Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In October, a startup called Jidu Automotive , backed by Chinese AI giant Baidu and Chinese carmaker Geely , officially released an autonomous electric car, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition. In 2023, the car will go on sale. He added that it “can become the standard for self-driving cars.”

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Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2023

A Chinese battery producer SVOLT has announced a major European expansion to help fuel the EV industry on the continent. Due to its aggressive regulation of ICE vehicles, one of the leading regions for EV adoption is Europe, which currently plans to phase out gas-powered vehicle sales by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2021, the Volkswagen brand delivered more electrified vehicles worldwide than ever before, handing over to customers more than 369,000 electric cars (+73% versus 2020), comprising approximately 106,000 PHEVs (+33%) and 263,000 all-electric vehicles (+97%). if the brand’s global BEV sales in 2021. of total deliveries (2020: 4%).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daimler AG is taking a major step forward in its China strategy with the closing of the company’s 12% investment in long-standing partner BAIC Motor, the passenger car unit of Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC Group), one of the top automotive companies in China. Most recently, the establishment of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co.,

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

It’s taken Huawei just four years to become a force in smart car technology , navigating the devastation of trade sanctions on its smartphones business while simultaneously developing a driver assistance system that is the darling of the Beijing auto show. Audi said it does not comment on suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The new app will be based on “Tuban Xiong”, an app which has already been successfully introduced to the Chinese market by Mercedes-Benz in 2018 and offers several functions especially aiming at increasing travel safety such as: Location Sharing, Trip Sharing, SOS-Call, Geo-Fencing, Bodyguard Service, Fake Call etc.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe It was a huge year for profits at Chinese auto behemoth BYD. Adding up sales for all so-called new energy vehicles, including battery-only vehicles and hybrids, BYD sold 3 million vehicles in 2023. Tallying up its year-end sales, it’s a massive 62% growth from 2022. million vehicles.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, he also stated that if Tesla does cut Giga Shanghai production, it would “NOT” be due to competition from other Chinese EV automakers. Potter theorized that Tesla might cut Giga Shanghai production due to macro headwinds and Giga Berlin in Germany. Tesla China quickly denied the rumors.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2022

Chinese automaker and battery supplier BYD is entering the European market—and that could include supplying batteries to Tesla. Earlier this month, Sweden's Hedin Mobility Group announced that it would distribute and sell BYD passenger cars in its home country and Germany.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com It was a very good year in France for electric cars, for all kinds of reasons – among them, new cheaper cars entering the market supported by generous government subsidies. In 2023, 26% of new cars sold in France were battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, a huge 47% jump from 2022.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Following growth in June and July, Audi AG increased its global sales year-on-year in August as well. increase in sales compared with 2016. Cumulative sales since January total around 1,202,400 units—2.6% The A6L, the bestselling Audi in the market, posted substantial growth, with sales up 12.0% to 13,069 cars.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 18, 2021

The German automotive market has opened the flood gates to plugin vehicles, with December setting yet another record month, with a little less than 83,000 units, PEVs scored an amazing 27% share (14% BEV) in December, making Germany the largest PEV market outside China, beating even the USA by a wide margin (394k vs 330k). its sales YoY.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Tesla’s good fortune has proven that buyers are clear to outsiders, although it’s vague whether or not Chinese language manufacturers will be capable of fit the promoting draw of Elon Musk. The quantity is anticipated to just about halve through 2030, as carmakers go increasingly more towards on-line gross sales.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

7 lineup, this time offering an estate car aimed at Europe’s upper mid-sized automotive sector. 7 Tourer electric estate car, or station wagon, for the European market. 4 SUV at its EV plant in Emden, Germany. 7 sedan , or fastback saloon, which is currently sold in the European, North American and Chinese markets.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 30, 2023

million unit sales target BYD is striving to reach, 2.8 The company discontinued production and sales of vehicles powered entirely by internal combustion engines in March 2022. It first announced overseas NEV sales figures in July 2022. If it can achieve its sales target of reaching 2.8 If it can reach 3.6

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

Tesla’s battery supply for its cars made in China is set to expand. billion yuan) in a share sale that will be made available to large investors. billion yuan) in a share sale that will be made available to large investors. Last year, CATL performed a similar stock sale of just $3 billion in a private stock sale.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Volkswagen faces mounting pressure to keep up with Tesla and Chinese automakers in the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and its success in doing so could have major implications. Volkswagen had just around 145,000 sales. Our companies are mainly generating their profits abroad, helping to keep jobs in Germany.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While European automakers have been shifting over to direct sales à la Tesla, China’s BYD, for Build Your Dreams, along with Chinese peers Xpend and Great Wall Motor are looking to dealers to build sales and provide networks to help their brands build solid reputations and trust among Europeans. Last year, the company sold 1.6

