Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Chinese automaker aims to expand its global presence and sees Mexico as an excellent place to reach its goals. It opened facilities in Thailand this year and announced plans to build a production site in Hungary in the next three years. Tesla plans to build its next gigafactory in Nuevo León, Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

The blue highlighted structures are the new project buildings. —Milan Nedeljković The BMW Group has had a presence in the Chinese market since 1994 and founded the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture in May 2003. Rendering of the future high-voltage battery assembly in Shenyang. BBA is investing RMB 10 billion (US$1.4

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

SAIC is currently evaluating whether to build a factory in Europe. MG Motors, a unit of Chinese automaker SAIC, will open a second European parts centre by the summer of 2024 in France to meet the country’s growing demand for its vehicles, a spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Chinese automaker Chery is planning to make cars in Spain, where the EV market is at just 12%, half that of Portugal and France. Chinese companies MG, BYD, and Chery have also been scouting sites in Mexico and talking to officials for better access to the North American market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Total lithium-ion capacity existing or being built has doubled since the beginning of 2021, following announcements of new plants by Chinese and South Korean battery producers, according to Benchmark’s Gigafactory Assessment. LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7 trillion (US$1.4 LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While European automakers have been shifting over to direct sales à la Tesla, China’s BYD, for Build Your Dreams, along with Chinese peers Xpend and Great Wall Motor are looking to dealers to build sales and provide networks to help their brands build solid reputations and trust among Europeans.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe It was a huge year for profits at Chinese auto behemoth BYD. Of course, the Chinese EV market is booming – but looking at the numbers, it’s pretty staggering. Chinese automakers expect to have sold some 9.4 In 2023, the company sold 1.6 million vehicles. BYD tripled its profits to $1.5

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

BYD Atto 3 (Source: BYD) Europe and the US say that Chinese EV development is running wild and unchecked and on the verge of overwhelming the global market with, well, EVs the rest of the world can’t compete with. China last year overtook Japan as the world’s biggest car exporter ­– but most of those were ICE vehicles sold to Russia.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Let the “liberation battle” begin After declaring a “liberation battle” against gas-powered cars earlier this year, BYD, or Build Your Dreams, is putting pressure on overseas rivals. By building nearly all vehicle components, including batteries, in-house, BYD has a major advantage over rivals.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

After Europe, the international version of the EQB, produced in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be launched at the end of the year, followed by the US market launch in 2022. Ltd (BBAC), a joint venture between Daimler and its Chinese partner BAIC Group. Following the EQA 250 (combined electrical consumption: 15.7

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Chinese EV behemoth BYD may bring two off-road electric SUVs sold in China to Europe that could rival the Land Rover Defender, the Mercedes G-Class, and Ford Bronco. Last December, the automaker said it would build a factory in Hungary for the European market, with an initial capacity of 200,000 units a year.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Rumors started brewing about the future of the plant in two years ago, when Ford made the call to build its next-gen EVs in Spain and not reboot and retrain workers at Saarlouis. BYD was reported to be among the companies interested, but the Chinese automaker has since announced it is opening its first European plant in Hungary.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Climate-KIC CEO Mary Ritter and District Mayor Peng San of Tianjin City’s Hexi District formalized the agreement by signing a statement of intent in the Chinese capital’s Great Hall of the People, where the EU-China Summit was taking place.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Once up and running, BYD’s new plant in Thailand is expected to build 150,000 EVs a year. BYD Atto 3 production (Source: BYD) After beginning production at its Uzbekistan plant in January, BYD is building new facilities in Hungary and Brazil as it expands the brand overseas.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

South Korea’s SK On plans to start mass producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries as early as 2026 to supply several automakers as it pushes to deliver a lower cost battery chemistry favoured by its Chinese rivals, a senior executive said. We have to compete with the Chinese LFPs. Maybe it’s not easy,” he said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

The new Mercedes-Benz compacts are produced in a network of the Mercedes-Benz plants in Rastatt, Germany, and Kecskemét, Hungary. It furthermore plans to build premium compact cars for the Chinese markets locally and close to the customers in the future. The company has received more than 40,000 A-Class orders to date.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

Mercedes-Benz’ new compact car plant in China, housed at the company’s local production joint venture Beijing Benz Automotive Corporation (BBAC), has begun production with the German car maker’s first locally build compact car: the GLA. Built from scratch in less than 3 years and stretching at present across about 1.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Just a few months later the German-Chinese production joint venture, Beijing Benz Automotive Co. EQA production will also follow next year (2021) at BBAC in Beijing for the Chinese market. The work on the building has already been completed. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Building on the experience gained during the series production of electric vehicles at the location, the workforce is being prepared for the new models and further technological developments with comprehensive training programs. In 2016, more than 300,000 vehicles rolled off its production lines.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe After recently reducing prices of its refreshed Han and Tang models , Build Your Dreams (BYD) just launched a new version of its top-selling EV Yuan Plus – known as the Atto 3 in overseas markets – to $16,644 in China, making it one of the lowest-priced EVs out there.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Just over a week after initially teasing a new compact SUV called the Yuan Up, Build Your Dreams (BYD) has posted several of the first official images of the new EV’s exterior. The auto conglomerate knows it has an image problem in Europe and North America and is trying to shift the narrative by exporting more enticing models to new markets.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

We EV pundits have been writing about the rise of the Chinese EV industry for years. In recent weeks, the mainstream press has picked up on the story—many articles describe the coming wave of Chinese exports in apocalyptic terms. A recent headline in the New York Times warned of a “wrecking ball” heading for Detroit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. David Sokol is a student of management—he wrote a little book on the subject called “Pleased But Not Satisfied”—and he was impressed with Mr. Wang’s thoughtful and purposeful approach to building his company.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The US has imposed extra tariffs on Chinese EVs since 2019, with US officials having long warned that China poses a threat in data security, and the new measure could have broad implications across a number of industries, the report said. Meanwhile, the Chinese military steers clear of Tesla vehicles for the same reasons.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Germany and Hungary will increase their battery manufacturing capability to match Poland, as cell and component plants come online in coming years. European countries such as Czechia, Hungary and Poland, continue to have advantages in their ability to provide cleaner and more sustainable supply chains.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold.

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