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Toray, LG Chem to establish battery separator film joint venture in Hungary

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Toray Industries and LG Chem have agreed to form a battery separator film joint venture in Hungary. LG Chem will invest US$375 million (around ¥43 billion) in Toray Industries Hungary Kft. LTHS), in which Toray and LG Chem each will hold a 50% interest.

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BYD launches 3 new electric vehicles at the Paris Motor Show

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Notably, BYD owns the vertical supply chain for seamless integration and manufacturing control, including the production of semiconductors. BYD was also the first automotive OEM in the world to announce it would be ceasing production of ICE vehicles this year to focus on BEV and PHEV products.

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UK government launches new clean air strategy; ending sales of conventional diesel and gasoline LDVs by 2040

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The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). From farming to cleaning solvents there are a large range of other day to day practices, processes and products that produce harmful emissions.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

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