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.
Twingo is GO! Cheap $33k Renault Twingo EV is back on with help from a mysterious Chinese player
EV Central
JUNE 4, 2024
Just days after Volkswagen said it would go it alone and produce its cheap €20,000 ($A32,500) EV without any help, Renault has announced that it has already found a new Chinese partner to help it create its low-cost Renault Twingo. The post Twingo is GO!
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Biden's New 100% Tariff On Chinese EVs Shuts Out Cheap Imports
InsideEVs
MAY 14, 2024
The Biden Administration hit back hard today on China's EV industry. But will the tariffs protect automakers, or make them more complacent?
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Auto Industry Begs U.S. To Block 'Cheap' Chinese EV Imports From Mexico
InsideEVs
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Plus: what's next in the EV race from Jeep, and how Rivian can cross "the valley of death."
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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry
Teslarati
MARCH 24, 2024
Although competitive Chinese automaker BYD isn’t yet slated to enter the U.S. Even despite ongoing political concerns, its entry into North America is considered an eventuality, and other Chinese automakers likely won’t be far behind. auto industry appeared first on TESLARATI. auto sector,” the organization writes.
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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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BYD Europe aims to beat Tesla & big EU automakers
Teslarati
MAY 10, 2024
The Chinese automaker plans to use an aggressive marketing strategy to accomplish its goal. BYD has no plans to enter the US Market amid “complications’ [Feature] BYD Europe’s goals come at a time when the EU is wary of cheap Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). It also plans to partner with European dealerships.
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China issues draft guidelines to rein in lithium battery industry – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 9, 2024
China has released draft guidelines aimed at reining in the country’s lithium battery industry , which has been in Western crosshairs over fears subsidised overproduction could flood global markets with cut-price exports.
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MAN propane-fueled ME-LGIP to power Chinese VLGC
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company.
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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs
Baua Electric
MARCH 6, 2024
Possible “remedies” on the table include retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs. Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union.
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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.
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Biden rumored to announce quadrupling of tariffs on Chinese EVs, up to 100%
Baua Electric
MAY 10, 2024
The US government is reportedly set to announce wider tariffs on several categories of Chinese goods, including various green products like solar panels and batteries, medical goods, and in particular an increase of tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%. Photo is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
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Trade group asks administration to reinstate tariffs on Chinese graphite, critical material for EV batteries
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
NAGA believes intervention from the federal government is necessary to protect North America’s nascent graphite industry. According to NAGA, China’s graphite supply surpasses global demand, allowing it to flood markets with cheap graphite and manipulate prices. The concerns go beyond mere supply shortages.
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Volkswagen plans cheaper battery model ‘from Europe for Europe’ – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 28, 2024
Cheaper Chinese models are not just a concern for Europe’s biggest auto manufacturer, but for European officials. Brussels last year angered Beijing after launching an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric cars that would represent unfair competition to domestic European manufacturers.
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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
China’s dominance of the industry is to be expected given its huge investments and the policies the country has implemented over the past decade. Chinese manufacturers, like CATL, have come from nothing to being world-leading in less than 10 years. These factors may be more important than a monopoly on one specific critical metal.
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Sodium-Ion Powered EVs Roll off From Chinese EV Factories
Get Electric Vehicle
JANUARY 24, 2024
It is one of the oddest combinations in the car manufacturing industry as the other half of JAG is owned by the Chinese government. Another Sodium-ion Powered EV From China Chinese car manufacturer JMEV rolled off their sodium-Ion battery-provided EV on December 28, 2023.
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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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China’s sweeping new e-bike battery rules could have a major impact in US
Baua Electric
MAY 13, 2024
NYC is often seen as the epicenter of e-bike battery fires due largely to the large population of e-bike delivery riders and the low-quality Chinese batteries used on such bikes. In fact, some major Chinese manufacturers alone produce tens of millions of e-bikes and e-scooters each year.
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Slowing EV uptake may delay Panasonic’s EV battery expansion, says CEO – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 21, 2024
Panasonic, whose energy unit makes batteries for Tesla , is closely watching its Chinese supply chain and battery material procurement following China’s move last year to tighten graphite export controls, Yuki Kusumi said. A slowdown in the take-up of electric vehicles in the U.S.
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OneD, Koch Modular partner to scale up silicon-graphite EV anode materials – ET Auto
Baua Electric
JANUARY 17, 2024
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. Koch Modular, minority-owned by U.S. production uneconomical, Koch Modular president George Schlowsky told Reuters. .
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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way
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’s EV industry is a true powerhouse, and one of the few economic bright spots for the country, reports the FT.
