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Confirmed! China’s Leapmotor to go on-sale in Australia in 2024 with C10 SUV

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Tipped to price at or under stellar local Chinese success story BYD, Leapmotor is expected to launch here with the medium-sized C10 SUV, which will be a rival for the Tesla Model Y on size but not dollars. READ MORE: Beijing show: Aussie-bound Leapmotor shows off C16 three-row electric family SUV READ MORE: Here comes another one!

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SUV sales surge in India’s preowned car market – ET Auto

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The rise in SUV sales highlights the evolving trend in India’s car market, with consumers increasingly gravitating towards vehicles that offer both comfort and style, along with higher ground clearance and heavy vehicle build.

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Kia targeting annual sales of 1.2M BEVs by 2030; 14 BEV models by 2027 including two electric pickup trucks

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The roadmap builds on Kia’s successful Plan S strategy first announced in 2020. These core business aims include: Accelerating electrification and achieving annual sales of 1.2 Starting with an annual global sales goal of 3.15 The company will make the sales of these vehicles the focus of future business growth.

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Alfa Romeo plans to build an EV SUV to rival BMW iX, Mercedes EQS

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Alfa Romeo is planning to build out a lineup of electric vehicles in 2027, which will follow the 1,000-horsepower Giulia EV that it will release in 2025. Maximum range can be achieved in smaller vehicles and not necessarily in SUVs. But the SUV is set to utilize the same configurations as the initial saloon vehicle.

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Advantage China: BYD becomes first car-maker to build six million plug-in vehicles and is set to overtake Tesla for EV sales

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BYD has announced that it has become the first car-maker to build more than six-million New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) beating US car-maker Tesla who isn’t set to hit the production milestone until early 2024. The six-millionth BYD car was the new Fang Cheng Bao Leopard 5 plug-in hybrid SUV that rivals the Toyota Prado in China.

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Volkswagen’s $40k Scout SUV mule debut slated for Q3 2024

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Scout CEO Scott Keogh recently shared that the first all-electric Scout SUV mules are expected to debut by the third quarter of 2024. Volkswagen plans for Scout to release an SUV and a pickup truck in the United States to penetrate the market. Scout’s $40,000 SUV will be built in a new factory in South Carolina.

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One Creta sold every five minutes: Hyundai claims SUV is value proposition

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lakh units of Creta SUV in the past eight years which roughly translates to one Creta sold every five minutes. And now, Hyundai is looking to build on these numbers through the 2024 Creta model. Hyundai debuted an all-new Creta in 2020, which became the most successful iteration of the mid-size SUV to date.

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