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The deal is the first for Rivian after the company last month ended its exclusivity pact with largest shareholder Amazon for its delivery vans, opening the door for more customers. AT&T expects to start adding Rivian electric commercial vans, R1T pickup trucks, and R1S sport utility vehicles in its fleet in early 2024, they said in a statement.
The incentives, worth 2.627 billion pesos (USD 152.86 million) and approved by a state economic development council, include a reduction in Tesla's payroll tax. The automaker in March announced plans for a new factory in Nuevo Leon without providing a timeline for construction.
At a battery plant owned by Zeekr's parent Geely Holding Group in the province of Zhejiang, the company said its upcoming 007 sedan would be the first model to be equipped with the batteries, which charge sufficiently within 15 minutes to reach a driving range of 500 km (300 miles), together with an 800-voltage electric system.
California-based Lucid opened its first plant outside the United States in September, with an initial capacity to produce 5,000 EVs a year, after the Saudi government pledged to buy up to 100,000 vehicles from it over 10 years. "The car is fully built in Arizona ... then it gets de-assembled... then the car gets shipped here as a kit, and that kit is then put back together," Faisal Sultan, who is also Lucid's Global Vice-President, told Reuters.
Ather Energy: The program, ‘Ather Electric December’, is aimed at providing a seamless and hassle –free transition experience for EV enthusiasts with value-added services and accelerating the adoption of EVs in the country. The offers are valid on Ather’s best-selling scooter the 450X and the 450S till December 31, 2023, the company said.