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Audi reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ with Chinese state-owned SAIC Motor to buy EV platform

Electrek

Chinese-state owned SAIC Motor appears to be the current frontrunner as discussions with Audi are reportedly advancing and pertain to the former’s luxury sub-brand IM Motors. more… The post Audi reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ with Chinese state-owned SAIC Motor to buy EV platform appeared first on Electrek.

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Novel Sodium-Ion Battery-Powered EVs To Hit Chinese Streets in January

The Truth About Cars

A Volkswagen-funded Chinese automaker has a new type of battery that offers some benefits over lithium-ion batteries, namely cost and cold weather performance, but it’s unclear if we’ll see them in the United States. JAC Motors has developed a new EV sporting a sodium-ion battery that it says has lower costs and more abundant raw materials.

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Ferrari, with first electric supercar coming in 2025, warns rivals over Chinese EVs

Baua Electric

Although its first fully electric supercar is not due out until next year, Ferrari is warning rivals about incoming Chinese EVs. Ferrari warns rivals with Chinese EVs surging “For me, this is a call to action for Europe,” Benedetto Vigna, Ferrari’s CEO, said in an interview with BloombergTV.

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Chinese NEVS buys leading in-wheel electric motor manufacturer

Green Car Reports

National Electric Vehicles Sweden announced last week that it has bought Protean, a British manufacturer of in-wheel motors for electric cars.

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LME copper prices at 9-year high

Green Car Congress

Total visible copper stocks (LME + COMEX + SHFE + Chinese bonded warehouses) amounted to just 560kt at the end of January, noted critical materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill—only 11kt more than the lowest recent stock level of 549kt in December 2019.

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QOTD: Do You Actually Care About Chinese Imports?

The Truth About Cars

But Ford Motor Co. annually, having Oakville Assembly down means Ford had to come up with something and it elected to pull China out of the bullpen — setting the SUV up to become Ford’s very first Chinese import. Most notably, General Motors has been criticized for importing its Buick Envision crossover from China to the U.S.

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Nikkei analysis finds Tesla relies on China for 40% of battery supply chain

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An analysis by Nikkei in Japan concludes that nearly 40% of the suppliers for materials used in Tesla’s electric vehicle batteries are Chinese companies. Nikkei sent a letter to Tesla asking about its dependence on Chinese suppliers but said that it had received no reply by the publication deadline.

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