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Pininfarina grows its U.S. footprint in early bid for EV hypercar market control

Teslarati

Automobili Pininfarina has announced today that it is again expanding its dealership network in the United States as it looks to take advantage of the small number of electric hypercars currently on the market. Moreover, mainstream brands like Porsche, Mercedes, and Audi have yet to electrify their highest-performance offerings.

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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure from Tesla and BYD

Teslarati

During the pandemic, Volkswagen fell behind in the Chinese auto market as companies like BYD, Nio, and Tesla took over, with the competition nearly doubling the market’s EV and hybrid offerings (via Bloomberg ). Volkswagen’s Scout to build $40K electric SUV in South Carolina What are your thoughts?

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Eaton Supercharger Debuts in China on Three New Chery Engines

Green Car Congress

Fuel savings and emission reduction are the new themes for China’s auto industry. We are pleased to cooperate with Eaton and bring these high-performing superchargers to the China market. Eaton is the worldwide leader in supercharger solutions for small displacement engines for customers in markets around the world.

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April 2023 – Good month for Volkswagen in the UK

Push EVs

The UK car market saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.9% Overall auto volume was 132,990 units, up 11.6% YoY overall market growth, BEVs grew volume 59% to 20,522 units, and PHEVs grew 33%, to 8,595 units. Most of the auto market’s volume growth, in fact, came from plugins. year on year.

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New: EVAdoption Quarterly US Electric Vehicle (EV) Sales Scoreboard

EV Adoption

With OEMs only reporting sales on so few EV models, we have to build models and estimate the sales numbers for nearly 85% of the EVs currently available in the US. The Porsche Taycan saw a small unit increase, but it still amounted to 67% growth in Q2 over Q1. New to the scoreboard in Q3 was the Audi e-tron GT.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

EV Central

And while it’s improved, the build quality doesn’t match the big boys (you don’t have to look far to spot glitches). But it’s the volume end of the market where the action is, which is why I’m super interested in the next BYD arrivals, the Dolphin and Seal. Biggest EV surprise of 2022. But is it any good?

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2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5: First of an aggressive wave of new EVs

Charged EVs

But the Ioniq 5 and its underlying technology show how serious Hyundai-Kia has become about offering EVs that appeal to mass-market buyers. Unfortunately for its US marketers, the Pony was never sold in the United States (though it did appear briefly in Canada). The same platform also underpins an EV from Hyundai’s sister brand, Kia.

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