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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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China is the world’s largest automotive market, and understandably so, an important one for electric vehicle (EV) makers like Tesla. market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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Enova Delivers Hybrid Drive Systems to First Auto Works for Hybrid Buses

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These hybrid power buses are part of China’s initiative to produce 500,000 electric and hybrid power vehicles. The initiative will account for 5% of the automobile market, which is in accordance with China’s three-year development plan for the auto industry, released in February.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Island Press, 1998; translated into Chinese, China Architecture and Building Press, 2007. Cervero, The Transit Metropolis.

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asia India China Europe Americas en Español em Português Login/Register to set your edition Set my edition Todays Paper Video Columns Blogs Graphics Journal Community Register for FREE Register for FREE Thank you for registering. GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events.

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Goodbye GM, Hello Tianjin-Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Company?

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I write a monthly column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. And these days a billion dollars is barely a rounding error in the money going to prop up the American auto industry. Tags: byd tianjin-qingyan electric charging infrastructure battery electric car. Here's my April column.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker.

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