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Honda breaks ground on its $4.4 billion Gigafactory in the US

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Honda and its partner LG Energy Solutions have broken ground on their first joint venture battery production location in the United States. Honda is far from a leader in the electric vehicles market, but with a series of investments , they hope to change that over the next decade. Lee, CEO of the Honda/LG joint venture.

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BYD offers discounts for Song and Seal as China's auto price war intensifies

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Image from BYD's Weibo) As the price war intensifies in China's auto industry, BYD has also started offering discounts for its two models, even though the official prices remain unchanged. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Full CPCA rankings: Top-selling models and automakers in China in Feb

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This article contains 20 tables compiled by CnEVPost based on data from the CPCA, showing which models and car companies sold the most in China in February. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced on March 9 the top selling models and car companies in China in February, presenting a panoramic view of the Chinese auto industry.

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Full CPCA rankings: Top-selling models and automakers in China in Mar

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This article shares the CPCA's rankings of the best-selling models and car companies in China for March. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced on April 11 the top selling models and car companies in China in March, presenting a panoramic view of the Chinese auto industry. 7 Li Auto 20,823 11,034 88.7%

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At CES, legacy automakers scramble to keep up in AI arms race – ET Auto

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Not so long ago, automakers boasted about horsepower and towing capabilities in their cars and pickups, but in the fast-changing world of technology that now dominates the auto industry, software-driven enhancements are prominent in consumers’ minds. “We don’t have any know-how, even in Honda.”

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ACMA awards 59 companies for excellence in production, innovation, localisation, exports – ET Auto

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The jury panel for the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards, besides Vinod Aggarwal, included, Sunil Kakkar, SIAM Aatmnirbhar Bharat Sourcing Group; and Senior Executive Officer – Supply Chain & Enterprise Strategy at Maruti Suzuki India, Sanjeev Jain, Director Purchase at Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India; Ganesh Mani S.,

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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