Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

The auto industry has now grudgingly accepted that battery-electric cars will make up some portion of the world's new vehicles in years to come. Policy makers in the world's most populous country, and largest car market, are developing a timetable to end production and sales of.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

The new plant of The SAIC Volkswagen joint venture’s new plant—which is dedicated to production of all electric vehicles on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Drive Matrix (MEB)—has been completed in Anting, Shanghai. Celebrating the start of pre-production, a first China-specific all-electric Volkswagen ID.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2017

With an evolving shift to electrified and plug-in electric cars, the changes that will bring to the auto industry are far from limited to the powertrains. The entire mass-production and vehicle assembly process the industry pioneered a century ago will require major restructuring, it appears.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2014

A few more details on the upcoming 2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV electric car are starting to come into focus, including its production date and a second version to be sold in Europe. Based on information from two separate sources in the auto industry, here''s what we now know about Chevy''s next all-electric car.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Volvo Cars reported sales of 42,067 cars in February, a decline by 17.2% Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge models made up for 33.0% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month. Sales of fully electric cars increased by 229.5% In the first two months of the year, Volvo Cars sold 89,628 cars, a decline by 18.8%

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 10, 2022

Unlike in the traditional fossil fuel auto industry where models would have a long 7-year or so cycle before getting a major upgrade, the Wuling Mini EV ecosystem seems to have abandoned this traditional approach. Things happen really fast in the world of the Wuling Mini EV and related models.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2022

billion at two of its Canadian vehicle production plants as part of a dedicated EV and software push. “Today’s deal on made-in-Canada electric vehicles is yet another investment in our workers and in our future. During CES this year, for example, Stellantis stated that its Chrysler brand would be all-electric by 2028.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

2022 Mitsubishi eK X EV kei car for the Japan market Westcott was speaking as the auto industry waits for the federal government to reveal details of its new fuel standard intended to encourage the take-up of electric vehicles. Neither are as yet ruled in or out for Australia. “We

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Comparison of the personnel requirements under four scenarios in the ELAB study for an idealized production of 1 million powertrains. The technological change will also lead to new production flows and technologies, with heretofore unused or completely new manufacturing methods being employed. Source: ELAB Studienergebnisse.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2014

Car production data may cause some eyes to glaze over, but the numbers are closely followed in the auto industry. Electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t report its exact sales, nor its precise production, so a cottage industry has sprung up to track its alleged production.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2015

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. DON'T MISS.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Electric cars may be seen by some as part of a seemingly unstoppable, powerful technological wave that will disrupt not just the auto industry but most other forms of transportation.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2022

Ford believes the Valencia, Spain plant is the ideal location for making cars with a next-generation EV architecture and plans to produce the vehicles later this decade. Ford said that, pending product approval, the Valencia plant could begin producing breakthrough EVs and connected vehicles later in the 2020s.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 21, 2021

By Abhishek & Kamlesh ​ In this episode of Electric Car watch, we will talk about the Indian electric car startup Strom Motors and what they need to do to be a relevant player this decade. Electric Car Watch ? A 3 wheeled reverse trike electric car to be made in India.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2018

Tesla airlifted six plane loads of factory machinery from Europe to California to speed up battery production for its Model 3 electric car, according to a Reuters report. Transporting factory machinery by air is rare in the auto industry due to.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Once upon a time, electric cars were uncool, dorky, niche, and it wouldn’t be an understatement to say that very few people in the auto industry thought they were the future of transportation. How minds and narratives can change! Of course, while it’s easy to look at where we are today and say it was […].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How Mazda plans to integrate plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles into its range of increasingly efficient gasoline and diesel models is a topic that interests parts of the global auto industry.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2024

Citing people reportedly familiar with the matter, Reuters recently claimed that Tesla has informed its suppliers that it is looking to start the production of its next-generation platform in mid-2025. A new mass-market electric car that would be built on this platform is reportedly codenamed “Redwood.”

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2017

Today, Tesla and its impact on the German auto industry crop up in two very different reports, you can get $10,000 off an electric car (if you live in San Diego), and we honor Dull and Boring drivers. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 20, 2023

Electric vehicles are quickly becoming the center of attention in the auto industry, and while Tesla has been dominating deliveries and production of zero-tailpipe-emission vehicles in recent years, it’s also becoming more valuable as a brand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2022

During the first quarter, the number of cars sold increased gradually to a total of 148,295 cars as the supply chain constraints affecting Volvo Cars and the auto industry continued to slowly ease. In March, sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge models made up 35.5% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Volkswagen is launching its “Electric for All” campaign—a strategic effort to put attractive electric vehicles at affordable prices on the road, paving the way for the breakthrough of electric vehicles. Production of the Volkswagen ID., Now, we’re transferring this know-how and this strategy to the electric age.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2017

It's one of the most fascinating sets of questions in the auto industry. How quickly can Tesla Motors put its Model 3 electric car into production? How many cars can it build this year? At a promised starting price of $35,000, the Model 3 is not only Tesla's latest moonshot but the car that.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2015

The rate of sales growth for electric cars may be the greatest unknown in the auto industry as companies prepare to spend billions of dollars on new products. Electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] projects annual sales to increase by 50 percent for years to come.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

While the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of 2016.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

The announcement that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go into production within 18 months seemingly sent shockwaves through the auto industry. GM''s crosstown rival Ford, which has sold hybrids for more than 10 years but shown little love for battery-electric cars, now seems to feel the need to respond.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

New Products Delayed as Company Shifts to Delivering Current Vehicles. Tesla’s focus for 2022 is quality & quantity of current product. The growth is predicated on two new production facilities—in Texas and Germany—coming online this year to augment existing plants in Fremont, California, and Shanghai, China.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 31, 2018

Of the 90 million or so new vehicles sold globally last year, plug-in electric cars made up only a tiny proportion, roughly 1 percent.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We remain committed to an all-electric future,” says GM as it announces a rollback of its electrification plans. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 3, 2023

BYD’s sales of pure electric cars lag against Tesla’s, but in terms of raw NEV volumes, the Chinese automaker is far ahead of the American EV company. India is an increasingly important market in the auto industry. These include BYD, which outsell Tesla in China in terms of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) sales.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

The Tech Fund’s other investment, UVeye, has developed advanced technology for the automatic external inspection and scanning of cars for damages, dents and scratches. Volvo Cars believes using UVeye’s technology could further improve the quality of cars leaving the factory and ensure that even tiny faults are detected.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2019

Since 2010, SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has improved its production-related environmental footprint by 34% on average with measures to emit less CO 2 and fewer volatile organic compounds, generate less waste and consume less water and energy. —SEAT Vice-president for Production and Logistics Dr. Christian Vollmer.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com It was a very good year in France for electric cars, for all kinds of reasons – among them, new cheaper cars entering the market supported by generous government subsidies. In 2023, 26% of new cars sold in France were battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, a huge 47% jump from 2022.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2009

There is an existing market for electric vehicles, especially among those who can afford the extra cost of limited-production new technology vehicles. There are no cars for sale. Consumers would be buying now if there were products,” says Gregor Matthies, a Munich-based partner at Bain who specializes in the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

But the automakers are now accelerating their efforts to develop electric cars, and there are two main reasons for this. The second reason for the heightened focus on electric cars is China’s move to promote them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan. Earlier post.).

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