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Study shows 99% of used lead-based vehicle batteries in the EU are collected and recycled

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Although the report shows that 99% of used automotive lead batteries available for collection are recycled it highlights that the remaining 1% represents the statistical error of the approach and/or movement of stored batteries and batteries with longer lifetimes than estimated in this study rather than any batteries being landfilled or incinerated.

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Tesla Overtakes BMW In 2021 US Luxury Car Sales

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But, according to Automotive News, Tesla may overtake BMW as America’s best-selling luxury automobile brand, as the company does not distinguish domestic and worldwide sales. This is based on statistics from new automobile registrations in the United States, which are a few weeks behind sales.

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China realizes charging piles, complete vehicles and accessories to go overseas

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Judging from the customs data for the first eight months of this year, the contribution rate of my country’s new energy vehicle exports to the growth of automobile exports reached 26.7%, becoming a new bright spot in the foreign trade of the automobile industry. Cross-border e-commerce shines in the European market.

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New Audi A8 debuting Level 3 autonomous AI traffic jam pilot; parking and remote garage pilots; zFAS controller

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It integrates high-performance chips—the Tegra K1 from NVIDIA, the Aurix from Infineon, and the Cyclon V from Altera—which are supplemented by the EyeQ3 processor from Mobileye, the world leader in image processing algorithms for the automobile industry. The basis for this comes from mathematics and statistics.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. This is not to say there is not going to be intense personal and economic pain faced by tens of thousands of workers across multiple industries during the transition to EVs at scale. Better statistics are needed.

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