It's EV News briefly for Monday the 14th of July. Everything in less than five minutes.

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occupational hazard of having two small children. A BMW is raising the bar for electric vehicle

reliability using new AI-driven inspections for a zero-defect approach to batteries in their new Neuer-classer line.

Every cell being individually inspected before assembly with strict quality checks tracking each step, they say.

Luxury automaker Cadillac says that they are on target and committed to electric vehicles, saying that

with the tax credit going, buyers of more luxury vehicles are less price sensitive and they have a lot

of confidence. The EU is investing €852 million in EV production, battery production in

various countries from France to Germany, Sweden, Poland and more.

Mercedes-Benz previewed the fully electric GLC SUV, ahead of its IAA debut, which is going to be in Munich on

September the 7th. It's all part of their new 800-volt platform rear-wheel steering, 320-kil DC fast charging, and the GLC 4004-Matic will tow up to

2.4 tons with some advanced stability towing options as well. The rim at Navares R just broke a bunch

of records, 24 new world records, pretty much the records that the Nevera set in the first place, including the 0-400-0 time.

That is, as you can imagine, starting from scratch, going to 400 kilometres an hour and then back down to zero again.

Whole thing takes you 26 seconds, which is probably about as long as it's taken me to explain it.

The 200 mile an hour time is now dispatched in 9 seconds.

If you really, really can't wait till 10 seconds to get to 200 miles an hour, you'll want one of these.

Only of which 40 will be made. You should probably write a check

to Mate Rimmats for 2.3 million euros for one of them. The UK government is investing in

EVs. How Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander turned up on Sunday morning political TV yesterday

and talked about £63 million for charging infrastructure upgrade. Local

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