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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

Green Car Congress

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. Industrial partners. Private sector. Pure electric passenger car. Funding leverage.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k The 2008 $7.5k Domestic market not shabby either. E-buses were deployed.

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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. For reference, the fully loaded PRT is approximately 80% the weight of 2009 VW Rabbit. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

You can search for auto parts by OEM Number or reference number , and get result in both Product and Catalog list. Gasgoo.com | ?? | All rights reserved.

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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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