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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Each reaches basically the same conclusion: the global non-Chinese automakers will never be able to catch up unless they radically change their corporate mindsets. Ford has exported more than 100,000 trucks and SUVs from China to Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and exports the Lincoln Nautilus to the US.

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XPeng earnings preview: Q4 to be soft with promotions hitting margins

CN EV Post

Demand for the company's flagship SUV, the G9, has clearly been disappointing, despite mostly positive reviews, the team said, adding that they expect XPeng to potentially make pricing or SKU adjustments to the SUV in the coming months.

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The Kiwi business journey to Carbon Zero

Drive Electric

If your staff are using taxis, Ubers and subsidised public transport to get around and what impact that has on cost and emissions. A FleetPartners customer had a company car policy of large 6 cylinder utes and SUVs for their rural and commercial teams. Exercise your corporate responsibility. Business example.

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Too little, too late? Why the Toyota HiLux EV concept only shows how far the brand is behind Tesla and BYD

EV Central

Locally, Toyota has yet to even put a BEV on-sale and, of course, it makes a fortune out of CO2 and particulate-emitting diesel SUVs and utes. However, there is life in the project with further testing about to kick off in Thailand where a fleet of HiLux EVs are being pressed into service as share taxis.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Lately, it sells 3 top rate EVs – 001 taking pictures brake, 009 MPV (minivan), and the original member of Zeekr’s population – the compact SUV Zeekr X. The corporate delivered its 100,000th automobile on April nineteenth, and as of June, their cumulative deliveries in China reached 120,581 EVs, in keeping with CarNewsChina knowledge.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

If there are no regulations, it will be business as usual and MNC after MNC will enter the Indian market to dump their oil-guzzling SUVs on us. We wrote an article on how why India does not need more pollution SUVs. Many corporates in multiple industries have setup work from home policies. We had lockdowns.

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