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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., The battery-powered cars that Chinese companies are showing are intended to be much less expensive than those planned by big foreign companies. Gasgoo.com | ?? | Great Wall Motor Co.,

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J.,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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Republicans introduce bill that would hand US EV lead to China

Baua Electric

These credits were an extension and expansion of the $7,500 EV tax credit first introduced in 2008. But Chinese EV production and demand are rising rapidly and automakers are waffling in the face of it – so government must be clear that we are committed to building this industry long-term.

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