Electrek
SEPTEMBER 2, 2023
One of the cool things about window shopping through China’s largest online mall is that you find some weirdly cheap yet impressive-looking things. And that’s exactly what we’ve got in store for this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column.
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. KARAOKE IN YOUR MERCEDES In a race to stand out, some Chinese brands are offering features intended to be fun, if not frivolous.
China EV
OCTOBER 2, 2019
The question is, how to make a car seem like something as important to Chinese consumers as the next mobile phone. And NIO chose some pricey though prestigious areas such as the Nanjing Lu area in Shanghai, to open its stores. Next to a Tesla store, let me add. Tesla store in Xintiandi, Shanghai.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.
Plug In India
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
You might not know it to look at them, but these two cars—one Swedish, one Chinese—share underpinnings and a parent company. Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2015
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). gallons of ethanol to get you as far as a gallon of gas.
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