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

Baua Electric

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Electric vehicles trends in India

Electric Vehicles India

It was the seventh-largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in 2019.The billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $802.81 Many state governments have already started procuring electric buses from Chinese and local electric bus manufacturers. million (INR 200 crore) for its second manufacturing plant in May 2019.

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. The climate clock is ticking and we have to start hitting polluters where it counts–in the money. In October 2019, they announced the eTNGA platform for battery electric cars. And I have a feeling that a large Chinese car company will acquire them.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Even in the Chinese market where smaller EV sales are booming, profits are not. Currently, EV reliability is nothing to brag about.

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

Baua Electric

Meanwhile many Chinese automakers were pivoting to EVs, and China made no secret about nurturing strong global automakers while building out a supporting clean-energy infrastructure. they can’t send Chinese workers over here.” First, let’s take a look at how Trump policy affected the auto industry in the previous term.