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Comment on New report reveals why Nio periodically gets into tricky situations and how it defuses them by RC

CN EV Post

Nio fumble and you can juice your return with the premium. Nio could take a hint and follow Xpeng's hiring of a true auto industry professional, not a marketing guru. Buy on dips and immediately write covered calls no more than a month out expiration date. You won't get left bag holding on the next 'what the fuuuuu.'

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

No less an auto industry titan as Ford has also made bidirectional charging a selling point of their F-150 Lightning electric truck, reportedly slated to roll off the lines this year. The ratio of marketing and expectations to intake of real-world information is still steep. It’s not quite ready for the mainstream yet, though.

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Opinion: Hey VW, Electric Vehicles Are Not a Joke

Clean Fleet Report

One or two or sometimes more companies let their PR folks’ creative juices loose on a gag press release sent on April 1. The auto industry is not known as a second career for comedy writers. Stellantis even showed off a fuel cell electric delivery van that will be on the European market later this year.

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

Cars That Think

Purveyors of EVs would have a new public-policy rationale backing up their market. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Domestic Tesla Model Y dominates the German EV market

Push EVs

Germany, Europe’s single largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.5% Overall auto volume was 206,210 units, up by some 3% YoY, but still some 18% down from pre-2020 seasonal norms. The Tesla Model Y was the month’s bestselling plugin, and second overall auto (behind the VW Golf). year on year.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

If you encounter such people or articles, all you need to do is point them to the numbers and trends in the auto market. Chinese auto will play a significant role in the auto industry in the future. If they don’t offer EV's or develop a plan for EV's, other companies will usurp their market positions.

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Electric two-wheeler sales surge to 935,000 units in FY2024 | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

This would mean that, similar to the market scenario on June 1, 2023, electric two-wheeler prices will rise as most OEMs would typically pass on the load to the consumer. In FY2024, the company’s market share increased to 00% from 24% in FY2023, clearly establishing its supremacy in the expanding market.

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