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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Cars are changing quickly, as is car manufacturing. Why did this happen?

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Tesla is redefining the “Made in China” moniker with Giga Shanghai: report

Teslarati

.” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. Outlook Weekly, sub of China’s major news media Xinhua News, published an article entitled “What Exactly Does Tesla Bring”.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

I’m estimating 28,000 as an executive with a leading auto analyst firm confirmed to me privately that their registration estimates for 2021 put the RAV4 Prime and Wrangler 4xe as a toss up. Auto Industry Analyst. credit off the the cap cost makes it a real cheap lease on 53k Jeep. Flip a coin. Leased mine.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs.

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Wildcat ramps up its focus on EV Supercell breakthroughs

Charged EVs

Mark Gresser: Supercell is our internal name for a battery that the EV industry would love. Mark Gresser: We feel that the industry has stopped or largely ignored the continued push for a better cathode, and while we and many others are working on NMC cathodes for the EV market, there seems to be a gap beyond that.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. If Norway also had an auto or EV-battery industry, no country could catch it in the charts. Claim to fame: Peugeot-Citroen jumps into the fray — but Zoe takes the cake. Yup, yup, yup.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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