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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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at this point, the company has been beginning to deliver its EVs in several markets throughout Europe and Asia. However Tesla and other automakers have generally been considered to be targeting a $25,000 price tag, and while affordable, it’s still far greater than $10,000. While BYD isn’t planning to enter the U.S.

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Shell Recharge massively expands with Volta acquisition

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The company is also one of many that have attempted to make charging as cheap as possible by selling “billboard space” on each of its chargers. This has most recently included Mercedes, who promised to bring 10,000 locations to North America , Europe, and Asia in the coming years.

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ADB draft report says 3B Asians could become affluent by 2050; significant challenges

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An additional 3 billion Asians could enjoy higher living standards by 2050, but only if Asia sustains its present growth momentum and addresses significant multigenerational challenges and risks, according to a new report commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Yet the OECD projects that forest areas will decline globally by 13% from 2005 to 2030, mostly in South Asia and Africa.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. In non-OECD Asia, some 80% of oil consumed comes from imports in 2035, compared with just over half in 2010. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion, around 20% of the world’s population. Click to enlarge.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. They are the top of the top,” Mr. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year.

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

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At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state. Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not.

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