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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. Chery Omoda 5 – Aussie return of Chinese Chery brand kicks off with the Omoda 5, which gets a PHEV drivetrain.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor.

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