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Tesla now has over 1,300 Supercharger stations in Chinese mainland

CN EV Post

Tesla built its first Supercharger station in the world in September 2012, and completed its first such facility in the Chinese mainland in 2014. The post Tesla now has over 1,300 Supercharger stations in Chinese mainland appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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QOTD: Do You Actually Care About Chinese Imports?

The Truth About Cars

annually, having Oakville Assembly down means Ford had to come up with something and it elected to pull China out of the bullpen — setting the SUV up to become Ford’s very first Chinese import. Though it’s been taking action that has helped improve Chinese sales figures in recent years — the worst period of the pandemic notwithstanding.

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Chinese EV company Xpeng Motors raises US$400M in Series C; Xiaomi strategic investor

Green Car Congress

In addition to the latest equity raising, Xpeng Motors has also successfully diversified its funding sources by securing several billions of RMB-denominated unsecured credit lines from leading Chinese and international banks including China Merchants Bank, China CITIC Bank and HSBC. Xpeng Motors achieved numerous milestones this year.

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Daimler-BYD DENZA EV tracking for 2014 introduction

Green Car Congress

The joint Chinese brand of Daimler and its partner BYD (Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology, BDNT) is tracking toward the market introduction of the DENZA EV in 2014, as announced earlier. The battery-electric vehicle will see its world premiere in April 2014 at the Auto China trade fair in Beijing.

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

Baua Electric

Chinese EVs will grow, whether you like it or not China is actually a little late to the EV party. Chinese EV sales have started taking off overseas , particularly in Europe. They contend that the Chinese government unfairly subsidizes its auto sector, making prices uncompetitively low. Namely: China.

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Chinese rocket mistaken for a SpaceX upper stage on a collision course with the Moon

Teslarati

After this discovery, Gray dug back into his previous data and came to a new conclusion: The object is the third stage of the Chinese Chang’e 5-T1 mission launched in October 2014 on a Long March 3C rocket. There’s always some separation, but this was suspiciously large.”, explained Gray on his most recent website update.

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Production and sales of plug-ins boomed in China in 2014

Green Car Congress

CAAM also reported that while in 2014, the sales of Chinese brand passenger cars increased by 4.1% Specifically, the sales for Chinese brand cars were down 17.4%, with a decrease of 5.6 In contrast, sales of Chinese brand SUV enjoyed growth both in sales and market share, increasing by 50.4% percentage points.

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