Lincoln Motor Company has announced it is working with Rivian to develop an all-new electric vehicle featuring connected and intuitive technologies, based on Rivian’s skateboard platform.

“Working with Rivian marks a pivotal point for Lincoln as we move toward a future that includes fully electric vehicles,” said Joy Falotico, president, Lincoln Motor Company. “This vehicle will take Quiet Flight to a new place – zero emissions, effortless performance and connected and intuitive technology. It’s going to be stunning.”

The new zero-emissions vehicle is part of Ford’s recently agreed investment in Rivian and its previously announced investment of more than US$11.5bn into electrification, which includes the Mustang Mach-E and a fully electric version of the F-150 pickup

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Those headlines above tell you just about everything GMC is ready to share at this point about Hummer's resurrection as an electric pickup truck. That is, aside from the photo you see here of the truck's front end and four 15-second videos (watch them below) that will presumably comprise a promised Super Bowl ad for it. One thing's for sure—the truck could be even more awesome-looking than we imagined.

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The wait for a new Nissan Z sports car is almost over. As we approach the arrival of a replacement for the long-in-the-tooth 370Z—finally!—the rumour mill is running at full capacity, giving us some exciting tidbits about the new two-seater's powertrains, platform, and design. Here is what we expect from the new Z…

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There's no lack of hype surrounding autonomous vehicles in Silicon Valley. Today, autonomous-vehicle startup Cruise Automation ratcheted up the self-driving buzz even more by unveiling the electric driverless bus shown here. The company says it expects its Level 5 (autonomous without steering wheel and pedals) vehicle to start offering rides via a Cruise pilot program.

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Ford rustled more than a few feathers when it revealed the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E late last year, but it wasn't because anyone had beef with the idea of a sporty, all-electric SUV. What most took issue with was the model being branded as a Mustang.

General Motors is currently carrying out its own electric-vehicle strategy…

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Nipping infinite rumors in the bud, Subaru confirmed the Outback, the Forester, the BRZ, the WRX STI, and every other car it makes will go electric or disappear by the middle of the 2030s. The Japanese automaker announced it plans to kick gasoline-powered cars out of its global portfolio in about 15 years' time.

The announcement comes in the wake of ever-stricter emissions regulations around the globe, notably in China and in the European Union. The firm isn't going to turn the tap off overnight, though. Toyota owns an 8.7% stake in Subaru, and the two partners are jointly developing a pair of electric cars due out during the 2020s. Others will inevitably follow. By 2030, hybrid and electric models will represent at least 40% of Subaru's annual global output…

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General Motors announced today plans to invest $40 million in the Spring Hill Global Propulsion Systems (GPS) plant to increase capacity of the 5.3L V8 engines for GM’s full-size truck and SUV programs.

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For Hyundai’s Genesis luxury division, the GV80 SUV unveiled Tuesday at a private media event in Seoul, South Korea, might as well be the brand’s launch vehicle.

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“The Wall Street Journal reports that the Hummer name is making a comeback within General Motors, and will be applied to an electric pickup. We'd heard rumors and speculation for the past year that Hummer was set to return to GM's portfolio after a long hiatus—the brand was shuttered in 2010 in the face of high gas prices and the automaker's bankruptcy—but the WSJ says it has firm timelines for the brand's reemergence, as well as a blockbuster marketing plan that's already in place.”

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Entertainment giant Sony revealed its interest in furthering a variety of mobility technologies at CES this week and unveiled the company's prototype vehicle.

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The aging Dodge Durango will get a mild hybrid model in 2020 on its current platform.

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Big changes are reportedly in store for everybody’s favourite off-road brand, Jeep.

The company’s entire lineup is on track to get electrified by 2022, Jeep global president Christian Meunier revealed to Australia’s Car Advice at the debut of the 2020 Gladiator…

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Ferrari’s chief executive confirmed mid-December that an electric vehicle will wear the brand’s Prancing Horse, but only after 2025, when it’ll slot into the GT lineup alongside the company’s V12s.

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Luxury car manufacturer Bentley Motors is constructing a new engineering test facility at its headquarters in Crewe, UK.

Due for completion in a year’s time, the centre will cover nearly 5,000m2 over two floors. This will be divided up into office space, a dedicated laboratory for monitoring vehicle emissions, a technical conformity department, and a space housing a climate-controlled chassis dynamometer.

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Audi is to invest €12bn (US$13.3bn) of its five-year €$37bn (US$41bn) R&D budget on electric mobility. By reassigning funds from the Audi Transformation Plan (ATP), another €6bn (US$6.6bn) will be invested by 2029.

In the first phase of investment, Audi aims to apportion funds to the 30 electrified models in its range, of which 20 will be fully electric by the middle of the next decade. In the same five-year timeframe, Audi believes 40% of its sales will be electric or hybrid vehicles, but this can only be achieved by working with Porsche to develop architectures for premium electric cars. Audi will then team up with Volkswagen to develop a modular e-drive system.

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“ It’s great to have options in life, if you don’t like the looks of the Tesla Cybertruck then you can choose the next best thing, a Neuron EV Electric car or pickup-truck, I mean it can be anything that you want. I’ll explain. “

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“Tesla's intergalactically anticipated Cybertruck has finally poked its pointy beak through the cover it's been hiding under, and it's a pickup that looks like no other. In fact, the Tesla truck appears not merely to have broken cover but to have teleported from a different solar system entirely. However, once you get past the Cybertruck's initial visual impact—Is it a UFO? A mutant doorstop? A children's drawing of a vehicle?—there remains several light years' worth of details that confound and delight. Here are the top 13 things you probably missed after a first glimpse of the Cybertruck seared off your corneas.”

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“Lordstown Motors, the company who is acquiring GM’s Lordstown factory, claims it is going to beat Tesla to market with an all-electric pickup.

They opened reservations the same day Tesla is unveiling its own pickup truck and they unveiled images as well.

Lordstown Motors is affiliated with Workhorse, which has been working on its own plug-in hybrid pickup truck.

The former plans to use EV technologies from the latter in order to build its own electric pickup truck, which we’ve now learned will be all-electric…”

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“After the Model T brought mobility to the masses, the Mustang brought muscle to the masses. Fifty-five years later, we did it again. There's a new Mustang joining the stable. Not just a new model. An all-new vehicle. The all-new, all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E.* *By completing the reservation process, you are not ordering or purchasing a vehicle.”

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