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Nevs in strategic cooperation with China’s State Grid for EVs

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SGCC constructs and operates power grids as its core business, to provide safer, cleaner, and more economic and sustainable power supply. National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs) vision is to shape mobility for a more sustainable future. Nevs was founded in 2012 and acquired the main assets of Saab Automobile AB.

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Volkswagen to invest ~$18B in China through 2022 on e-mobility, autonomy, digitalization, mobility services; new JAC-VW electric SUV

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Volkswagen is due to introduce ten fully electric models by 2023 in this major market alone, with plans in place to produce and sell a total of around 650,000 fully electric cars in China in 2025. We are accelerating to make mobility cleaner, safer and more intelligent to really improve people’s lives.

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Audi will phase out gas engines by 2033, reversing past stance of CEO

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Starting in 2026, Audi will only release new models into the global market that are fully electric, giving the company a head start on its “strategic realignment,” donning in a new era of Audi vehicles to the world’s automotive market. Instead of banning, he is looking at it as innovation.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

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China, for instance, wants to put 5 million plug-in hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, which could account for more than 40% of the global EV fleet that year. Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. million EVs and a fleet of 3.5

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

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As a result of the lockdown, automobile production ground to a halt in several leading car manufacturing countries. last month, but battery electric vehicle sales decreased by only 58.1%. Chinese car producer BYD even recorded a 337.25% increase in March sales amongst its fully electric and hybrid car models.

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