretching the term a bit? Regardless, it’s exciting to see more electric car startups getting closer to production.. and at a reasonable price. The Fisker Ocean should be available late 2021 or early 2022. It has […]

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2020 AUDI E-TRON PRESTIGE

At $76,000 this isn’t a beginner’s electric SUV, but it is the first one from Audi. It won’t win awards for range at 200+ miles but it does get kudos for looking like a beautiful car and not falling into the “needs to look like it’s from the future” thing. It’s fairly mainstream, which is […]

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Sony Announces Surprise Electric Car

There is little to no information available about this new sedan.. but the news is that this was a complete surprise.. to everyone. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/01/06/sony-shocks-announces-electric-car/

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Tesla Model 3

The Tesla’s Model 3 finally completed Elon Musk’s grand vision of selling a premium long range electric car at the magical $35k price point.

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Volvo’s Polestar 2

“With the Polestar 2 we are going all electric and we aren’t looking back.” – Volvo

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Porche Macan Electric

Porche is investing $3.6B in converting their line of cars to electric. The popular Macan is going to be the next inline to receive the electric treatment.