SF Motors
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There's a new startup aiming to challenge Tesla's dominance in the burgeoning EV market. The company is Seres, formerly known as SF Motors, and it's planning to unveil its first model at next week's Auto Shanghai 2019. Called the SF5, the model is a small SUV boasting as much as 684 horsepower and 767 pound-feet of torque, or enough to rocket it from 0-62 mph in under 3.5 seconds and top out at 155 mph. The SF5 is based on a modular platform in the familiar skateboard design, where a battery is placed flat in the floor and an electric motor or two resides at each axle. Seres' biggest battery...
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SF Motors reveals first EVs to be built at ex-Hummer plantAn electric car startup backed by Chinese commercial vehicles giant Chongqing Sokon as well as Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard has revealed its first two cars. The company is SF Motors, which last June announced it was acquiring AM General’s commercial vehicles plant located in South Bend...
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Plant that once built Hummers will soon build EVs for Chinese-backed startup
In a strange twist of fate, the plant that once built big, gas-hungry Hummers has been bought by a startup looking to build electric cars. On June 22, Chinese-backed electric car startup SF Motors announced plans to acquire AM General’s commercial vehicles plant located in South Bend...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran