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World’s largest solar panel maker to slash thousands of jobs
Baua Electric
MARCH 18, 2024
Cheap Chinese solar panels are also making it hard for European and US solar panel makers to compete. Meanwhile, cheap solar panels are driving demand, and new installations are booming globally. In response, solar companies are consolidating, and bankruptcies may be on the horizon. The US added a record-setting 32.4
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Battle for ‘tech luxury’ in China as EVs get smarter – and cheaper – ET Auto
Baua Electric
APRIL 25, 2024
But other Chinese automakers, including state-run companies that were later entrants to the EV race, have closed the gap on sub-USD 10,000 EVs at the Beijing auto show that began Thursday. Last year, BYD shocked the automotive industry with the release of its Seagull EV, now priced under USD 10,000, at the Shanghai auto show.
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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto
Baua Electric
APRIL 26, 2024
Huawei Technologies has two huge booths at this week’s event, and there are at least seven Chinese automakers touting its Qiankun installed in their cars as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date. ” said Evangelos Simoudis, an investor and corporate adviser.
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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps
Baua Electric
MAY 7, 2024
Photo: Shenzhen Government Online Shenzhen, the home of Chinese EV giant BYD, says it’s become the first in China to have more supercharging plugs than gas pumps. So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city?
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Tesla China to launch Powerwall batteries and residential solar for domestic market
Teslarati
JUNE 22, 2021
While Gigafactory Shanghai has been producing electric vehicles for the local Chinese market for over a year now, Tesla China’s operations have so far been focused on the company’s electric car business.
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Tesla is redefining the “Made in China” moniker with Giga Shanghai: report
Teslarati
OCTOBER 19, 2021
” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. It comments positively by saying Tesla accelerates transformation of entire auto industry & how it redefines MIC as high-quality prod in foreign markets.
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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023
Cars That Think
APRIL 8, 2023
Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. Industry, not academia, is drawing new AI Ph.D.’s s went to industry, compared with 28.2 percent of all AI Ph.D.’s In the U.S.,
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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!
Plug In India
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap.
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59 Lux: graphene severely underperforming commercially against “massive hype”
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2015
Total global graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) capacity has increased from 120 tons/yr in 2012 to 910 tons/yr today, driven largely by aggressive Chinese capacity expansions such as by Ningbo Morsh (300 tons/yr), and Xiamen Knano (100 tons/yr). However, current GNP demand has yet to exceed 15% of the current supply. Lux suggested.
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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 9, 2011
When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was unrecognized by the US, literally, and dark in a way difficult to imagine now. Plug-in cars from a half dozen Chinese automakers were on display along with charge stations in an attractive setting amidst a winding course for test drives. China is electrifying.
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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp.
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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. The Design.
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India stays No. 3 spot in global car sales but Japan fast closing the gap | Autocar Professional
Baua Electric
JANUARY 15, 2024
With its growing and young population, economic growth and rising motorisation levels India has seen a steady growth in its passenger vehicle (PV) industry in the last three decades. According to S&P Global Mobility’s output forecast for India, the share of the country in the global industry volumes will increase to almost 8 percent.
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China gave BYD an incredible $3.7 billion to ‘win’ the EV race
Baua Electric
APRIL 12, 2024
BYD received this lofty sum in direct government subsidies as part of the Chinese government’s push to lead the world in EVs and other clean tech, according to a new study first reported by Bloomberg. billion, according to a new German study. billion only two years later.
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Mad Power thoughts
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Ministers decided they would rather throw hundreds of Northern workers out of a job, turn down hundreds of millions of pounds of investment and rely instead – for the five million tonnes of coal per year gap that we still need for industry – on energy imports from those famously reliable partners, Russia and Venezuela. Gas is the only answer.
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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | 2022
Plug In India
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
We feel that this scheme is a very progressive scheme from the government and has really propelled the EV industry in the right direction. Benling India - Aura So the parent company is a large Chinese electric scooter company called - Dongguan Benling Vehicle Technology Co. Watch the video for more.
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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
While China remains, for now, the world’s leading magnesium producer, alternative green technology-driven projects elsewhere are attracting attention as the industry in general looks to reduce its carbon footprint, and even China starts to close inefficient capacities, according to Roskill Information Services.
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China’s EV brands are coming to bury US automakers—or are they? – Charged EVs
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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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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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 29, 2023
The only problem is—that stride is a bit less impressive than the telecom industry may have hoped for. How 5G’s sluggish start impacts the research directions that the industry prioritizes for 6G and beyond. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On? iStock 2023 is probably the year in which 5G really hit its stride.
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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
Atulji's answers that question in the video :) Benling India - Aura So the parent company is a large Chinese electric scooter company called - Dongguan Benling Vehicle Technology Co. The design is a classic Vespa knockoff that seems to come from the parent Chinese company. Benling India offers one high speed model - Aura.
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