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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

I live in China 10 years, in Shenyang and now Foshan:) Gas is super cheap in China around 7-8rmb per liter. @DORAMAS In reply to DORAMAS. I have Toyota and it never breaks down, it depreciated 30k rmb in 5 years. If you check second hand EV like hiphi depreciated 200k in 2 years, nio et5 is selling for 170k with just 20k km.

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Tesla maintains an Outperform rating by Wedbush as Q1 2024 ends

Teslarati

Economist says cheap Chinese EVs should be kept out of U.S. due to security risk Wedbush acknowledged the price competition with the Chinese auto market but predicts aggressive price reductions will start to die down by spring or summer 2024. The Chinese electric vehicle market has been steadily increasing.

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This $680 4-seater electric swan boat makes my own Chinese e-boat look luxurious

Baua Electric

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. In fact, as usual, I recommend that nobody make any requests, including any purchase inquiries. I’m no stranger to collecting weird Alibaba electric vehicles, and that includes aquatic vessels.

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Volkswagen sues car dealer for importing ID.6 EV to Germany

Teslarati

6 EV is produced in China by the FAW-VW joint venture and is meant to be sold exclusively in the Chinese car market. The Chinese vehicle registration states that the vehicles Brudny purchased were intended for export and technically adapted to meet the Federal Motor Transport Authority’s requirements. Brudny bought 22 ID.6

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How to become a lifestyle brand on the cheap, or the China EV startup dilemma

China EV

Not unexpected given the central government phased out purchase subsidies faster than initially planned. The question is, how to make a car seem like something as important to Chinese consumers as the next mobile phone. Why would it do this? NIO tried/is trying to do that with its NIO houses, lifestyle products, etc.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. But suppose your new car is up to current Chinese standards (~35 mpg). At that price, California miles are 16 cents each.

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