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Here comes another one! China’s Leapmotor plans Aussie attack with BYD-busting prices

EV Central

Target BYD! The success of the BYD EV brand has acted as a spur for the Stellantis-Leapmotor joint-venture – dubbed Leapmotor International – to eye Australia high on its priority list. The ambition – apparently – is to price lower than equivalent BYD models and sell in higher numbers.

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4 more cities sign Global Clean Bus Declaration raising total to >40K ultra-low emission buses by 2020; London to trial BYD electric double-decker

Green Car Congress

The Global Clean Bus Declaration , developed by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson in partnership with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group , launched in Buenos Aires in March 2015 with 20 original signatories. Earlier post.) The capital has also pioneered new technologies such as hydrogen and electric buses.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

roads by 2015? The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Plug-in hybrids differ from hybrids on the road today in that they can go longer distances on battery power and can be recharged via electrical outlets. Five million. Two million. One million.

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London adding 51 more all-electric buses to operating fleet

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electric or hydrogen), and all 3,000 double deck buses are hybrid. The new buses will join two existing electric buses, manufactured by Chinese company BYD, on the Go Ahead-operated commuter routes in central London. This includes 800 New Routemaster buses, which are one of the cleanest double deck buses of their type.

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