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Below $30,000! MG 2 coming in 2025 to shatter electric car price barrier

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Chinese-owned MG is hatching a cheaper sibling to its current all-electric MG 4 that will share tech but be priced from less than €20,000 ($33,000) when it makes its debut in 2025. When it lands, expect a battery size of around 44kWh that should provide for a range of more than 320km for the cheapest versions.

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Alibaba’s One Wheeled Magic! Single Wheeled Electric Motor Cycle

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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. The Design.

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OneD, Koch Modular partner to scale up silicon-graphite EV anode materials – ET Auto

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General Motors is a OneD investor and customer. conglomerate Koch Industries, will design and build a silane gas plant to remove impurities from silicon for the factory where OneD will combine it with graphite to make silicon anode materials. The company says the process also saves money for automakers seeking affordable EV models.

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Special 2024 MG 4 XPower review: Brand’s first homegrown hero scores local upgrades that deliver China’s most scorching electric hot hatch

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But it is considered a proof of concept, designed to gauge interest and demand for locally improved models from the Chinese brand. Like the regular Xpower, you’re still using a dual-motor powertrain that delivers 300kW/600Nm, and which promises to clip 100km/h in less than four seconds. Score: 3.5/5

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2025 Hyundai Inster review: the $40k city SUV challenge to the MG4, GWM Ora and BYD Dolphin

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Hopefully they’ll squeeze it in for less to properly challenge the Chinese cheapies, who this year have been busy price war squabbling. Inster seats are spongey soft, but doors are eco cheap feeling in places. Design’s subjective, but the more I lived with the Inster, the more its looks grew on me. seconds / 10.6

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BYD’s luxury brand unveils its first sedan, the sleek U7, with over 1,000 horsepower

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But it won’t be cheap. According to a report from Chinese research firm CarFans , the electric SUV scored over 8,000 orders in its first three days on the market. The sedan’s design takes from the U9 with an added “family style” language. It will likely feature four electric motors, like the U8 and U9, to reach over 1,000 hp.

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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

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But whatever it’s called, these three-wheeled taxis have used their half-bike, half-wagon design to shuttle folks around cities for decades. And now, a new era of rickshaws is seeing electric drives enabling interesting new designs. For power, we’ve got a rear axle-mounted 1,000W motor supplied by a 48V battery.

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