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Volkswagen unveils third-generation Touareg SUV in China; plug-in hybrid drive this year

Green Car Congress

Worldwide sales of the previous two generations amount to nearly one million units; the largest markets for the new Touareg—which serves as a technology flagship for the automaker—are China, Europe and Russia. Like a new smartphone, the Volkswagen is set up and tuned to personal needs. Volkswagen in China: SUVs.

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UMTRI study finds US and China could turnover more than 90% of LDV fleet to alternative powertrains by 2050 under very aggressive penetration scenarios

Green Car Congress

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Turnover of the Chinese fleet.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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Toni Sacconaghi: It’s a more personal one for you, Elon, which is that you’re leading many important companies right now. Putting aside Robotaxi, those features unique to you, how long would it take your best Chinese competitors to copy a cheaper and better vehicle that you could offer a couple of years from now?

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. There’s very, very little regulation on the automobile because the power of the United States was as an industrial behemoth, and the idea is like, “We don’t want to stop that.” He was a brilliant, brilliant person.

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