{"id":31561,"date":"2022-09-16T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=31561"},"modified":"2022-09-16T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:03:53","slug":"1137175_ford-ends-ev-haggling-battery-for-600-mile-evs-state-charging-plans-approved-today-s-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=31561","title":{"rendered":"Ford ends EV haggling, battery for 600-mile EVs, state charging plans approved: Today\u2019s Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The federal EV charging network starts to take form with 35 state plans approved and funded. Ford is giving its dealerships a choice on selling EVs, but it means non-negotiable pricing. And could a dual-chemistry approach to EV batteries make a 600-mile range more accessible? This and more, here at <em>Green Car Reports.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ford has unveiled new rules for selling EVs under its Model E business unit, and they mean that, at least starting in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137162_ford-ev-markups-haggling-dealership-rules-starting-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">markups and haggling on Ford EVs might be history<\/a>. Dealers now face a decision between two tiers of EV sales, both around non-negotiable pricing, or they can choose to opt out and keep selling Ford\u2019s ICE vehicles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Biden administration yesterday announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137165_35-states-get-the-green-light-for-7-5-billion-national-ev-charging-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35 states\u2019 charging plans have been approved<\/a>, toward the $7.5 billion national EV charging network. Those states are now good to start installing stations, on the way to a network that will potentially include 500,000 chargers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the charging firm Our Next Energy (ONE) has revealed the cell tech behind the dual-chemistry battery pack it\u2019s claiming can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137163_battery-firm-one-cell-tech-600-mile-evs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the foundation for 600-mile EVs<\/a>, even in the form of trucks and SUVs. Its Gemini dual-chemistry setup will combine an anode-free chemistry with lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) cells, combining two cell types with some very different attributes.<\/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>The federal EV charging network starts to take form with 35 state plans approved and funded. Ford is giving its dealerships a choice on selling EVs, but it means non-negotiable pricing. And could a dual-chemistry approach to EV batteries make a 600-mile range more accessible? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.\u00a0 Ford has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31562,"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-31561","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\/31561","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=31561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}