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MAY 9, 2024

South Korea on Wednesday welcomed a US decision to extend automakers’ eligibility for electric vehicle tax credits for cars containing Chinese graphite through 2026. The new rules now let car buyers get up to USD 7,500 in tax credits for electric vehicles (EV) containing Chinese graphite through 2026.

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APRIL 19, 2024

billion euros worth of new orders in the quarter, more than half of which came from Asia on the back of new deals with Chinese automakers. European automotive supplier Forvia reported higher organic sales for the first-quarter on Thursday driven by strong North America, and said new awards from Chinese carmakers had boosted quarterly orders.

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MAY 1, 2024

Musk has been struggling to lay his hands on enormous amounts of data to feed AI in cars to be able to drive themselves. Elon Musk ‘s vision for personal mobility is cars running on clean fuel and driving themselves. The second part of his vision – driverless cars – is still elusive.

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MAY 28, 2024

Volkswagen also detailed plans for a range of new battery-powered cars for under 25,000 euros to be unveiled as soon as the end of 2025. German auto giant Volkswagen on Tuesday announced plans for a cheaper-than-ever electric model, as it faces increasingly strong competition from Asian rivals that have taken a lead in battery technology.

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MAY 20, 2024

.” German automaker BMW imported at least 8,000 Mini Cooper vehicles into the United States with electronic components from a banned Chinese supplier, a U.S. The report found that Bourns Inc, a California-based auto supplier, had sourced components from Sichuan Jingweida Technology Group (JWD).

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APRIL 23, 2024

European automakers face a trifecta of challenges: soft demand due to higher borrowing costs that discourage car purchases, fierce competition from Chinese rivals, and higher input costs squeezing their margins.

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MAY 23, 2024

Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday. Tesla opened an EV plant in Shanghai in 2019 that assembles cars for China, Europe and other overseas markets. 2 seller in the booming Chinese market for electric vehicles.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Musk arrived in the Chinese capital on an unannounced visit on Sunday, intending to discuss the rollout of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and the data-transfer permissions, said a source. Musk’s meetings included one with Chinese Premier Li Qiang , who praised Tesla’s development in China.

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APRIL 26, 2024

It’s taken Huawei just four years to become a force in smart car technology , navigating the devastation of trade sanctions on its smartphones business while simultaneously developing a driver assistance system that is the darling of the Beijing auto show. Audi said it does not comment on suppliers.

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JUNE 7, 2024

Tesla released a software upgrade for its in-car navigation system in China on Friday, introducing new features such as displaying lane markings on its maps that correspond to the actual lanes on the road. Tesla in China was not immediately available to comment.

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JUNE 4, 2024

EV market demand has shifted toward so-called LFP batteries, which are less powerful but also less expensive and longer lasting than NMC batteries, and increasingly found on cars made by industry leaders Tesla and China’s BYD. In February, the company said it had secured 4.4 billion euros (USD 4.8

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APRIL 24, 2024

Huawei said in November that the unit would be spun off into a new company which will receive the unit’s core technologies and resources and take investment from partners such as automaker Changan Auto.

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MARCH 14, 2024

MG Motors, a unit of Chinese automaker SAIC, will open a second European parts centre by the summer of 2024 in France to meet the country’s growing demand for its vehicles, a spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. SAIC is currently evaluating whether to build a factory in Europe.

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MAY 9, 2024

Chinese battery makers grew faster than rivals to account for more than two-thirds of global EV battery capacity last year, according to data from consultancy Counterpoint Research. It has a plant in Nevada and has broken ground on a second one in Kansas, which would take its auto battery capacity to 80 gigawatt hours (GWh) a year.

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JUNE 4, 2024

China has granted approval to a first group of nine automakers to carry out tests on vehicles with advanced autonomous driving technologies on public roads, as part of a plan to accelerate adoption of self-driving cars. Fleet operators such as ride-hailing companies will also be involved in the tests.

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APRIL 28, 2024

This came close on the heels of Tesla introducing fresh incentives in the world’s largest auto market to attract consumers. Tesla’s cars made in China passed key data security and privacy requirement in China, handing Musk a major win who visited Beijing to seek approval to introduce driver-assistance software. Tesla Inc.’s

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MAY 6, 2024

Production of the car component at the town of Gifhorn will end in 2027 and move to Croatia, the Czech Republic and Wales to keep the costs “competitive”, according to Continental, which will cut about 7,000 jobs worldwide. Another 100 could find a home at a nearby Siemens mobility plant that supplies rail companies.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPeng on Thursday said its software and artificial intelligence training upgrades will enter a “super fast cycle” from May, and that it hopes use of its platform will expand to other Asian countries and Europe. In February, XPeng said it plans to hire 4,000 people this year and invest 3.5

