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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

The Truth About Cars

Lower overhead in terms of production costs are supposed to help them endure the onslaught of cheaper Chinese EVs that are assumed to flood the market as European governments effectively mandate electric vehicles. In the U.S.,

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

Cars That Think

For example, the Chinese Navy has invested in a fishlike. submarines; those around the islands of Hainan and Taiwan, for Chinese submarines; in the Barents or Kuril Island chain, for Russian submarines; and the Straits of Juan de Fuca, for U.S. destroying them , which is why several militaries are investing heavily in them.

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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 Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. It’ll be on sale in 2025, possibly as the A9 e-Tron.

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2024 Polestar 2 Dual Motor Review - Not A Smart Time To Be Sexy Anyway

The Truth About Cars

Yes, the Polestar 2 is a Chinese-manufactured vehicle. I know that there are a great many readers who will never consider this or any Chinese-built car for those reasons. The Performance Plus package fitted here even makes this a sports sedan, or even a hot hatch. Does this get a charge out of you?

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

“That said, with increased adoption of batteries, alongside improvements in technologies, the [long-term] trend is likely to still be towards lower battery costs and increased affordability, as economies of scale take hold.”. We’ve seen Chinese automakers be really ahead of the pack here, along with Tesla.

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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?

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Why Did Trump Propose a 100-Percent Tariff on Mexican Auto Imports?

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Having done some digging into the matter, Trump only appears to be targeting Chinese vehicles being manufactured south of the border. The statement was made during the “Buckeye Values PAC” rally in Dayton, Ohio , and comes after Chinese automaker BYD announced plans to build a production facility in Mexico.

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