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Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more

Electrek

This time that includes new electric bikes from the consumer electronics brand RCA, a new electric trike from Lectric eBikes, Honda revealed its E-Cub for the Chinese market, a high power hubless wheel electric motorcycle, low-cost electric boats with a Mercury electric outboard motor and lots more.

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The Wild World Of Chinese Mini EVs

CleanTechnica EVs

I love electric vehicles, but they’re sure not cheap. For many people, a clean used EV is all that they can afford, and that usually costs almost as much as the cheapest new gas-powered cars. Understandably, this keeps many people with low incomes out of the EV game, and it keeps many people globally (who […].

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

Plug In India

In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. CATL, the Chinese battery behemoth has claimed to have reached that. The world needs to do something about this.

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

Get Electric Vehicle

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. Alibaba’s one wheeled motorcycle [ Reference ].

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Rajiv Bajaj's Chetak has a New Factory & Sad State of Auto Media

Plug In India

Essentially Bajaj are artificially keeping Chetak production numbers low thus raising less awareness of EV’s so that he can delay the EV movement, which in turn ensures his ICE motorcycle business is not affected. They then remove those Chinese components from the scooter and add components from Indian Vendors.

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NIU’s newest electric scooters arrive at EICMA 2021

Green Authority

It’s day one of the EICMA 2021 motorcycle show in Milan, and new NIU electric scooters are making their debut. Founded in 2016 and going public on NASDAQ in 2018, NIU Technologies is a Chinese smart electric scooter manufacturer and current industry leader. RQi Sport electric motorcycle. The RQi Sport first appeared at CES 2020.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | Mid 2021

Plug In India

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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