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This Chinese electric car is almost entirely windows

Baua Electric

One of my favorite parts of perusing Alibaba for fun and outlandish electric vehicles is seeing just how creative the designers can become. These articles are a tongue-in-cheek exercise in window shopping. This is far from street-legal and also likely costs at least twice as much just in taxes, customs, and freight fees.

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Baidu, Tesla said to have agreed on mapping deal for FSD in China – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As part of the deal, Baidu would also provide its lane-level navigation system to Tesla, they said. Musk is seeking approvals for the FSD software rollout in China and the permissions to transfer data overseas during his meetings with Chinese officials. Baidu is among a dozen companies that have secured one.

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Tesla ‘Giga India’ potential reignited with reports of planned visit

Teslarati

However, despite this market opportunity, incredibly high taxation and a complex legal structure have kept many automakers, in particular, outside of the South Asian market. Still, with rising political pressures to leave China, many businesses, including Tesla, may be pushed into the arms of the Southern Chinese neighbor.

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Media outlet apologizes to Tesla for “brake failure” reports with zero evidence

Teslarati

Interestingly enough, the outlet that admitted to making up the incidents about Tesla’s “brake failures” also urged other media outlets to delete their false articles. Looks like Tesla’s legal team is going after FUDsters. It also pledged to stop spreading unfounded rumors in the future. .

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times. In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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A closer look at minimizing AC charging losses: From the breaker to EV (Part 1)

Charged EVs

In the quest to improve efficiency even more, the focus tends to be on the flashier parts of the drivetrain, like the motor (which certainly deserves it) and inverter (which arguably doesn’t, since efficiency is typically already ~99 %), while scant attention is paid to relatively unsexy things like charging cables and auxiliary/parasitic loads.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Whether or not Chinese OEMs employ unionized factory workers (none of the existing foreign automakers with US factories employ union workers today), to reduce or eliminate trade tariffs, political issues, and the loss of tax credits — these automakers may almost be forced to build their vehicles in US factories.