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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. Yet, the current state of affairs is rapidly changing, with Chinese companies putting 47 ships on order, which accounts for a quarter of all orders globally.

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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

Green Car Congress

Producers in Canada had conceded defeat by 2008 and the US industry was reduced to just one player that would probably not still be around were it not for punitive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Chinese magnesium. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended.

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The electric year ahead: Every EV coming to Australia in 2023

EV Central

It won’t be cheap, but Audi’s e-Tron GT and its more potent RS e-Tron GT sibling promise big performance. Newcomer Cupra has wasted no time getting its first EV to market, even beating parent company Volkswagen to the punch. Chinese-owned MG has enjoyed early EV success in Australia with the ZS EV. Peugeot e-2008.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year. The deal, which is awaiting final approval from the Chinese government, didnt get much notice at the time. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. Earlier post.)