Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. In 2020, Japan and Korea rank number two and three respectively. The US is in sixth place in 2020.

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Li-ion Supplies Europe China 459

Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

By comparison, Japan tops the list with 284 ships, followed by Norway, which has 102. China has already overtaken Japan as the world’s largest auto exporter, with BYD alone exporting more than 240,000 vehicles last year, making up about 80% of its global sales. That’s more than seven times higher than the price in 2019.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment.

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Engine San Francisco Iceland Wind 127

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

treaty named for a city in Japan whose residents suffered from mercury poisoning from a nearby chemical factory for decades. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N.

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Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 101

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. Geo renamed the Nova as the Geo Prizm and added other models jointly produced with Isuzu and Suzuki in North America and Japan, but separated them from its “American” cars. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. Create a New EV Company.

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 69

EV Central

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Now that it’s here in the country the tiny eK X will be used both in customer clinics and dealers that will feedback their impressions of the prospect of a cheap EV that will be priced from around $30,000. Powered by a small 20kWh battery in Japan the eK X is claimed to have a range of around 180km on the WLTP test cycle.

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Mitsubishi Electric Cars Australia Cars 52

EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Link to the 2019 list (from there you can get to older ones). Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! in 2019 to 4% in 2020. Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! It *is* literal madness to keep doing it.

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