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Toyota to launch two new plug-in hybrid models in China; Corolla and Levin

Green Car Congress

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. At present, it is available in models sold in Europe and Japan.

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Oil companies “break the circle”! Total Energy to build tens of thousands of charging piles in China

Setec Powerr

In addition to deploying the Chinese market, Total Energy’s charging pile business also involves important cities in many countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Singapore. In the process of global electrification, the performance of the Chinese market can be described as outstanding.

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charging stations business in India.

Electric Vehicles India

As we all can see how Electric vehicles were growing day by day and there is a lot of opportunity in the automobile industry at moment there are fewer charging stations in India but in the future, it will become a game-changer in Indian business in other. In India, most EVs are on the CCS protocol.

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Deloitte global survey gauges consumer prospects for EVs in China, Europe and Americas; China leads

Green Car Congress

Broadly, the survey found that the majority of consumers’ in the world’s four largest automotive markets either identify themselves as potential first movers, or at least willing to consider purchasing an electric vehicle (China 93%, Europe 69%, US 54%, and Japan 48%). —John Hung, Managing Partner, Automotive Sector, Deloitte China.

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CHAdeMO, China Electricity Council to co-develop next-gen ultra-fast EV charging standard; backward compatibility with CHAdeMO, GB/T

Green Car Congress

CEC, a Chinese Government-approved association in charge of standardization of EV charging equipment, is evaluating high-power charging technologies and promoting demo projects and pilot studies for the creation of a new, Ultra-Fast charging standard to prepare for the expected market needs in the future.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). On the other side are two allied car makers, Frances Renault SA and Japans Nissan Motor Co., I got beaten down a number of times." This is unusual.

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

Cars That Think

It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently conceived the technology, and then worked in secret, racing to commercialize the technology, and without even being aware of the other’s efforts. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron.