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Motor Morsels: Stellantis, Chevy, Lordstown

Stellantis is taking on range anxiety, Chevy is taking on gravity and inertia, and Lordstown is taking on Foxconn.
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Motor Morsels: Stellantis, Chevy, Lordstown

🔌⚡️👍Stellantis is launching a 'Charging & Energy' unit to curb 'charging anxiety' and capitalize on the eco-mobility trend. They'll offer Free2move Charge, a platform granting access to over 500k charging points in Europe. Other services include home charging facility installation and a global public charging network.

All these self-driving platforms are in the works, and nobody has a roadside-robo-recharge planned? Really? 

🏋️‍♀️🪂🛻Chevy's Silverado EV debuts with a mammoth 200+kWh battery, providing 450+ mile range. This makes it stand out, though the battery weight raises the truck to 8500 lbs. Despite this, driving dynamics remain impressive. The Silverado EV work truck beats Ford's F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with 50% more battery. Other notable features include off-board power and DC fast charging. However, it won't sell for under $40,000 as initially planned. The truck is slated for fleet availability in the coming weeks.

8500 lbs, and a drag-racer-style parachute braking system (we assume)

😡👩‍⚖️💸Lordstown Motors hit Chapter 11 bankruptcy and slammed Foxconn with a lawsuit, alleging the Taiwanese giant skimped on a promised $170 million. Foxconn, last year's purchaser of Lordstown's Ohio factory, counter-threatened with its own legal action, citing misleading public statements by the EV maker. Shares crashed 60% on the news. 

The most important thing on a sinking ship is to figure out whose fault it the sinking was. Right?

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