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Toyota to launch two new plug-in hybrid models in China; Corolla and Levin

Green Car Congress

In 2005, based on long-term plans to encourage the widespread use of environmentally-friendly vehicles in the country, Toyota selected China as the first location for production of its hybrid flagship, the Prius, outside of Japan. At present, it is available in models sold in Europe and Japan. Click to enlarge.

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

Setec Powerr

In addition to deploying the Chinese market, Total Energy’s charging pile business also involves important cities in many countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Singapore. First, the requirement for global carbon neutrality fundamentally drives the rise of the electrification era.

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Deloitte global survey gauges consumer prospects for EVs in China, Europe and Americas; China leads

Green Car Congress

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global Manufacturing Industry group conducted a global survey to explore consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). Japan has the smallest percentage of consumers in the potential first movers segment with only 4%. gallon US). At 12 RMB a liter ($1.83/liter,

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charging stations business in India.

Electric Vehicles India

As we all can see how Electric vehicles were growing day by day and there is a lot of opportunity in the automobile industry at moment there are fewer charging stations in India but in the future, it will become a game-changer in Indian business in other. Need for charging stations. In India, most EVs are on the CCS protocol.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ).

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

Cars That Think

It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently conceived the technology, and then worked in secret, racing to commercialize the technology, and without even being aware of the other’s efforts. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron.