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Nissan, Frost & Sullivan study finds 37% of Southeast Asian consumers open to buying EV

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Contrary to common perception, cost was not a deterrent—in fact, customers surveyed were willing to pay more to own an electric vehicle, compared with a comparable conventional car. However, the study showed that lower costs would prompt more people to consider electric cars. Motivating factors for buying an electric vehicle.

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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8 The First Car Vietnamese Car Comes To North America When Vietnam’s largest company, the VinGroup, announced in 2017 they were entering the automobile manufacturing business, it probably didn’t get too much notice. For when not at home, VinFast has developed a Plug & Charge feature.

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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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That year was the height of counterculture in the United States, it witnessed the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ War raged in Vietnam and students across the US overwhelmingly opposed it. It is a day of political action and civic participation.

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BNEF: global investment in energy transition hit $500B in 2020; $139B on EVs and infrastructure

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Clean power generation and electric transport are seeing heavy inflows, but need to see further increases in spending as costs fall. A new, broad measure of “energy transition investment”, compiled by BloombergNEF (BNEF), shows that the world committed a record $501.3 Domestic installation of energy-efficient heat pumps came to $50.8

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