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Unutilized Texas partnership buys Stellantis, GM and Kia dealerships

Baua Electric

A veteran automobile retail govt has teamed up with a identified Kia dealership supervisor to shop for their first retail outlets: 3 franchised dealerships, plus a used-car bundle, in rural Texas. shaped a partnership in February with Kimberly Eakin, normal supervisor of Dennis Eakin Kia in Killeen, Texas. Kramer stated. Kramer stated.

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On the horizon with EV News 

Electric Auto Association

Zero Not just motorcycles anymore The Trident, Zero Electric Vehicles’ first automobile, became closer to reality with the introduction of the company’s rolling electric chassis. Canadian firm Li-Cycle announced the building of a lithium-ion recycling plant. Chinese EVs Exploding out of Asia China, which manufactures 2.5 Zero Trident.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

More mainstream models will come from Kia, Mahindra, Škoda, and Volkswagen. Electric motorcycles breakout. Sales of e-motorcycles have been increasing, but the market remains a tiny fraction of the e-bicycle and e-scooter market (5.2 Nonetheless, 2014 may be a breakout year for e-motorcycles.

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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Car Wars Han Feizi, writing in Asia Times , offers a colorful assessment of the current EV scene in China, which he compares to the notorious Japanese “motorcycle wars.” In the 1950s, over 100 companies in Japan started making motorcycles, sparking a “wild, untamed, often unscrupulous and dazzlingly innovative” melee. Hard to imagine?

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VW Joke, Kia EV6 Details – EV Week in Review: March 23-30

EV Adoption

This past week not only had the usual automaker electrification declarations and teases of EVs to come such as the Kia EV6 and Lexus LF-Z concept EV, but we had a huge April Fools’ joke from Volkswagen. Automakers and Models. The EV6, will come with two battery pack options, a 58 kWh pack or a 77.4 – March 30, via Green Car Reports.

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