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VW joins China auto price war, offers up to $5,820 discount on ID. series EVs

CN EV Post

The price war in China's auto industry continues, with Volkswagen becoming the latest to join in. In addition to the discount, FAW-Volkswagen is offering consumers a free camping kit worth RMB 4,900. FAW-Volkswagen's retail sales of NEVs in January-February were 9,572 units, down 8.3 family of models, according to the poster.

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CEO’s Take on 2024: Cost efficiency and tech skills make India a global force in auto parts sector, says Nirmal K. Minda, CMD, Uno Minda – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Minda, CMD, Uno Minda Edited excerpts: Q: After two consecutive years of swift growth in the auto component industry ‘s performance, what is your outlook for 2024? The past two years have seen a remarkable transformation in the Indian auto and auto component industry.

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Big DEED turnout in Dayton 

Electric Auto Association

Interest In EVs accelerates in Ohio BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Finally, a local manufacturer brought electric kit vehicles that were driven around the garage to the delight of the attendees.

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Electric Car Watch #12: The sad state of Electric Car conversions in India

Plug In India

By Abhishek & Kamlesh ​ In this episode of Electric Car Watch, we will talk about the challenges facing electric car conversions and what the industry and agencies can do better to make it easier. One was the conversion kit by Hyderabad based e-Trio, and the other was Pune based Northway Motorsports. They will chase you away.

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Power Global launches eZee swappable battery EVs in India 

Electric Vehicles India

The company was Romeo Power’s co-founder and former SpaceX Porter Harris and international auto industry veteran Pankaj Dubey which aims to provide electric vehicle and clean energy products to global markets. The swappable battery is designed for light vehicles including two and three-wheeler vehicles.

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Freescale introduces new family of image cognition processors for automotive camera applications

Green Car Congress

The family, along with the accompanying libraries, hardware and software development kits, gives automakers a set of tools to design smart camera applications. With regulators predicting vehicle cameras and viewing screens will cost the auto industry as much as $2.7 SCP2200 family block diagram. Click to enlarge.

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

Green Car Congress

Prior to Tesla, Thomas was Director of Special Projects at Magna Steyr, VP and Division General Manager at auto supplier Collins & Aikman, and a powertrain component design engineer and powertrain system project and project engineer for 10 years. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established.