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Ankai Automobile Developing Plug-in Hybrid Bus for US Market

Green Car Congress

Global Atlanta. The state-owned Chinese vehicle maker Ankai Automobile Co. Ankai is China’s third-largest bus company; it has partnered since 1993 with Daimler Buses, producing Setra brand buses under license for the Chinese market. is developing a plug-in hybrid electric bus for the US market.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

Green Car Congress

Combined with a Chinese manufacturing boom, that lowered the overall cost of panels by 40 percent this year, Solyndra was unable to compete. Atlanta: Oct 28, 2011. Resources. [ 1 ] [link] , [link]. [ 2 ] Annual average solar insolation for New Jersey is 4.5 – 5.0 kWh/m 2 /day as compared with Germany which averages 3.0 – 3.5

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Drive Electric Week event organizers reminisce

Plug in America

One of my favorite NDEW stories was from our event, Drive the Future Atlanta, where we had hundreds of diverse, new and used EV drivers and enthusiasts display their vehicles. Happy50Plus was pleasantly surprised that we had close to 200 people turn out for our Chinese language EV event! Shelley Francis, Co-Founder & Director.

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Charmed by a City Off Thailand’s Beaten Path

Baua Electric

Wooden temples from centuries ago and two-story teak mansions from the late 1800s and early 1900s still stand, and alongside the Wang River, the streets in the Kat Kong Ta enclave are like an open-air museum of well-preserved Chinese shophouses and European gingerbread-style buildings.

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Inflation Reduction Act boosts EV investment in the US

Teslarati

Michigan’s EV & Battery Investments Ford has heavily invested in Michigan on a battery plant with Chinese supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL). The Atlanta-based factory is expected to produce Rivian’s R2 next-generation platform. Ford battery plant in Michigan recently restarted construction.

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