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BYD launches $233K Yangwang U9 electric supercar that will smoke a Ferrari and can dance

Baua Electric

The world’s leading EV maker, BYD , is taking aim at exotic car manufacturers like Ferrari and Lamborghini with the new Yangwang U9. The luxury SUV has generated hype as a Mercedes G-Class and Land Rover Defender rival with 1,200 hp and premium features like tank turns and tire blowout stabilization.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

From the outside, this Land Rover Defender looks like any other example of the postwar British classic that conquered the African outback—and the automotive world’s heart. Rover estimates that 70 percent of these hardy survivors—beginning with the Land Rover “Series” models, with the “Defender” name added in 1990— remain on the road.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. Chevrolet Equinox – affordable mid-sized SUV set to go EV in 2023.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

Cars That Think

Welcome to the planet's grandest high-stakes poker game, one where the players at the table are auto manufacturers frantically raising the ante in their financial commitments, betting tens of billions and their very survival on their electric vehicle development decisions.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. Lotus Engineering, which has over twenty years of experience in Active Noise Control technologies will assist manufacturers with system performance optimisation. "We

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From Maruti Suzuki WagonR to Kia E9: Top EVs To Hit the Indian Roads In 2024

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BYD Seal A few months back, the Chinese EV giant BYD introduced the Seal EV India. Hyundai Creta EV One of the first automakers to introduce EVs to India was Hyundai, yet the Korean manufacturer has only offered its Kona and Ioniq 5 EVs in luxury sectors thus far. With an 82.5 With a 0-100 kmph acceleration time of about 3.8

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The redesigned federal EV tax credit and other EV-related measures

Charged EVs

Some fear that the new rules will penalize startups such as Lucid and Rivian, which are selling pricey luxury vehicles, presumably as the first phase of an iterative strategy to work their way to more affordable EVs (as Tesla originally planned to do). For example, would batteries produced in the US by a Chinese company fall foul of the law?