The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While the impacted automakers include Porsche, Bentley and Audi, we’ve seen plenty of brands being accused of leveraging forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, where the country is said to have forcibly concentrated the Uyghur ethnic minority. General Motors) don’t seem to fall under the same levels of scrutiny. custom laws.

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EV Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Finally, outside the Top 20, one model deserves a special mention, with the rising BYD Han EV (29k units in 2020) ending the year on high note (9.000 units!) so the flagship BYD is looking to become a familiar face in the 2021 table. For 2021, with the e-Tron suffering from internal competition (Audi Q4 e-Tron.),

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EV Sales

JANUARY 20, 2021

One of the most competitive domestic EVs on the market, the flagship BYD is becoming a regular in this Top 5, thanks to competitive pricing, it's the size of a Model S, and yet it costs only $32,800, less than the cheaper Model 3. Just counting these four models together, we get a quarter million units, or 20% of the total EV market.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Fast-forward to 2017. When you look at things like controllers, motors, e-axles, really not too many manufacturers are out there. This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. It’ll charge anything—a bus, a truck, a Porsche, doesn’t matter. Smith Electric didn’t succeed. You must have a lot of scale.

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