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European automotive sector calls for vehicle renewal incentives to kickstart economic recovery after COVID-19; 25-point action plan

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We need a coordinated relaunch of industrial and retail activity, with maintained liquidity for businesses. Demand stimulus will boost the utilization of our manufacturing capacity, safeguarding jobs and investments. —Eric-Mark Huitema, Director General of ACEA, the automobile manufacturers’ association.

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China Forecast to Produce 12M Vehicles This year

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Chinese domestic auto makers were expected to produce and sell more than 8 million units of vehicles in first eight months this year respectively, said Chen Bin, director of the Department of Industry under the NDRC. Sales of China’s domestically-made automobiles totaled 1.09 Sales of China’s domestically-made automobiles totaled 1.09

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China Car Sales Likely Hit New Record in April

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Bolstered by government stimulus plans, sales of autos in China likely reached a record high of 1.15 million units, according to estimates from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). Assuming the CAAM figures are borne out by official data, April would be the fifth straight month of growth for the industry.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Power plant capital costs.

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China on track for 12million vehicles

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A report in the People’s Daily quotes Chen Bin, director of the Department of Industry under the NDRC, as stating that Chinese car manufacturers were originally expected to produce and sell more than eight million units of vehicles in the first eight months of the year.

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