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This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love

Electrek

A big part of the fun of finding vehicles for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column comes from all of the interesting fascia designs. These uniquely Chinese vehicles often have interesting faces , giving each vehicle a unique personality.

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Volvo EX90 Excellence is an all-electric limo, for China first

Green Car Reports

Volvo unveiled a more plush version of the 2024 EX90 electric SUV at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show. Sporting two-tone paint and 22-inch wheels, the EX90 Excellence is aimed at wealthy Chinese buyers with personal chauffeurs.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

Baua Electric

Possible “remedies” on the table include retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs. Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

Teslarati

Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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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. But wait, maybe it’s not a compulsion against all regulation. Chinese EVs will grow, whether you like it or not China is actually a little late to the EV party. The compulsion against regulation is pathological.

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Elon Musk as soon as laughed at this Chinese language carmaker. He isn’t giggling now

Baua Electric

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been vocal about his awe for the Chinese language electrical car producers. On the other hand, in relation to the competitiveness of the Chinese language EV makers towards his personal corporate Tesla, Musk remained snobbish. “They work the hardest, and they work the smartest.

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Li-ion maker Boston Power secures US$290M from two local Chinese governments for expansion

Green Car Congress

The expansion of these facilities will allow Boston Power to meet the growing demand by leading Chinese automakers in the Yangtze River Delta and throughout the Bohai Gulf in Northern China. Boston Power’s products target multiple segments in the electric vehicle industry, all geared towards the growth of green, sustainable cities.

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