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Electric Vehicles / Fuel Cell Vehicles

GM, Nikola in fuel cell deal for heavy trucks; Nikola kills pickup program

DETROIT—Officials at General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced that it had signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Phoenix, Ariz.-based Nikola Corp. (Nasdaq: NKLA) for a global supply agreement to …

Electric Vehicles

GM to spend $27B rolling out 30 new EVs

DETROIT—Officials at General Motors Co. announced plans to spend more than $27 billion to roll out 30 new electric vehicles over the next five years. The company said that during …

Economic Development / Electric Vehicles

Ohio electric truck maker picks Michigan for R&D center

LANSING—Michigan continues to claim its position as the automotive capital of the world with the announcement from Ohio-based Lordstown Motors Corp. on plans to establish an automotive research and development …

Battery Technology / Economic Development / Electric Vehicles

New truck, bus electrification engineering center gets state support

LANSING—The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved a $500,000 Michigan Business Development Fund performance-based grant to support a $4.17 million project to build a new “eMobility Center” in Rochester Hills for …

Electric Vehicles / Manufacturing / Real Estate

Bollinger Motors moves to new HQ

OAK PARK—Bollinger Motors has announced a move of its headquarters to a larger building in Oak Park to accommodate the rapid company-wide personnel expansion as it ramps up toward production. …

Electric Vehicles / Utilities / Wind Energy

CMS buys wind farm, opens charging stations

JACKSON—Two green energy moves Friday by Jackson-based CMS Energy Co. and its subsidiary, Consumers Energy. First, Consumers Energy announced that the first PowerMIDrive fast charging stations for electric vehicles are …

Electric Vehicles / Utilities

Northern Michigan’s first fast-charge EV station installed

TRAVERSE CITY—Blain’s Farm & Fleet, in partnership with Cherryland Electric Cooperative, celebrated the installation of the first universal DC Fast-Charge electric vehicle station in northern Michigan last week. The two …

Electric Vehicles / Patents / Startups

Bollinger Motors gets patent for unique vehicle openings

FERNDALE—Bollinger Motors announced it had been granted United States Patent No. US20190351950A1 on two uniquely named features of its electric truck—called “Passthrough” and “Frunkgate.” Both features harness the opportunity, presented …

Electric Vehicles / Startups

Bollinger Motors to build electric chassis cab truck

FERNDALE—Bollinger Motors, the electric truck developer, Thursday announced plans to manufacture and sell an all-electric chassis cab truck called the B2 Chassis Cab. The company says the truck is the …

Autonomous Vehicles / Consumer Sentiment / Electric Vehicles

J.D. Power finds consumers skeptical of autonomous cars, EVs

TROY—Consumer confidence in future mobility technologies lags far behind automakers’ plans to bring self-driving and battery-electric vehicles to the marketplace, according to the J.D. Power 2020 Q1 Mobility Confidence Index …

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