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VinFast announces new EV facility in India

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Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) automaker VinFast announced it would build an integrated EV facility in Tamil Nadu, India. Over half of VinFast’s 1H23 sales were to parent company VinGroup’s taxi firm Both parties agreed to work towards a total investment of $2 billion into the EV facility.

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

Green Car Congress

ALTe already has Gen 1 proof-of-concept systems running in a Crown Vic taxi equipped with a 20 kWh Li-ion battery pack. Another benefit of targeting a conversion application such as the taxi fleet is that the vehicles are all out of warranty, Thomas noted.). Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Back in March-April when Covid hit the West hard, conventional punditry piped up its sorry head, saying EVs (and green policies in general) are a goner for 2020, probably also into 2021. The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. OVERVIEW: WHEW, WHAT A YEAR! I have no idea.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. by Bill Cooke.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

Green Car Congress

Now, however, given all the market drivers facing the auto industry (regulations, fossil fuel availability, societal changes, etc.), Building an e-Golf: the basic production flow for the e-Golf at the Wolfsburg plant. This includes the battery pack, power electronics and all the connections, and first pack power to the vehicle.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

David Sokol is a student of management—he wrote a little book on the subject called “Pleased But Not Satisfied”—and he was impressed with Mr. Wang’s thoughtful and purposeful approach to building his company. Li Lu has agreed to come to FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference next week to talk about BYD. You can read my BYD story here.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!” For example, we build our hydraulic systems with pipes of ½-inch to ¾-inch diameter designed to deliver water faster than we normally need so that we can, for example, fill a swimming pool quickly. Similar processes can be followed again.

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