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Germany’s auto industry – outrun by Tesla – to axe thousands more jobs

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Back in 2022, the company said it would spend €2 billion in retraining some of its more than 400,000 staff to be better equipped to work in EV parts production. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Last month, Volkswagen said it would cut thousands of jobs in Germany in an effort to slash $11 billion in costs.

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Ford selects Spain for EV production but anticipates substantial job cuts

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Ford also said it would spend $2 billion to convert its Cologne, Germany plant to build EVs as soon as next year. . Ford said that, pending product approval, the Valencia plant could begin producing breakthrough EVs and connected vehicles later in the 2020s. I’d love to hear from you!

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Study: tightening vehicle emissions standards resulted in higher rates of automaker non-compliance; unintended effects of threshold-based regulations

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A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. This phenomenon isn’t limited to the auto industry. Production and Operations Management doi: 10.1111/poms.13419.

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ORNL exclusively licenses plasma processing technology for carbon fiber production to RMX Technologies; 75% less energy, 20% lower cost

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RMX Technologies and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have signed an exclusive licensing agreement for a new technology that significantly reduces the time and energy needed in the production of carbon fiber. Overview of carbon fiber production. We found a way to cut the time by a factor of 2.5 Click to enlarge.

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Another Tesla price cut possible thanks to plummeting lithium prices

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South America, which is by far the most lithium-dense continent on the planet, has seen its lithium extraction capabilities grow, particularly in Chile, where countless new projects are looking to capitalize on the massive amount of surface brine that can easily be converted into solid lithium. But how could this affect Tesla pricing?

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GreenTech Automotive to bring 2,000 JAC BEVs from China for US market

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The braking energy recovery function can convert the kinetic energy produced in braking, acceleration and sliding down slopes to electric energy to increase the distance per charge by 5% to 10%. Compared with the second generation, the third generation integrates the functions of braking energy recovery and remote monitoring, JAC said.

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Highlights from the actual Day by day Pressure podcasts, Might 1-4

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We’re very bullish on the differentiation that we see in both the customer, the product proposition, the value proposition between those two. Listed here are highlights from the actual episodes of ‘Day by day Pressure’, Car Information ‘ weekday podcast, Might 1-4, hosted through Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.