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Toyota keeps world’s top-selling automaker crown in 2023, sells 1.12 crore cars

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The Japanese automobile giant’s global sales, including those of its subsidiaries Daihatsu and Hino, increased by 7.2 In comparison, the world’s top-selling carmaker Toyota sold 104,018 units of battery-powered electric vehicles. lakh units. per cent to 1.12 BYD claims to have sold about 30.2

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Volkswagen Group Research and KUKA partner to develop robot-supported services for autonomous and electric vehicles

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One of the aims of the research collaboration is to develop robot-based innovations for all-electric and autonomous automobiles. The driver simply has to position the electrically powered automobile in a designated parking space. These will be all-electric battery-powered vehicles.

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Yamaha introduces the NEO and E01 electric scooters in India

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Two-wheelers, as opposed to four-wheelers, have made a comparatively swift transition to electric vehicles in the Indian automobile sector. With India’s automobile industry pushing towards electrification, we believe Yamaha will add electric vehicles to its inventory in the near future.

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Ford and Portland General Electric Partner to Prepare Region for EVs

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PGE is partnering with state and local government, higher education, the automobile industry, and businesses to expand the electric vehicle infrastructure in Oregon. Ford will introduce its first pure battery electric vehicle, the Transit Connect Electric small commercial van, this year.

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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

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Natural gas and other alternative fuel vehicle technology is basically mature, the government said, and is headed toward initial industrialization. However, generally speaking, the government continued, China has not achieved a breakthrough with new energy automobiles and core components of the key technologies.

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Europe’s biggest EV market is about to hit a perfect storm of problems

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Germany’s VDA, an interest group for the country’s automobile industry, says that battery-powered vehicles are likely to see a decline from 524,000 units last year – more than any other European market – to 451,000 units this year.

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DLR and Wuppertal publish comprehensive global analysis of e-mobility technologies, outlook and lifecycle assessments

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At the moment, the automobile industry in Japan and the United States is pioneering the development of marketable vehicle models; they also produce the highest-selling models on the market. The analysts also found nearly 52,000 publications and 82,000 patents in the field of hybrid and electric vehicles over a period of 10 years.

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