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China to Encourage Consolidation in Auto Industry; Push to Increase Market Share of Domestic Automakers

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China’s central government plans to implement a new policy in the first half of this year to encourage auto industry consolidation and further the development of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a recent news conference. of the total.

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Auto Industry Backs Additional Funding for Research into Impacts of Mid-Level Ethanol Blends

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The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) sent a letter to US House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriators in support of additional funding to complete research into the impacts of mid-level blends of ethanol. Source: Joint IEPR/TC workshop. Click to enlarge.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. This press conference was held at the very same GM facility where the EV1 Vigil took place during February and March 2005. said Holden. Los Angeles City Council, ret.

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Protean Electric forms partnerships for global production of in-wheel drive motors

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In-wheel electric drive startup Protean Electric ( earlier post ) has formed relationships with several leading companies in the global auto industry to accelerate its in-wheel electric drive systems to market in high-volume production. MAHLE Powertrain, an engineering service provider to the global automotive industry.

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Stellantis stops building of Canada EV battery module plant over federal price range

Baua Electric

‘WE CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE’ A spokesperson for Champagne stated Friday the “auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.” Inflation Reduction Act puts Canadian battery production at a significant disadvantage. Thomas, Ontario. “The U.S.

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Stellantis stops building of Ontario EV battery module plant over federal budget

Baua Electric

Effective immediately, all construction related to the battery module production on the Windsor site has stopped,” Stellantis mentioned in a commentary Monday. billion from LGES and secret contributions from federal and provincial governments, as the biggest ever within the Canadian auto sector. Thomas, Ont., Thomas, Ontario.

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

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The AC Propulsion experiment thus became an obscure footnote in the tortuous saga of the green automobile. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6 After earning a Ph.D.

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