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Beyond Polestar 5: building the carbon-neutral car team of 2030 After the Polestar 1 and 2, and the upcoming Polestars 3 through 5, the company has announced a collaboration initiative with partners like SSAB, Hydro, ZF, ZKW, and Autoliv to speed up the development of a climate-neutral car not dependent on planting trees to offset CO2 emissions.

JLR to reimagine vehicle intelligence with Nvidia’s help As part of Jaguar Land Rover’s Reimagine strategy, the partnership is intended to transform the automaker’s modern luxury experience for customers starting in 2025, with software experts from both companies jointly developing AI-powered autonomous driving and connected services built on Nvidia Drive.

U.S. DOE funding boosts Parallel Systems rail AV/EV development The agency selected the company to receive $4.5 million for advanced testing of its autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, which the CEO discussed exclusively with Futurride last month as an alternative to on-road trucking, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and highway congestion.

Mercedes-AMG ups EQE performance With the release of details on the sportier version of the EQE battery-electric “business” sedan, AMG execs say more-exclusive EVs are coming in the not-too-distant future based on an in-house-developed AMG.EA platform.

Mercury Marine concept previews production electric outboard At the 2022 Miami International Boat Show, Mercury revealed its Avator concept that previews electric outboards that start hitting the market later this year to enable more people to go boating where and when they like while also building on the company’s commitment to sustainability.