Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Fuel efficiency, safety innovation, and vehicle styling will be the three most important product issues influencing automotive consumer purchase decisions over the next five years, indicating a perceived shift in buying priorities, according to the 12 th annual global automotive survey conducted by KPMG LLP.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition. The other 82% were the Bolt EV and EUV—which it has taken out of production. Hyundai/Kia and the Chinese certainly aren’t waiting.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Union Cabinet has approved a revised PLI (production-linked incentive) scheme for the auto industry and the auto component industry with a budgetary outlay of Rs. The PLI scheme will bring fresh investments of over Rs 42,500 crore in five years and an incremental production of over Rs 2.3 lakh crore.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The report claims the state government has approved Ola’s plan to acquire the land in what could be one of the largest factory deals in the Indian auto industry. Citing sources, the report said an announcement by Ola’s CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on the matter could be made in the next few days.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A Noida based Power Global is a leading high-performance clean energy and mobility product for everyday applications has launched its first eZee swappable battery in India. The Power Global introduces its first Retrofit kits to convert the petrol and diesel vehicles three-wheelers (auto-rickshaws) into electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JULY 6, 2024

At the heart of Japanese manufacturing — known for its precision, efficiency, and relentless pursuit of improvement — are techniques like Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), a transformative approach developed by Seiichi Nakajima in the mid-1900s. The same production equipment has to deliver these SKUs. million units per annum.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The data was released yesterday by the California New Car Dealer’s Association (CNCDA) in their quarterly Auto Outlook. This was the Q4 and full-year report, reflecting on trends in auto sales for the full year in the state that leads the US in EV sales. While auto sales as a whole were up in California by 11.9%

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

The bill in question, HB 3994, aims to update and change parts of existing Oklahoma statutes related to the state’s auto industry. As per Dobrinski’s LinkedIn page , he was the Owner/Dealer of Dobrinski Chevrolet, Inc. until March 2017, and he was the Dealer/Owner of Dobrinski of Kingfisher, Inc.,

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Pininfarina’s newest dealership is Salt Lake City Motorcars in Utah, the company’s 11th dealer in the U.S., following the establishment of a brand new network of dealers that began in 2021. Pininfarina is once again on the very cutting edge of the auto industry, blending beauty and the future of mobility in amazing harmony.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to statistics from the China Automobile Dealers Association, my country’s auto exports will reach 2.015 million in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 101.1%, exceeding 2 million for the first time in history. From January to September 2022, auto companies exported 2.117 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 55.5%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance gives us access to a wide array of technologies, with more than 50 billion euros in R&D investment over the next six years, part of which will enable Renault-Brilliance-Jinbei Automotive Company to develop products tailored to the Chinese market. —Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Groupe Renault.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Prior to Tesla, Thomas was Director of Special Projects at Magna Steyr, VP and Division General Manager at auto supplier Collins & Aikman, and a powertrain component design engineer and powertrain system project and project engineer for 10 years. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6 billion in Federal support for GM and $2 billion for Chrysler; deeper job and brand cuts; as well as product plans for the surviving versions of the automakers. GM product plans.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

Two years into 2022, while stories of the expected new EVs for the year were being published, Tesla announced it has delivered 308,600 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter, besting its own record for quarterly EV production. The impact on the auto industry, particularly the still growing electric sector, could be profound.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

in 2014 as a result of industrial overcapacity and weakness in the real estate sector. million units, aided with increased auto finance penetration, fast dealership expansion and government vehicle scrappage programs. For the APAC region in 2015, IHS forecasts that China’s economic growth will decelerate further, to 6.5% million units.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2016

The class-wide settlement in the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation will provide owners and lessees of Volkswagen and Audi 2.0-liter If approved by the Court, this will be the largest consumer auto industry class action settlement in US history. billion dollars.).

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 11, 2021

The total production of Passenger Vehicles, Three-wheelers, Two-wheelers and Quadricycle in May’21 was 806,755 units, as against 2,417,597 units in May’19, resulting in a de-growth of (-) 66.63%. The auto industry is witnessing a de-growth when compared to the sales of vehicles from 2021 to 2019. .

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As there are no dealers, and all sales will happen directly with customers, assuming a margin of a lac rupees per car, that will be Rs 20 CR profit per annum if Strom manages to sell 200 cars each year. And they will need investment if they want to fund RnD and future product development. Increase production numbers.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 14, 2023

China's auto industry is facing cyclical swings in the transition to electrification that can't be weathered by price wars and require automakers to stick to brand values, an NIO executive said. Not only is NIO not dropping prices for 90 days, but prices won't change for a longer period of time, he said.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

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. As high-volume production brings down their price, we can taper down the incentive over a second five million.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

This has created a knock-on effect for both vehicle sales and production, with dealerships devoid of customers and factories at a standstill with no one to operate them. There was barely anybody at car dealers in the first week of February as most people stayed at home. —Mike Vousden. yearly decline seen one year earlier.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. The automaker has already begun idling auto plants and is warning of future closures to pay for its transition to EVs and to try to keep EV prices affordable.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2014

Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen AG, on the eve of the Auto China motor show in Beijing. In addition, the Group’s dealer network will see significant growth and increase by 50% from the present approximately 2,400 dealerships to more than 3,600. earlier post ) and e-Golf ( earlier post ) models. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 8, 2024

According to Panasonic Energy’s president, the company needs more plants to increase its annual production capacity from 50 GWh to 200 GWh by 2031. More auto dealers are also signing up for the point-of-sale EV tax credits.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 5, 2021

The CEO of Mean Metal Motors Sarthak Paul said, “Since the auto industry is being given a big EV push, it is time that Mean Metal Motors shows its prowess. India is way far behind in its production methods when compared to the west and we are here to change that.”. MMM’s proprietary tech lets them take a stab at it.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

India is the fifth-largest auto market with 3.49 It needs an investment of over US$180 billion in vehicle production and charging infrastructure. To develop e-mobility Rs 12 crore has been given as ‘e-mobility fund,’ which is used for the tax subsidy to 10,000 electric autos. PLI (production-linked incentive) scheme.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

This is despite being on a high base, with the rural market potential particularly emerging as the key enabler to sustain and drive the industry’s growth in CY24. Manish Raj Singhania, President, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) shares his optimism stemming from the country’s strong macroeconomics.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

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. Stop in at a car dealer today and let them know: No Plug? Here's my April column.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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. Establishing dealer network.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The new regulations will drive up the price of such conversions, putting them out of reach for most Prius owners, and ensuring that the only way to purchase a next generation eco-friendly car will be from one of the world’s two largest auto companies. But the auto companies hated the CARB rules and never really wanted to sell the cars.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Even if the total cost of ownership is lower for an EV, a potential EV customer may not be interested if meeting today’s monthly auto payments is difficult.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Heres our roundup of auto-maker comments in the media recently. Toyota has had a battery recycling program since 1998 and even offers dealers a $200 bounty to ensure batteries arent just thrown away (described at end of linked document). We wont know how dealers will respond to service requests until we start driving converted cars.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

4 that will be arriving at dealers soon. New Chinese Mini EV flying off the lots – Chinese customers took delivery of 200,000 Wuling Hongguang Mini EVs in the vehicle’s first 200 days of production. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

manufacturing operations, primarily due to a) the rising popularity of EVs and b) to guard against the kinds of challenges and risks in the international supply chain that have been one of the hallmarks of pandemic-era production; select specific plans include: Ford, which announced in June of this year that it would invest $3.7 and a third).

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