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Report: Toyota to make hybrid car parts in China to boost sales

Green Car Congress

The BBC reports that Toyota is planning to manufacture key components for its hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time. However, China, which produces more than 95% of the world’s rare earth supplies, has imposed strict production and export quotas on these elements, citing environmental concerns.

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Self-driving vehicles may hit UK roads as soon as 2026: minister

Teslarati

. “Probably by as early as 2026 people will start seeing some elements of these cars that have full self-driving capabilities being rolled out,” Harper said in an interview with BBC Radio. “It’ll be gradual…so there’ll be companies rolling it out to be used in certain places.”

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

He himself was in the market for one. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. One of the reasons for the upward swing in paid subscribers has been the buoyant share market. Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More often than not, the “recycling&# of NiMH or lithium-ion batteries involves shipping them off to places like China, where their fate is truly unknown. From renewable energy policy to carbon markets to dubious eco-advertising, our energy and environment reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe.

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