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Renault CEO calls for Auto European plan to protect against ‘onslaught of EVs from China’

Teslarati

Renault CEO Luca de Meo released a 19-page open letter to Europe describing an auto European plan to protect against the ‘onslaught of electric vehicles (EV)’ coming from China.” Meo stated that the center of the global automotive market has gravitated toward Asia. Buoyed by its huge domestic market (8.5

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Growing Plugless Hybrid EV Market Share In Japan Has Direct Implications On The African Vehicle Market

CleanTechnica EVs

The Japanese auto industry dictates the African vehicle market, especially in east and southern Africa, where 90% of the vehicles imported into this region are vehicles from Japan. Most of these vehicles are imported as used vehicles. Japanese brands rule in Africa and Toyota is King.

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UK auto industry warns anti-diesel agenda and slow uptake of EVs could mean missing 2021 CO2 targets; rising CO2 average in 2017

Green Car Congress

Diesel market share declined by more than five percentage points to 42.0%. Meanwhile, a substantial fall in registrations of smaller cars also had a significant effect, as falling consumer confidence hit the lower end of the market. million strong new car market still powered, wholly or in part, by gasoline or diesel.

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Tata Motors urges govt to keep hybrid tax, Toyota lobbies for cut

Baua Electric

Read more Tata Motors has opposed Toyota’s appeal for tax reduction on hybrid cars, claiming that they are more polluting than electric vehicles and should not be given a tax advantage. Hybrid cars have been touted as the bridge to fill in the gap between internal combustion engine technology and electric propulsion tech.

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China publishes plan to boost fuel-efficient and new energy vehicles and domestic auto industry; targeting 500K PHEVs and EVs in 2015, rising to 2M by 2020

Green Car Congress

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. Fuel cell stack research.

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ISU study finds large potential for biobased materials in auto industry, but with challenges

Green Car Congress

However, they noted, there are also many challenges associated with the use of biobased parts in the auto industry. Marketing the use of biobased materials being used in an automobile costs money and must be part of the consideration in the cost of using biobased parts. Cost to manufacture is one of the main considerations.

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BYD NEV sales up 262.9% YOY in October

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positioning BYD as a dominant player in China’s plug-in hybrid vehicles market. The Qin Plus DM-i and Song Plus DM-i took the 4 th and 8 th places, among PHEV market worldwide in August with sales of 13,043 and 8,731 units respectively. in April 2021 at the Shanghai Auto Show. BYD introduced the e-platform 3.0

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