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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure from Tesla and BYD

Teslarati

The auto industry is faced with the question of whether and how we will be a global leader in the future,” Baerbock said at the event. For our nation, where the auto industry accounts for a large share of value creation, this is not just an economic issue, but also a question of security.”

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Study: tightening vehicle emissions standards resulted in higher rates of automaker non-compliance; unintended effects of threshold-based regulations

Green Car Congress

A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. This phenomenon isn’t limited to the auto industry. You have to hit the score to make it. —Kejia Hu.

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Volkswagen has ‘all the ingredients’ to succeed as the US shifts to EVs, but will it?

Baua Electric

Volkswagen’s CFO Arno Antlitz said Europe’s largest automaker has “all the ingredients” for success as the US auto industry shifts to electric. The company will build vehicles at its $2 billion facility in South Carolina. Despite this, VW is seeing reluctance for its EVs in Europe and potentially in the US as well.

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Volkswagen ID.Buzz & ID.7 to help VW gain 10% market share in the US [Feature]

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The all-electric Scout SUV will be built in a new $2 billion factory in South Carolina. The electric vehicle market has provided an opening for legacy automakers to reestablish their positions in the global auto industry. Besides the ID.Buzz and the ID.7,

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Who Actually Owns Tesla’s Data?

Cars That Think

“If the data exists…and in particular exists in the domain of somebody who’s not the subject of those data, it's much more likely that a government will eventually get access to them in some way,” says Bryant Walker Smith , an associate professor in the schools of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Morgantown, WV State of South Carolina. billion investment, coupled with another $2.4

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UAW officially launches union drive at Tesla, other automakers

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From Toyota to Tesla, from California to South Carolina, America's autoworkers are ready to Stand Up and win their fair share of the auto industry's record profits. manufacturing plants in the industry. It's time.

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