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Oil companies “break the circle”! Total Energy to build tens of thousands of charging piles in China

Setec Powerr

Among the oil companies breaking through the siege of new energy vehicles, the international giant Total Energy has found a suitable breakthrough: charging piles. In fact, this is not the first time that Total Energy has set foot in the charging pile business in China. Total Energy’s first independent charging station in Wuhan.

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Europe’s biggest EV market is about to hit a perfect storm of problems

Baua Electric

Germany’s VDA, an interest group for the country’s automobile industry, says that battery-powered vehicles are likely to see a decline from 524,000 units last year – more than any other European market – to 451,000 units this year. It forecasts the global market to grow by 2% to 77.4 million cars, compared to the 78.8

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

Green Car Congress

The world is too uncertain and too complex to rely on linear forecasts; therefore, business leaders and policy makers should prepare for the unexpected. The winners could be automotive companies, but they just as well could be utilities capable of offering cost effective charging services.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

Get Electric Vehicle

One among them is the long charging time. Fuel cells, like stem cells in medical science, are a new technology in the automobile industry. Furthermore, if production prices fall by 50% by 2030, as forecasted by the World Hydrogen Council, we will surely be dealing with one of the future fuels. What exactly is an FCEV?

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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

Green Car Congress

With electromobility, the automobile industry faces a fundamental technological upheaval.Our path leads away from oil, to emission-free mobility, and the electric car plays a key role.CO Experts, consultants and politicians tumble over one another with forecasts. And the auto industry doesn’t hold back on announcements.

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Are Rising EV Inventories Proof Nobody Wants Them?

The Truth About Cars

Despite elevated fuel prices, aggressive marketing, and most companies vowing to transition toward building electrified automobiles exclusively, America has an EV supply of more than 100 days on dealer lots. Rural areas are less interested due to there being lackluster charging infrastructure and lower-income households.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

The Truth About Cars

Back then, it was a coalition of Blue states suing the Trump administration when California led the charge.& Assertions have been made that the executive branch has leveraged the Clean Air Act to illegally encourage regulators to “restructure the automobile industry” from top to bottom.

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