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BYD Europe aims to beat Tesla & big EU automakers

Teslarati

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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2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid $249 lease tops June plug-in, hybrid, electric car deals

Green Car Reports

Although the cheap low-interest or no-interest financing deals for new vehicles have mostly gone away, as the auto industry recalibrates supply to a new coronavirus-recovery norm for demand, many of them are still good through June in the green-car sector—leading to some standout deals for electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hybrid vehicles. (..)

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

Green Car Congress

Specifically, the firm estimates US auto sales will reach just 12.7 AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Emerging nations have gone from being just sources of cheap parts and labor to being bona fide markets, not to mention bona fide competitors.

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

Cars That Think

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. By the 1950s, the grid was moving electricity across time zones and national borders, tying in diverse sources of supply and demand.

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Tesla Model Y wins UK bestseller spot in March

Push EVs

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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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) 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.

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Wildcat ramps up its focus on EV Supercell breakthroughs

Charged EVs

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.