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The US and EU take different approaches to the threat of Chinese EV imports – Charged EVs

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Chinese automaker BYD recently surpassed Tesla as the world’s leading seller of EVs, and it’s only one of several Chinese-owned brands that are already selling cars in the US and the EU. Some fear that Chinese firms could do an end run around such barriers by producing EVs in places like Mexico and Brazil.)

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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise

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Chinese manufacturers, like CATL, have come from nothing to being world-leading in less than 10 years. The work ranks countries across five key themes related to the supply chain: raw materials, cell & component manufacturing, environment, RII and end demand (across electric vehicles and stationary storage).

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Ansys releases pre-lockdown global survey on vehicle electrification

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Global findings reveal more optimism for EVs—just 6% of Chinese respondents and 4% of Indian respondents will wait to buy an EV until gas-powered vehicles cease production. The sample included 16,037 adults 18-and-over, from the UK, US, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), France, Sweden, Japan, China and India.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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We have to remember that the industry was already operating in a challenging environment, especially towards the end of last year. Markets were significantly hit in Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Greece and Portugal, where the combined volume fell from 634,600 units in March 2019 to 161,800 units last month.

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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The aim of the project, funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU), is to optimize the charging strategy to the use of wind energy for the MINI E to achieve the best possible. Also, the final reports of the consortium partners of the firs MINI E Berlin project were presented to the Federal Environment Ministry official.

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Skeleton Technologies joins Flying Whales program to develop next generation of heavy-lift, large-capacity airships

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MW with the company’s graphene-based ultracapacitors assisting to cover the additional 2 MW peaks for hovering, lifting and stabilisation in reasonable and turbulent environments. Average operational power is expected to be approximately 1.5 Flying Whales CEO Sébastien Bougon.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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The other institutions involved were the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany; the Universities of Colorado, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Maryland as well as A.S.L.

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