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Continental in strategic agreements with NIO on EVs, Baidu on autonomous driving

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Continental also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Baidu, one of the biggest Internet companies in China, with the goal of establishing a comprehensive strategic cooperation in the areas of automated driving, connected vehicles and intelligent mobility services. Both agreements were signed on Wednesday in Berlin.

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Exploring the adoption of EVs in the US, Europe and China; charging scenarios and infrastructure

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Spain has set a goal of 250,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2014. Between 2009 and 2011, Chinese buyers purchased 13,000 EVs and PHEVs—more than U.S. The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Expects production around 2014. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. Raising money to bring a PHEV to market.

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