US-headquartered global car manufacturer Ford has announced that it will invest $11.4 billion to produce electric vehicles for the US market. The investment will allow Ford to build 4 new manufacturing facilities for electric vehicles and batteries, and create 11,000 jobs by 2025.

The automaker will build its biggest production facility in Tennessee and two battery packs in Kentucky. The projects will be implemented in partnership with the South Korean firm SK Innovation.

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The second of the Electric and Hybrid Driving Week, which was held for the first time in Turkey in 2019, will be held on the AutoDrom track area in Tuzla, Istanbul between 11-12 September 2021. With the main sponsorship of Sharz.net and the support of Garanti BBVA, Gersan, Honda, MG, Tragger, Toyota, Lexus and EniSolar, the event will be organized by the Turkish Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Association (TEHAD), with electric and hybrid vehicle models of many different brands.

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Germany has reached its target of one million registered battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, said the government in a press release. This means the country has reached its 2020-goal around about half a year later than originally planned.

Fifty-four percent of the registered electric vehicles are battery-electric, 46 percent plug-in hybrids, said the government. “Our transport will be irreversibly converted to renewable energies,” said economy minister Peter Altmaier and called reaching the target a “decisive milestone”.

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Zorlu Energy supports the ITU Electric Vehicle (Electric Vehicle) and ITU Solar Car (ITU ARIBA) teams, which were established within Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to develop electric vehicle technologies.

Adopting a way of doing business focused on electrification, digitalization, automation and decarbonization, Zorlu Energy also contributes to the dissemination of practices in the field of sustainability by standing by the young people of ITU who have signed high value-added projects in their fields.

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To achieve its target of having 3.5 million e-car charging stations, the EU will have to increase the rate of expansion thirtyfold at the very least, the industry-sponsored German Economic Institute (IW) said.

But expansion has stalled for years, writes Thomas Puls, IW senior economist for transport and infrastructure. In 2020 there were 225,000 public charging points in the EU, but 70 percent of them were in just three countries: the Netherlands, France and Germany.

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The new generation Astra, which will be the first model of Opel to switch to electric in the compact middle class, reveals the reinterpretation of the pure and powerful design philosophy of the brand, while also demonstrating the attention to detail in the new model.

Equipped with the latest Intelli-Lux LED® Pixel Headlight technology with 168 LED cells, the new Astra features 6-speed manual and 8-speed automatic transmission versions, efficient diesel and gasoline engines, and rich customization options.

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Stellantis (STLA.MI), the world’s No. 4 automaker, said on Thursday it plans to invest more than 30 billion euros ($35.54 billion) through 2025 on electrifying its vehicle lineup.

“This transformation period is a wonderful opportunity to reset the clock and start a new race,” Stellantis Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said on a webcast during the company’s “EV Day 2021” event. “The group is at full speed on its electrification journey.”

Stellantis said it is targeting more than 70% of sales in Europe and over 40% in the United States to be low-emission vehicles – either battery or hybrid electric – by 2030.

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Zorlu Energy Solutions (ZES), the electric charging station network that is one of Zorlu Energy’s biggest investments to implement new generation technologies, continues to expand the number of charging stations for electric vehicles throughout the country.

Electric vehicles, the use of which is increasing in Turkey as well as all over the world, are preferred by consumers due to their energy efficiency, performance, convenience, low operating costs, as well as being quiet, and they are spreading faster than expected.

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Researchers have increased the lifetime of a promising electric vehicle battery to a record level, an important step toward the goal of lighter, less expensive and long-lasting batteries for future electric vehicles. The work is reported June 28 in the journal Nature Energy.

Such batteries—the goal of research groups the world over—are seen as an important part of the solution to reduce the effects of climate change, and scientists are exploring a dizzying array of options.

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The sales figures of 100% electric and hybrid vehicles in the Turkish market have been announced. The number of electric cars sold in the first 6 months of 2021 has reached more than the whole of 2020.

In the first 6 months of 2020, 173 electric cars were sold. In the first 6 months of this year, it was 894 units. The sales figures of electric cars brought with the parallel import (gray market) method exceeded the sales of official distributors for the first time.

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TotalEnergies is partnering with Uber to support the transition to electric vehicles and easier access to charging stations. Initially, the partnership with France is planned to expand to other European countries.

TotalEnergies will issue a TotalEnergies card to drivers currently using the Uber app and equipped with electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grant access to charging points located at their service stations and in the electric vehicle charging station networks it operates.

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While the investment expenditures for electric and autonomous vehicles have been revised and increased for the third time by General Motors (GM), the US automobile company, 35 billion dollars will be invested in electric cars until 2025, in addition to 2 factories under construction, 2 battery factories in the USA. further implementation is planned.

Announcing that it will invest 20 billion dollars in electric cars at the beginning of 2020, GM increased its investment targets to 27 billion dollars in November, and this new revision is 75% more than the investment announced before the pandemic period and 30% more than the investment revised in November 2020.

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