{"id":15106,"date":"2022-02-10T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2022-02-10T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:04:47","slug":"1135035_volvo-mega-casting-faraday-future-mass-market-ev-global-plug-in-sales-today-s-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15106","title":{"rendered":"Volvo mega casting, Faraday Future mass-market EV, global plug-in sales: Today\u2019s Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Faraday Future hasn\u2019t made a delivery yet, but it sees a \u201chigh volume production\u201d model in 2024. EV sales on a global basis are growing fast. And Volvo is sounding a bit like Tesla with \u201cmega casting\u201d for EVs. This and more, here at <em>Green Car Reports.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><strong\/><\/strong>Volvo has announced that it\u2019s adopting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1135030_volvo-plans-tesla-style-mega-casting-shifts-to-evs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a \u201cmega casting\u201d method for making electric vehicles<\/a>, helping to boost efficiency and sustainability and make better use of interior space. It\u2019s part of a revamp for its largest plant, in Sweden, as it pivots toward EVs\u2014and yes, it appears to align closely with what Tesla has pioneered for volume production in the Model Y.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><strong\/><\/strong>The future of Faraday Future took yet another interesting turn yesterday, with the announcement that the South Korean auto parts supplier Myoung Shin is under contract to assemble Faraday\u2019s somewhat smaller, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1135029_faraday-future-ff-81-ev-volume-production-2024-gm-south-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cluxury mass-market electric vehicle,\u201d the FF 81<\/a>. It claims it will reach \u201chigh volume production\u201d in 2024. The facility is a former GM plant originally opened to make the Daewoo Nubira, and recently on deck to make the first vehicle from another troubled EV startup\u2014Byton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><strong\/><\/strong>And according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), global electric vehicle sales (BEVs plus plug-in hybrids) rose to about 9% in 2021. That amounts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1134999_global-ev-sales-more-than-doubled-in-2021-vs-2020-tripled-vs-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">double the EV sales of 2020<\/a>, and triple those of 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Green Car Reports on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenCarReports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greencarreports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faraday Future hasn\u2019t made a delivery yet, but it sees a \u201chigh volume production\u201d model in 2024. EV sales on a global basis are growing fast. And Volvo is sounding a bit like Tesla with \u201cmega casting\u201d for EVs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.\u00a0 Volvo has announced that it\u2019s adopting a \u201cmega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}