Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. It comments positively by saying Tesla accelerates transformation of entire auto industry & how it redefines MIC as high-quality prod in foreign markets.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2024

BYD has no plans to enter the US Market amid “complications’ [Feature] BYD Europe’s goals come at a time when the EU is wary of cheap Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). They are also priced lower than European EVs due to state subsidies, cheap labor in China, and robust Chinese battery supply chains.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The South Korean auto market will be different compared to other markets BYD has entered. The general consensus among South Korean auto industry insiders seems to be that BYD’s cheap electric vehicles will not be enough to convince local customers to purchase cars from the Chinese brand.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel. So as long as it seems a green option, it's a win-win for the little green giant of the Republican party and the sclerotic giant of the auto industry. Go Yellow to go green, says GM. And the NRDC promotes biofuel with grain coming out of a gas pump. And probably for NRDC's pocketbook, too.

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EV Adoption

JANUARY 22, 2022

I’m estimating 28,000 as an executive with a leading auto analyst firm confirmed to me privately that their registration estimates for 2021 put the RAV4 Prime and Wrangler 4xe as a toss up. Auto Industry Analyst. credit off the the cap cost makes it a real cheap lease on 53k Jeep. Flip a coin. Leased mine.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. And I was there representing Plug In America.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs.

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Charged EVs

JULY 1, 2024

Now, manufacturers have taken advantage of LFP’s lower fire risk to design batteries with high pack-level energy density, and LFP has become the EV industry’s fastest-growing cathode material. These products perform similarly, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage. Mark Gresser: Yes.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It’s official: The European Union is moving ahead with increased tariffs on Chinese-made EVs to as much as 45.3% – in an effort to save its auto industry from total demise. Subsidized solar panels have also wiped out European solar producers , and European governments are hoping the auto industry can avoid the same fate.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 5, 2024

on Chinese EVs are designed to protect its struggling auto industry from Chinese competition, with Chinese automakers flooding the bloc with cheap imports. The European Union’s latest EV tariffs of up to 45.3%

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry. If high gas prices aren’t an issue then most Americans opt for the horsepower of bigger cars and trucks. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data centers—is leading utilities to forecast single-digit percentage growth every year through the end of the decade in some regions, according to report.

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Push EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

Ongoing large popular protests across the country , however, may yet throw a spanner in the works of the economy in 2023, including perhaps the auto industry. Inflation is coming under control (5.6% previously).

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

But with these increased tariffs, that makes it a little less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs. This isn’t the first move that Biden has made to limit the ability of the Chinese auto industry to operate in the US.

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Push EVs

APRIL 13, 2023

HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. The auto industry body, the SMMT, is forecasting the auto market to be one of the few prospective growth stories of the coming year.

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Baua Electric

JULY 1, 2024

Now, manufacturers have taken advantage of LFP’s lower fire risk to design batteries with high pack-level energy density, and LFP has become the EV industry’s fastest-growing cathode material. These products perform similarly, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage. LMFP is a manganese-rich version of LFP.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

While nickel isn’t [as expensive as] cobalt, nickel isn’t as cheap as some others. And what’s interesting is that our high-capacity cathode material, just by itself, would be a fairly big deal for our industry. But as a result, the composition we’ve come up with doesn’t need to contain nickel and actually works better without nickel.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Plus: what's next in the EV race from Jeep, and how Rivian can cross "the valley of death."

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. We just had to do it.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The United States government has pulled out massive tariffs in an attempt to prevent Chinese automakers from flooding the market with cheap vehicles, but the country’s industry has found loopholes that could help it get around those actions, including manufacturing vehicles in other countries.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Hurricane-force winds are blowing through the global auto industry, and we may just have seen the first roof fly off. German carmaker Volkswagen has announced that it plans to close at least three factories in Germany, for the first time in the company’s history.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 21, 2024

On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford took to X to accuse China of poor local manufacturing practices in building its inexpensive EVs: Taking every advantage of low labour standards and dirty energy, China is flooding the market with artificially cheap electric vehicles. Unless we act fast, we risk Ontario and Canadian jobs.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I dunno if it’s the biggest surprise, but the most pleasing news of 2022 was the way the irrepressible die-hards in what remains of the Aussie auto industry leapt on the opportunity EV presents. Biggest EV surprise of 2022. The EV I’m most looking forward to in 2023. Kia Niro EV GT-Line review.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. Never having made a “proper” passenger EV before, Peugeot’s EV version of its flagship 208 compact (range ~300km) jumped out of nowhere straight into #8 in the dense European EV sales chart.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

But with these increased tariffs, that makes it less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs. This isn’t the first move that Biden has made to limit the ability of the Chinese auto industry to operate in the US.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

The purpose of the new tariffs is to prevent American automakers from needing to compete head to head with Chinese automakers, whose lower cost electric vehicles could otherwise make their way stateside and catch the US auto industry with its pants down.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Cars are changing quickly, as is car manufacturing. But that sort of sentiment is popular.

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