EV battery manufacturing for BMW is establishing south of the border. Ram goals to scale up its hydrogen fuel-cell muscle. And why do rural governments see EV charging as much less essential? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Studies. 

BMW has began constructing a battery plant in Mexico that may present extra energy-dense cylindrical cells for longer vary and quicker charging in next-generation Neue Klasse EVs. If Inflation Discount Act guidelines stay, the merchandise may finally qualify for the EV tax credit score. 

As a part of a business automobile push, Stellantis plans a hydrogen fuel-cell Ram heavy-duty truck. Though particulars are but to return, the choice to push properly into the medium-duty sector with gasoline cells coincides with different automakers’ choices to shift away from fuel-cell passenger autos. 

And in what is perhaps yet one more instance of an urban-rural divide, a current College of Michigan survey instructed that EV charging is seen as much less related to rural communities than to cities. Whereas extra native governments have an interest versus a model of this survey in 2019, they’re nonetheless involved about value.

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