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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

Setec Powerr

Europe, the birthplace of the automobile industry, to North America across the Pacific Ocean, has always been the top stage that Chinese car companies hope to step on. With the current sales figures and the seductive future expectations, Southeast Asia has successfully attracted the attention of Chinese car companies.

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China’s CBL to invest $420 million in Indonesian nickel mining and EV battery manufacturing – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Chinese EV battery company Ningbo Contemporary Brunp Lygend (CBL) has agreed to invest $420 million in Indonesia’s nickel mining and EV battery manufacturing industries. CBL is a consortium and a subsidiary of China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL). It’s been signed.

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Benelli has unveiled new electric scooter ‘Dong’

Electric Vehicles India

It has been recently launched in Indonesia. Benelli Dong is a lightweight electric scooter that is small, quirky and funky to look at moreover its design is unique and it is certainly been developed using the know-how from the Chinese side of the operation. It is likely to make its way also to the European and US markets.

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Electric Car Watch #11: Hyundai's Electric Car Plans for India

Plug In India

Throw in Chinese electric car companies like BYD, MG Motors, Great Wall and others, and Hyundai India has some serious competition. The electronics support both 400 V and 800 V charging and bidirectional charging. The platform can support fast charging upto 200 kW. billion electric vehicle battery plant in Indonesia.

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LGES signs battery supply agreement with Chinese supplier

Teslarati

LG Energy Solution (LGES) signed a battery supply agreement with Chinese supplier Changzhou Liyuan New Energy Technology. The Chinese supplier also has facilities in Indonesia with a production capacity of 30,000 tons of LFT cathode materials. LGES started producing LFP batteries of EES in Chinese at the end of 2023.

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Tesla’s next Gigafactory location unknown, but all signs point toward India

Teslarati

While there have been rumors of deep talks in Spain , numerous meetings with French government officials, and heavy speculation regarding a relationship with Canada, Indonesia, and South Korea, it is becoming overwhelmingly clear that all signs are pointing toward India, a location where Tesla has mulled a factory for several years.

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

The Truth About Cars

The company has a focus on software and plans to double the number of hires already planned and will add an executive to be in charge of user experience. That includes the launch of the EM1e, an electric scooter with a swappable battery, in Indonesia, Europe, and Japan before the end of this year. One will be an SUV.

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