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MAY 21, 2024

Panasonic, whose energy unit makes batteries for Tesla , is closely watching its Chinese supply chain and battery material procurement following China’s move last year to tighten graphite export controls, Yuki Kusumi said. A slowdown in the take-up of electric vehicles in the U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia said four Chinese electric vehicle brands will use its technology as the brains for automated driving systems, underscoring the U.S. Chinese automakers are racing each other to launch more advanced in-vehicle infotainment displays and automated driving functions. Nvidia and its U.S.-based

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JUNE 6, 2024

markets and its existing automotive industry make it attractive to Chinese EV battery makers. In May, Chinese auto battery manufacturers Hailiang and Shinzoom announced plans to set up two separate plants near Tangier, that would produce key EV battery ingredients: copper and anodes respectively.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Volkswagen operates a plant in Xinjiang as part of a joint venture with Chinese state-owned carmaker SAIC Motor. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately answer questions about the report sent by fax by The Associated Press. The companies listed in the new report also include Chinese electrical vehicle giant BYD.

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APRIL 25, 2024

But other Chinese automakers, including state-run companies that were later entrants to the EV race, have closed the gap on sub-USD 10,000 EVs at the Beijing auto show that began Thursday. Last year, BYD shocked the automotive industry with the release of its Seagull EV, now priced under USD 10,000, at the Shanghai auto show.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

The partnership comes as the European auto industry readies for a “battery passport” that will trace the content and carbon footprint of EV cells sold in Europe. Circulor CEO Douglas Johnson-Poensgen said the company was currently talking to companies up and down the EV battery cell supply chain.

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MAY 9, 2024

Lithium-ion batteries are a form of rechargeable energy storage used in everything from electric cars to scooters, laptops and motorised wheelchairs. China is the world’s largest lithium battery market , accounting for some 57% of global demand in 2022, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Chinese state media reported that he met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing but did not say what they discussed. automaker won a key endorsement that coincided with his trip – from a top Chinese auto association which said Tesla’s Model 3 and Y cars were among models found to be compliant with China’s data security requirements.

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APRIL 25, 2024

The separate announcements from two of Japan’s biggest automakers at the Beijing auto show also underscored the attempt by Japanese manufacturers to come to grips with the massive technological shifts that have disrupted their once enviable positions in the Chinese market.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Addressing this safety concern, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has indicated potential adjustments to car crash testing protocols by 2026. Touchscreen infotainment systems have become a staple feature in modern car interiors , boasting sleek designs and user-friendly interfaces. It could prove dangerous.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Tao said Tesla was leading autonomous driving research and development with its “end-to-end neural network” technology and data collected from millions of cars on the road. Tesla reached an accord with Chinese authorities for a plant in Shanghai, its first outside the United States, in 2018.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Baidu , China’s major internet search company, reached an agreement with Tesla to grant the car company access to its mapping license for data collection on China’s public roads, two people familiar with the matter said. Foreign firms need to partner with domestic companies that have obtained the license.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Morocco is home to production plants by Stellantis and Renault with an annual combined production capacity of 700,000 cars as well as a cluster of local suppliers. Last week, the Moroccan government gave the green light for Chinese electric battery maker BTR New Material Group to build a factory near Tangier to produce key component cathodes.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global said its self-driving unit’s joint venture with EV maker GAC Aion has received a business license, registering itself as the first JV in China for mass production of fully self-driving electric robotaxis in the country.

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APRIL 30, 2023

Prices for industrial materials such as ferrous and nonferrous metals are plummeting, with steel marking a five-year low as concerns grow about a slowing Chinese economy and a resulting supply glut, reported Nikkei Asia. Compounding this are worries that Chinese producers with excess supply will ramp up exports, depressing prices globally.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Chinese manufacturer CALB is planning on building a lithium-ion battery factory in Portugal, the APA Portuguese environment agency said on Monday. Portugal has the largest reserves in Europe of lithium, the main element in the batteries that power electric cars. The two billion-euro (USD 2.2

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JANUARY 31, 2024

This year, Tesla’s cheapest cars, the Model 3 compact sedan, lost tax credits for the purchase of EVs under the Inflation Reduction Act. Tesla is expanding its battery facility in Sparks, Nevada to bring the supply chain for cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries (LFP) to the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

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MARCH 6, 2024

A Waymo robotaxi was attacked and set on fire in February as it stopped amid Chinese New Year celebrations in San Francisco’s Chinatown, followed an incident in which another Waymo car struck a bicyclist at a city intersection.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Six of them have been permitted for driverless testing: Waymo, Amazon’s Zoox unit, Chinese search giant Baidu’s Apollo, and startups Nuro, WeRide and AutoX. Concerns about Chinese companies testing autonomous vehicles have also grown, with some U.S.

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