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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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Former General Motors (GM) executive Terry Woychowski, who is now President of engineering consultancy Caresoft Global, called the arrival of the Seagull a “clarion call for the rest of the auto industry,” adding that it’s a “significant event” (via CNBC ). auto sector,” the organization writes. BYD last year sold 1.57

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OneD, Koch Modular partner to scale up silicon-graphite EV anode materials – ET Auto

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General Motors is a OneD investor and customer. Over the last decade, Chinese suppliers have flooded the market for polysilicon – high-purity silicon – market with cheap supplies, making new U.S. production uneconomical, Koch Modular president George Schlowsky told Reuters. Nanowires are ultra-thin wires.

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Stuff We Use: External Speakers

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On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have deployed in our travels. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

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GM unveils the Chevrolet Equinox EV, its budget SUV offering

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General Motors has announced their all-new Chevy Equinox EV, their affordable EV SUV offering. Chevrolet has long been the budget offering of GM products; their vehicles are made for everyone, so what if the interior is comparable to a school lunch tray, it’s cheap and (hopefully) reliable transportation.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. An instant success, EDS became a very valuable company. billion ($7.4B

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China’s EV market hits its stride with 1-in-3 sales being electrified

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Tesla China roars back with 212% month-over-month production increase in May. With these sales numbers, pure EVs now account for 20 percent of new car sales in China in 2022, and electrified vehicles overall account for 25 percent. The report points out that this could mean that the majority of Chinese vehicle sales could be electric by 2025.

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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

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After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. The company is expected to decide sometime this year, with production beginning in 2028. Thomas, Ontario, with production starting in 2027.

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