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 9, 2021

For the first time in the history of the European automotive market, electric vehicles outsold conventional diesel engine vehicles, according to new data from the European Electric Car Report. Norway plans to completely phase out gas cars at some point in 2022, according to some projections. of the EV market share.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although Germany takes the lead from France in terms of technology for this latest report, China is catching up quickly and ranks second in terms of technology for the first time. Chinese vehicles are improving significantly and becoming safer and more efficient. US ranks fourth with an increase in sales share of more than 2.3

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

A new report claims BYD’s new EV platform will slash costs even further as the automaker kicks off a “liberation battle” against gas-powered cars. It’s gas-powered cars. In other words, legacy automakers that are still selling gas-powered cars. This will make it hard for traditional gas cars to compete.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 9, 2020

Mercedes-Benz and Geely announced on Wednesday that its fully electric city-car brand, Smart, is going Chinese. The companies have secured the regulatory approvals to formally establish Smart as a global joint venture based in Hangzhou Bay, Ningbo, and will have sales organizations in China and Germany.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2024

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to the comparisons being drawn by various media outlets regarding his company and high-powered Chinese rival BYD, which outpaced Musk’s company in terms of production of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023. Tesla’s factory in Germany only produces the Model Y.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2017

CATL is a private Chinese company developing, manufacturing and providing after-sales services of lithium-ion battery solutions for electric vehicles and energy storage markets. Established in 1968, it has produced cars for OEMs including Saab, Opel, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 25, 2024

Tesla was recently overtaken by Chinese automaker BYD as the world’s largest EV builder, but the American company had the world’s best-selling vehicle overall last year. The Model Y was 23 percent cheaper than the average EV cost in America and 18 percent lower than EV costs in Germany. The Toyota RAV4 came in second with 1.07

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The company has cited market forces as the cause, noting that its Zwickau and Dresden plants in Germany would be throttled down for a couple of weeks. According to Reuters , regional demand for both models has declined as Chinese EVs have started to become commonplace in Europe. 3 technically is a Chinese-made EV. Both the ID.3

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

Germany may be facing a shortage of workers, but not all sectors are equally impacted. Emrullah Karaca has made brakes for the past 20 years, but he is now learning to assemble heat pumps instead, as the Continental factory where he works in northern Germany is slated to close.

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EV Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The German PEV passenger car market started the year like it ended the last one, ie, on fire, with doubling sales, to 36,903 registrations, so it seems there's no stopping to the German EV locomotive. This brilliant performance, added to the steep fall of the overall market (-31% YoY), allowed the PEV Share to jump from the 6.6%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2020

This makes the Tiguan the best-selling car in the Volkswagen brand and Group. This versatile vehicle is available for sale in 80% of countries in the world and is the most successful SUV on the market in Europe. In 2008, Volkswagen manufactured more than 150,000 units, making it the most successful SUV in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. All three German Mercedes-Benz car plants—Rastatt, Bremen and Sindelfingen—will now produce EQ-brand EVs. We have laid the foundation for this.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2023

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius has told the German media that the brand has no intention of cutting ties with China, saying such a move would be unwise for the whole of Germany industry.& Like many Western nations, Germany cut ties with Russia when war broke out in Ukraine.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The VinFast VF 8–now on sale in the U.S. It is also currently the best-selling car brand in China. 100 7587 0 7587 0 0 6933 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 6935The company was formed in 2003 and has seen a steady growth since then—selling a variety of different models, including hybrids and all-electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2015

The index, prepared by Roland Berger and fka experts, compares the relative competitive standings of the top seven automotive nations (Germany, France, Italy, the USA, Japan, China and South Korea) in the electromobility segment. Sales of xEVs doubled in China in Q1 2015 from Q1 2014. Overall rankings. Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Volkswagen Brand China and its Chinese joint venture FAW-Volkswagen are scaling up their cooperation in the area of digitalization and connectivity. a joint venture between Volkswagen Group China and FAW-Volkswagen, will be established in the Chinese city of Chengdu. In Chinese, the two characters “Mó S?” Zhì Lián (????).).

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

One day after posting a significant drop in Q1 profits, Volkswagen Group is looking to trim down its administrative staff in Germany to bolster 2024 returns. Deliveries for Q1 were, in fact, up 3% year-over-year, but BEV sales fell. EV sales were only in the green in China (+91% YOY) and stumbled in Europe (-24%) and the US (-16%).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. China now has the world’s eighth-largest shipping fleet with 33 car-carrying ships, according to data from shipping consultants Veson Nautical and reported by Reuters.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPeng on Thursday said its software and artificial intelligence training upgrades will enter a “super fast cycle” from May, and that it hopes use of its platform will expand to other Asian countries and Europe. In February, XPeng said it plans to hire 4,000 people this year and invest 3.5

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