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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

Setec Powerr

Europe, the birthplace of the automobile industry, to North America across the Pacific Ocean, has always been the top stage that Chinese car companies hope to step on. In addition, the tax rate for pure electric vehicles in Thailand was reduced from 8% to 2% in June this year. What is the mystery behind it?.

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

Green Car Congress

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). —2012 Sustainability Report. MWh/vehicle.

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Cabinet greenlights Tata’s INR 91,000-crore chip foundry proposal – ET Auto

Baua Electric

India has been making serious efforts for the last few years to localise chip assembly and production to safeguard its commercial as well as strategic interests in line with other major economies of the world. The unit is expected to have a capacity of 15 million chips per day and need an investment of INR 7,600 crores.

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Report: Mitsubishi Planning Dealer Expansion, More Models for U.S.

The Truth About Cars

With new vehicle prices having surpassed parody, any automaker building affordable vehicles may soon find themselves getting a lot of attention from customers who just want something that will work for under $40,000 and that’s basically all Mitsubishi sells. However, this also nuked the brand's identity and U.S.

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India to be on high-stake global stage of chip makers in 5 years: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Semiconductors are an essential component of electronic devices, and are used in automobiles to computers, mobile phones and even washing machines. “…it is very important for any developing country, an economy of our size, to have a semiconductor supply chain within the country.

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