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BYD Reveals Pre-sale Prices of European Passenger Car Range

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Chinese EV maker BYD revealed the pre-sale prices of its new European passenger car range. The world’s leading manufacturer of new energy vehicles and power batteries immediately introduces three full-electric passenger vehicles which will be delivered to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.

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Toyota Will Continue Developing GR Sports Cars Under New CEO

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Though it’s long been known for building sensible, reliable cars, Toyota has emerged as an enthusiasts’ ally in recent years. That could continue, as incoming CEO Koji Sato recently said the company’s former CEO and well-known gearhead might have more time to develop fast cars.& & [Image: Toyota] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Tesla slashes prices across Europe on Model Y

Baua Electric

The Model Y was Germany’s top-selling BEV in 2023, with some 45,800 new car registrations. BYD only sold 4,140 cars in Germany in 2023, but is looking for 10% market share after its factory in Hungary starts production in a few years. Belgium and Sweden will also see revised vehicles and lower prices. Get started here.

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China become the sector’s biggest car exporter in Q1 2023, surpassing Japan

Baua Electric

Within the first quarter of this 12 months, China surpassed Japan and Germany to transform the sector’s biggest car exporter for the primary year, exporting a complete of one.069 Japan impaired to be the sector’s eminent car exporter, exporting 1.047 million automobiles within the first quarter of this 12 months.

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Novelis to acquire downstream aluminum producer Aleris for ~$2.6B; meeting automotive demand, expanding into aerospace

Green Car Congress

Aleris has been an important supplier of aluminum to premium car manufacturers in Europe as they have embraced greater aluminum use as a means to lightweight vehicles and meet increasingly stringent fuel-efficiency standards. In 2017, Aleris opened a new state-of-the-art auto body sheet production capacity at its Lewisport, Kentucky facility.

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China exported greater than 2 million automobiles in first part of 2023, BYD and Chery grew quickest

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million automobiles, a year-on-year building up of 75.7%, in keeping with the China Affiliation of Car Producers (CAAM). Nearest in 2022, the export quantity exceeded 3 million gadgets, making China the second one greatest car exporter next Japan. Within the first part of this 12 months, China exported 2.14 Extra particularly, 1.78

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Audi to begin production of e-tron Sportback in 2019; second new electric model for Brussels

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Audi will begin production of the Audi e-tron Sportback—Audi’s second production electric car—at Audi Brussels (Belgium) in 2019. The basis for the new e-automobile is the Audi e-tron Sportback concept design study, which the company unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2017. The concept car is a four-door gran turismo.

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