Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry
InsideEVs
APRIL 29, 2024
Many EV buyers would buy a Chinese car if it was cheap enough, according to a recent survey.
Mexico Won't Offer EV Incentives to Chinese Automakers
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 18, 2024
Chinese automakers are expanding into Mexico, with companies like BYD opening dealerships across the country. Automotive News reported that the country would not offer tax incentives or land discounts to Chinese automakers. Mexico is no stranger to Chinese auto companies, as there are around 20 already selling vehicles in the country.
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This $680 4-seater electric swan boat makes my own Chinese e-boat look luxurious
Electrek
MARCH 30, 2024
But after buying an ultra-cheap Chinese electric boat last year , this new one makes my own lazy lake cruiser look like a luxury yacht. I’m no stranger to collecting weird Alibaba electric vehicles, and that includes aquatic vessels.
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The BYD Atto 3 and MG4 are great, but there is one cheap Chinese electric vehicle that’s not quite there yet…. Opinion
EV Central
AUGUST 11, 2023
READ MORE: The electric year ahead: Every EV coming to Australia in 2023 READ MORE: Complete guide to rebates, discounts and incentives when buying an EV in Australia Today, of course, an EV can deliver 100 per cent of its torque from zero rpm, which should, and can, prove a challenge for any set of tyres.
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Weird Alibaba: This $3,200 electric truck might be the next Chinese EV I need to buy
Electrek
AUGUST 13, 2022
And this week we’ve landed on another doozy for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week entry: A cheap electric dump truck. The post Weird Alibaba: This $3,200 electric truck might be the next Chinese EV I need to buy appeared first on Electrek.
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Comment on Nio allows Chinese owners of cars purchased on its BaaS model to buy out battery by Kuba
CN EV Post
JANUARY 2, 2024
I live in China 10 years, in Shenyang and now Foshan:) Gas is super cheap in China around 7-8rmb per liter. I'd buy EV for fun driving but not for "saving money" ? I have Toyota and it never breaks down, it depreciated 30k rmb in 5 years.
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Race to break the $30K barrier: Volkswagen will launch ID.1 budget-buy in 2027
EV Central
MARCH 25, 2024
The iD1 is designed to help the German brand fight off the invasion of cheap Chinese imports such as the MG2 and rival European cars like the incoming Renault Twingo and the Dacia Spring EV that’s already on sale. 1 budget-buy in 2027 appeared first on EV Central. READ MORE: Baby Volkswagen ID.2-based
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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.
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This $680 4-seater electric swan boat makes my own Chinese e-boat look luxurious
Baua Electric
MARCH 30, 2024
But after buying an ultra-cheap Chinese electric boat last year , this new one makes my own lazy lake cruiser look like a luxury yacht. The post This $680 4-seater electric swan boat makes my own Chinese e-boat look luxurious appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.
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Trade group asks administration to reinstate tariffs on Chinese graphite, critical material for EV batteries
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Now, demand for anode material is expected to surge as the US battery manufacturing market grows, and the Buy American provisions of the IRA and BIL call for manufacturers to use increasing proportions of domestically-produced raw materials. In response, companies are rushing to establish domestic graphite production and processing.
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GlobalData: Russian nickel sanctions would slow electric vehicle adoption
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2022
EV and battery companies in China may well step in and buy the commodity at lower prices. China already has a strong position in the battery metal supply chain, and buying Russian nickel on the cheap as a result of sanctions would further strengthen its globally competitive position.
China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more
Baua Electric
APRIL 11, 2024
Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. Yet, the current state of affairs is rapidly changing, with Chinese companies putting 47 ships on order, which accounts for a quarter of all orders globally.
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BYD overtakes VW’s 15-year-run as top seller in China
Baua Electric
JANUARY 23, 2024
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 Still, the German legacy brand has long held a lot of clout in China, but this new data shows that Chinese consumers are happy to buy cheap, high-tech homegrown EVs these days.
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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
My favorite part of this vehicle is just how cheap it is – a mere $592! Second, and more importantly, that’s the price when buying 100 units, which is the minimum order quantity of the Chinese factory that makes this lovable little runabout. I’ve got my hands full with a few containers of Chinese EVs as it is.
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How to become a lifestyle brand on the cheap, or the China EV startup dilemma
China EV
OCTOBER 2, 2019
But state funds can’t be invested in loss-making enterprises, so it seems the aid will likely take the form of a loan to buy land in Beijing on which to build a plant. The question is, how to make a car seem like something as important to Chinese consumers as the next mobile phone. Chicken and egg scenario.
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Ghosn: Renault-Nissan needs both high- and low-spec EVs to be player in China market; ongoing importance of gov’t support
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2016
We think that in order to be a big player in the Chinese market we need both offers—high spec, low spec, higher price, lower price—because I believe that the support that the Chinese government is giving to electric cars is going to continue and it’s going to be stronger. —Carlos Ghosn. —Carlos Ghosn.
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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2015
The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. On the other hand, it won’t be easy for Saudi Arabia—Chinese refiners are also producing more gasoline, for which demand is still strong. Indian refiners are now buying more crude oil from Nigeria, Iraq, Venezuela and Mexico.
