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Jeep teases new Wrangler all-electric BEV concept vehicle to be unveiled soon

Jeep teases the upcoming unveiling of a new Wrangler all-electric BEV concept vehicle, which could soon lead to a production version. At Electrek, we rarely report on FCA, which is now part of the new Stellantis entity created by FCA’s merger with PSA, because their electrification plan has rarely delivered beyond compliance cars and plug-in hybrids, but that might finally be about to…
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Quick Charge Podcast: February 8, 2021

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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Tesla CEO Elon Musk puts up promised $100 million toward carbon capture through XPRIZE

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is following through with his promise to offer $100 million for the best carbon capture technology through a new XPRIZE challenge. Elon Musk promoting carbon capture Carbon capture, which is also called “carbon capture and storage” (CCS), are processes that involve capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) at the source of emission and sequestrating in order for it to not leak into…
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Here’s how Harley’s new electric motorcycle division could save the company

Harley-Davidson’s progressive new CEO Jochen Zeitz made two big announcements last week: A separate new division was opening within the company to focus purely on electric motorcycles, and Q4 2020 saw a dramatic drop in revenue. The latter is certainly a problem, but the former is the solution. There’s no doubt about it; Harley-Davidson is facing a demographic problem. A large chunk of its…
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