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GM offers Chevy Bolt EV owners $6,000 if they promise not to sue over battery fire recall fiasco

August 2, 2022
General Motors has started offering Chevy Bolt EV owners a $6,000 refund as long as they promise not to sue over the battery fire recall fiasco of last year. In June, GM announced that the 2023 Chevy Bolt EV and EUV are getting a significant $6,000 price cut – this was surprising at a time when most automakers are raising the prices of electric vehicles. On the other hand, the Bolt EV and EUV…
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Lectric eBikes launches new 45% larger battery for popular low-cost Lectric XP 2.0 and 1.0 e-bikes

August 2, 2022
Faster and farther – those are two of the most common requests from many e-bike riders who rely on their bikes for daily trips. The e-bike is already quite fast at 28 mph (45 km/h), but now it is going farther than ever thanks to a big battery upgrade launched today by the manufacturer. Lectric eBikes’ new long-range battery Phoenix-based Lectric eBikes, the fast-growing company behind the…
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Toyota and Panasonic secure US lithium to boost EV capacity

August 2, 2022
Toyota Motors is boosting its US EV capacity with a new supply agreement with Ioneer LTD’s Rhyolite Ridge mining project. According to the new deal, Ioneer will supply 4,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate annually to the Toyota-Panasonic battery venture. Lithium, a critical component of EV batteries, is in high demand as electric vehicle sales continue to break records. The deal comes as a newly…
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Tesla deploys swimming pool at Supercharger station

August 2, 2022
Tesla has decided to deploy a swimming pool at a Supercharger station in Germany as the automaker is starting to invest more into amenities around its charging stations. But that’s a whole new level of charging amenities, even for Tesla. Last week, we reported that Tesla…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 1, 2022

August 2, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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