Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. Hodges continued that line of research at UC Berkeley, which he joined in 1970 as a professor of engineering.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

By 2023, the Volkswagen brand will offer 10 models based on the MEB modular electric drive toolkit on the Chinese market. Volkswagen will continue to bring fascinating models onto the market – including cars with high-efficiency combustion engines. family for China. Production of this model is to start at the end of 2020.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The Chinese government plans to have new-energy vehicles account for more than 20% of the country’s annual car sales by 2025—equating to more than seven million vehicles, based on Chinese government forecasts. Last year we made a commitment to electrification in preparation for an era beyond the internal combustion engine.

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APRIL 24, 2016

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. New turbo engine. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinese state media reported that he met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, during which Li told Musk that Tesla’s development in China could be regarded as a successful example of U.S. Tesla reached an accord with Chinese authorities for a plant in Shanghai, its first outside the United States, in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The Volkswagen Group, through its two Chinese joint ventures, will be investing more than €9.8 By 2018, the workforce is to increase from 75,000 to 100,000 people. million to more than 4 million units per year in 2018, with a view to relieving the burden on existing plants in a growing market.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But it may also signal a de-escalation of the pressure Washington has brought to bear on the Chinese company now that Huawei is on its heels. What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications. Meng's arrest on fraud charges was widely seen as part of that campaign.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. So China could start producing weapons-grade plutonium there very soon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering in China have developed new hybrid electrolytes to support high-voltage Li-ion batteries (e.g., ~5 Thirdly, the presence of silane and alumina ceramic filler improves the flame retardant property and prevents internal short circuit, thus enhances battery safety.

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MAY 22, 2016

China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH) has raised $400 million through the first Green Bond sale on the offshore market from a Chinese automobile company to support the design, development and production of range-extended electric vehicles by its UK subsidiary, the LondonTaxi Company (LTC), manufacturer of the iconic London Black Cab.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

Bosch, a leading supplier of technology for diesel engines, recently provided an overview of trends it sees in the diesel engine marketplace globally. Purchasers of SUVs, who represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the auto market, almost always opt for a diesel engine.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

With the opening of a second vehicle production plant in Foshan, a mega plant has been built at the South Chinese location. In Qingdao, too, electrified vehicles will be able to roll off the assembly line alongside cars with combustion engines in future. We continue to expect the car market in China to develop positively.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

This is more than six times higher than in 2018, just 5 years earlier. Electric cars accounted for around 18% of all cars sold in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and only 2% five years earlier, in 2018. Chinese car makers can undercut rivals in Europe because their production costs are heavily subsidised. China exported over 1.2

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

For nearly a century, naval engineers have striven to develop ever-faster, ever-quieter submarines. According to experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., For example, the Chinese Navy has invested in a fishlike. IEEE Spectrum. two methods offer. particular promise. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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JULY 20, 2023

Certainly one of our readers despatched me an e-mail asking how it’s imaginable that some 2-year-old Chinese language firms have already got 3 unutilized EVs at the street (Zeekr) or {that a} unutilized maker can create 7 unutilized fashions and seven facelifts in 5 years (Nio). million vehicles by way of 2025, and many others.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Continental and Chinese automotive supplier and battery manufacturer CITC (Sichuan Chengfei Integration Technology Co., The planned location of the company’s headquarters is Changzhou, near Shanghai, with operations expected to begin mid-2018. CITC allows us access to the extremely significant Chinese market.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Nidec’s fully integrated automotive traction motor system E-Axle (announced in April 2018). Among all the products in the market, companies’ attention and Nidec’s particular focus are on the traction motor, one of the most important components to replace the existing internal-combustion engine. billion to US$9.3

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

All vehicles are equipped with level 4 self-driving technology, as defined by the SAE international standards, and 5G network technology. NEXO features world-class system efficiency of 60%, durability equivalent to internal combustion engine-driven vehicles and a load space of 839 liters. Utilizing the 5G network of KT Corp.,

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APRIL 19, 2017

GKN forecasts that its Chinese joint venture—Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS)—will produce more than 1 million eDrive units per year by 2025. GKN also announced that China will become a global production hub for GKN’s electrified drivelines in 2018, when production of its latest eDrive technologies commences at SDS.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The 2018 edition of BP’s Energy Outlook considers the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition. Global coal consumption flatlines and it seems increasingly likely that Chinese coal consumption has plateaued.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Around 40% of Chinese and 37% of Brazilian manufacturers and suppliers are investing the largest proportion of their powertrain resources in ICE optimization, according to the survey. In terms of allocating R&D expenditures, the single biggest response around the world (from 42% of respondents) was for the traditional combustion engine.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Founded in 2016 and going public on NASDAQ in 2018, NIU Technologies is a Chinese smart electric scooter manufacturer and current industry leader. The YQi will feature a 150cc liquid-cooled gas engine as well as a 2400W mid-mounted electric motor. It will start at €3,990. It retains the same 70 km range as its predecessor.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In 2021, China controlled the global lithium-ion manufacturing industry as around 79% of the lithium-ion batteries that were sold on the international market that year were made in China. Some Chinese battery manufacturers include CATL, BYD, CALB, Guoxuan, and Sunwoda. Now let us look into another important factor aiding EV adoption.

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MAY 19, 2021

Interviews earlier this year with Program Chief Engineer Jesse Ortega and Vehicle Chief Engineer Jeremy Short revealed more of the story behind the Bolt EUV that we’ll start to see on US roads later this summer. GM’s BEV2 platform and powertrain engineering are headquartered in its technical center in Warren, Michigan.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2018, Facebook and Google placed bets on broadening the transmission band of optical fibers by adding signals at a hundred new wavelengths to squeeze 24 terabits through a single fiber. network because of security concerns arising from its Chinese connections. Although the cable was soon laid, the U.S. petabits) per second.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

Bloomberg confirms that The adoption curve followed by South Korea starting in 2021 ends up looking a lot like the one taken by China in 2018, which is similar to Norway after its first 5% quarter in 2013. Equivalent internal combustion engine performance ranges from 500 to 1,000 kilometers. #4. Global Powers Favour BEVs.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Electric Vehicles for Deliveries and Shared Mobility Logistic companies, delivery companies, Food-delivery startups and shared mobility players have drawn out plans to phase out using Internal Combustion Engine vehicles and switch to electric. Evoke motorcycles is a Chinese OEM who has setup factories and operations in India.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2021

consumer market fed China’s export engine, itself outfitted with U.S. B-2 Stealth Bomber dropped bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, killing three people. The Chinese and the Americans see this much the same way,” says Work, calling it a hot competition. “If The Chinese have kept pace. Already, China is.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s the first of GM’s brands to dispense with internal combustion engines. From 2018 through 2021, the disparity between sales in the world’s two largest auto markets grew. In 2018, Cadillac sold 228,000 vehicles in China against 155,000 in the US. That year, it sold 173,000 vehicles in China, versus 156,000 in the US.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Traction batteries and motors in electric vehicles (EVs) are very different than the powertrain components of the internal-combustion engine vehicles they replace. The Chinese electric car market was, up until 2018, predominantly using LFP cathodes. Another significant trend is the phase-out of LFP cathodes.

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MARCH 22, 2021

For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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