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Wildcat Discovery Technologies is building a US plant for LFP cathode and next-gen battery materials

Charged EVs

Wildcat Discovery Technologies uses proprietary high-throughput testing platforms to rapidly evaluate battery materials and chemistries for customers. Now, manufacturers have taken advantage of LFP’s lower fire risk to design batteries with high pack-level energy density, and LFP has become the EV industry’s fastest-growing cathode material.

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2025 Hyundai Inster review: the $40k city SUV challenge to the MG4, GWM Ora and BYD Dolphin

EV Central

Hopefully they’ll squeeze it in for less to properly challenge the Chinese cheapies, who this year have been busy price war squabbling. READ MORE: 10 reasons why you should buy the Hyundai Inster, and 3 why you shouldn’t. READ MORE: 10 reasons why you should buy the Hyundai Inster, and 3 why you shouldn’t.

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Special 2024 MG 4 XPower review: Brand’s first homegrown hero scores local upgrades that deliver China’s most scorching electric hot hatch

EV Central

The NOTGAS, for want of a better name, isn’t a production model, and you can’t buy one. But it is considered a proof of concept, designed to gauge interest and demand for locally improved models from the Chinese brand. That is to say you can’t actually buy one. Perceptions are difficult things to change.

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NIO CFO says confident of meeting this year's sales target

CN EV Post

That will be achieved through new models, expanding the company's charging and battery swap network, and unlocking self-driving technology, Feng said. It's almost consensus that China now has too many automakers, but we have no plan to buy anyone." We expect the industry to go through some profound consolidation," Feng said."It's

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Ernst Young Survey Finds Roughly 60% of Chinese Consumers Would Consider Purchasing a Plug-in Vehicle

Green Car Congress

Chinese consumers led in their consideration of a plug-in vehicle purchase. Battery driving range was the top concern about plug-ins (73%), followed by charging stations (69%); reliability and serviceability (64%); and safety (64%). 82% of respondents consider a range per charge of less than 200 miles to be acceptable.

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Tesla’s biggest rival in China: an in-depth look at the $4,200 Wuling HongGuang Mini EV

Teslarati

kWh battery and the other a 13.8 kWh battery. Capable of a 62 MPH top speed and only around 75 and 110 miles of range per charge, the vehicle’s base model is available for a respectable $4,200. The battery and some other basic parts that make up a car are really the only things that go under the body and chassis itself.

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I bought an electric chainsaw. Here’s what showed up (and how it worked)

Baua Electric

My dad has been looking at electric chainsaws for a while but hadn’t pulled the trigger on one, and so being the good son I am (especially since he lets me send weird Chinese electric vehicles to his property), I decided to buy one for him. After wrestling the saw free, re-tensioning the blade took about three seconds.