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With the investigation still underway and the cause of the Mercedes fire yet to be identified, some carmakers, including Hyundai, General Motors and Porsche have taken the matter into their own hands by voluntarily disclosing their battery suppliers and offering free safety inspections to EV owners.
Kia has a very different approach to this that doesn’t need multiple gear ratios, and it’s a clever engineering solution that debuted in the firm’s largest electric vehicle, the EV9 SUV.
A day after announcing it would spend billions to build gas-powered trucks at a North American plant once earmarked for electric vehicles, Ford's European division also admitted it would rethink its plans to go all-EV there by the next decade.