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Alibaba’s One Wheeled Magic! Single Wheeled Electric Motor Cycle
Get Electric Vehicle
APRIL 9, 2021
In this article, we are going to discuss another impressive aspect of electric vehicles that is ‘ The flexibility an electric vehicle offers in design ’ and one of its weird manifestation The ‘One wheeled electric bike’ by Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba. The flexibility an EV offers while designing. Conclusion. You may also like.
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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
You might not know it to look at them, but these two cars—one Swedish, one Chinese—share underpinnings and a parent company. Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery.
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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on
EV Central
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
We bleated away like blind sheep, buying Ford EcoSports at twice the rate we did Souls in 2019, the last year it was sold in Australia. Kia Australia would have had to bring it in a fair bit less than that to compete with the current crop of Chinese electric cheapies.
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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | 2022
Plug In India
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
By Team PluginIndia We often get so many queries, from all of you about buying a high speed electric scooter. In this blog/video we will talk about the performance electric scooters you can buy now in 2022. They offer financial incentives to customers who buy EV’s. Especially those who want no compromises.
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Mad Power thoughts
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Gas is the only answer.
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CRU: Lithium prices plunging as hype meets reality; impact of new supply, disappointing BEV sales
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Weaker-than-expected demand in China is partly responsible, but the main driver has been the ongoing avalanche of new supply into the market, as plentiful cheap spodumene meets ample conversional capacity in China, the CRU analysts said. Chinese EV sales through to July totalled 696,000 this year, an impressive 41.5%
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BYD has no plans to enter the US Market amid “complications’ [Feature]
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
BYD Executive Vice President and CEO of BYD Americas sat down with Yahoo Finance , and talked about the Chinese automaker’s lack of presence in the US Market and the global electric vehicle (EV) market. I just can’t emphasize this enough: that the vast majority of people buying a car is about the monthly payment.
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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs
Cars That Think
JANUARY 23, 2023
With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year
EV Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
To continue the earlier theme, I’m looking forward to driving three new Chinese EV entries to the Australian market, all of them potentially offering outstanding value for money. If it wasn’t so stupidly expensive (around $100K, at least), I’d buy one. The EV I’m most looking forward to in 2023. Biggest EV surprise of 2022.
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How far can your EV travel? We rank the driving range of every electric vehicle in Australia
EV Central
MARCH 22, 2023
Whether you’re buying a Tesla Model Y , Hyundai Ioniq 5 , Kia EV6 or MG ZS EV , one of the first questions most people have regards the length of the driving range. Not cheap, but a 95kWh battery, 446km range and 150kW DC fast charging are wins. So just how far can you travel between charges? kWh battery for solid range.
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Rajiv Bajaj's Chetak has a New Factory & Sad State of Auto Media
Plug In India
AUGUST 21, 2022
The Ex-Showroom price of the Chetak to set at a whopping Rs 1,94,061 FAME 2 subsidy of Rs 43,500 In states like MH, you get a state subsidy of Rs 10,000 The onroad price is Rs 147,064 which is not cheap. They then remove those Chinese components from the scooter and add components from Indian Vendors.
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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | Mid 2021
Plug In India
JUNE 11, 2021
By Team PluginIndia We often get so many queries, from all of you about buying a high speed electric scooter. In this blog/video we will talk about the performance electric scooters you can buy now in mid 2021. The design is a classic Vespa knockoff that seems to come from the parent Chinese company.
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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?
Cars That Think
APRIL 9, 2022
To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. Could enough space heaters be produced in the limited time available before next winter?
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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?
Get Electric Vehicle
OCTOBER 27, 2023
If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.
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40 ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 17, 2009
And if you dont see them, you dont want to buy them. And they will probably come from China, if we do not start creating a really dutch alternative, cheap, simple, ultra lightweight and modularized. Because this scenario is already being played, probably in some Japanese and Chinese town ARE WE READY, Minds in Motion?
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Forget the MG4, BYD Dolphin and GWM Ora, buy a $40k Mazda MX-30 EV instead | Opinion
EV Central
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
I think you should buy a Mazda MX-30 Electric … and I’ve not even been drinking. You know, the small SUV we panned at its July 2021 launch for its “poor value proposition” Our review , in short, suggested you’d be almost out of your mind to buy one. A challenge to Chinese cheapies Head to carsales.com.au
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China and the Electric Car | Autos | Smart Spending | Mainstreet
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
In addition, Nissan (Stock Quote: NSANY ) and its French partner Renault signed an agreement with the Chinese government to develop electric cars and a network of battery charging stations in Wuhan, China. How to Buy it Cheap Treasury Launches Auto Supply Program Would You Drive GM's PUMA? automakers in their own market.
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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009
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. More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US
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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Small size. New technology. An (expected) high price tag. A troubled company.
Buffett's Chinese electric car company
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. That track record—and that potential—is what persuaded Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to buy 10% of BYD last fall for $230 million. This could turn out to be one of Buffett’s very best deals.
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The right way to get oil-rich West Asia to pressure electrical vehicles? Chinese language EV makers contemplate
Baua Electric
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
With EV call for slowing at house, and firms dealing with considerable import price lists in america in addition to a Ecu Union probe into Chinese language subsidies, automakers view the patch as a big enlargement alternative that, thus far, is in large part untapped. of the passenger-vehicle marketplace. Chery Car Co.
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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. — Jeff U 6.
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58 Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 20, 2009
The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy. Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work.
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