EV Central

MARCH 17, 2024

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. In-car tech should match the larger MG 3 with a seven-inch digital instrument cluster combined with a large 10.25-inch Can the MG 2 go under $30,000?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Of course, the Chinese EV market is booming – but looking at the numbers, it’s pretty staggering. Chinese automakers expect to have sold some 9.4 Still, the German legacy brand has long held a lot of clout in China, but this new data shows that Chinese consumers are happy to buy cheap, high-tech homegrown EVs these days.

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Push EVs

JULY 12, 2022

Chinese media is reporting that CATL will mass produce lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP or LFMP) batteries already this year, on track with the company’s roadmap. Anyway, some battery cell makers such as BYD, Gotion High-Tech, Sunwoda and Eve Energy are also testing LMFP batteries and providing sample units to automakers.

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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 last year overtook Japan as the world’s biggest car exporter ­– but most of those were ICE vehicles sold to Russia.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With a forecasted 30% cost reduction by 2030 as cheaper Chinese turbines gain market share, Australia and Southeast Asia stand to benefit from low-cost wind power equipment imports. Falling capital costs and tech improvements are opening up new markets for offshore wind in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia over the next five to 10 years.

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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.

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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. Tan had filed a patent application for his invention a month before the 2000 CeBIT tech fair, but a pending patent did little to stop copycats.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

China has been heavily subsidizing its green tech sectors, but homegrown EV company BYD is a favorite child of the bunch, receiving enormous subsidies to the tune of at least $3.7 Of course, even the study’s author say that the rapid adoption of green tech in Europe in particular is due in large part to cheap goods coming from China.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The B2 (a cousin to the B1 wagon) hasn’t been completely killed off and in 2023 the company said “engineers are once again working on developing the SUV and pickup” The B2 wasn’t looking like being cheap despite the simplicity of its aluminium body. The Ford Bronco is also expected to feature this tech.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The handling vs comfort balance has been well applied by Kia’s chassis techs, so highway cruising’s quite cushy, aside from some marked road noise. Kia Australia would have had to bring it in a fair bit less than that to compete with the current crop of Chinese electric cheapies. Bit of body roll due to its loftiness, mind.

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EV Central

JANUARY 3, 2023

A majority of the EVcentral writing staff acknowledged the compact Chinese battery electric vehicle for one positive reason or another. No new electric vehicle sold in Australia is cheap, but the BYD Atto 3 is definitely among the most affordable. The BYD Atto 3 comes as two models; Standard and Extended range. BYD Atto 3.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

​ 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. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To continue the earlier theme, I’m looking forward to driving three new Chinese EV entries to the Australian market, all of them potentially offering outstanding value for money. For the money, the drive experience (bar the handling), its features, tech, style and overall presentation surpassed my quite low expectations.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. Was originally due late in 2021 but that’s been pushed back until late 2022. Audi RS e-Tron GT.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Secret Service claims to be able to identify an individual from a voice-only line-up, and Chinese courts have taken voiceprints into account in hundreds of judgments already. That would require reversing the trend by tech companies to turn their platforms, services, and apps into walled gardens.

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EV Central

JANUARY 6, 2024

Known as the Lightning Cat overseas, the sleek five-door from Chinese maker GWM is yet to be definitively confirmed for Australia. There will be single-motor front-drive and dual-motor all-wheel drive models available and a lengthy list of tech that includes remote connectivity and dual 12.3-inch GWM Ora Sport GWM Ora Sport.

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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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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Founded in 2016 and going public on NASDAQ in 2018, NIU Technologies is a Chinese smart electric scooter manufacturer and current industry leader. NIU has a smartphone app that will integrate with the BQi, allowing it to access additional smart security and tech features. Read more: The best cheap electric mopeds.

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EV Central

JANUARY 2, 2023

It won’t be cheap, but Audi’s e-Tron GT and its more potent RS e-Tron GT sibling promise big performance. It’s all about tech and trinkets in the electric version of the 7-Series limousine. But it’s the tech and comfort inside that could be a drawcard for the i7. Renault Megane e-Tech. Renault Megane E-Tech.

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EV Central

AUGUST 19, 2023

If you furnish a car with fancy materials, features and tech so it looks the goods on the website and in the showroom, many gullible folk are blinded by the glitter and sign on the dotted line without even test driving. Seres is a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant Dongfeng, and the Seres 3 has sold in China as the Fengon E3 since 2019.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year. tech industry during the 1990s. The deal, which is awaiting final approval from the Chinese government, didnt get much notice at the time.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Well need to spend some more time with the car to find out how it holds up over longer drives, but the powertrain tech obviously works. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Still, for all the faults, this is a very promising vehicle. to decide if we ever get to see these promises fulfilled.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. Even in the Chinese market where smaller EV sales are booming, profits are not. Buying a new car is the second most expensive purchase a consumer makes behind buying a house.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

But if you care about saving money on the front end of your purchase, the Polestar 2 is not a cheap vehicle — as equipped, my test car was over €62,000 (options included napa leather, premium tech and stereo, and driver assistance packs). More concerning to me than any of the above is that the Polestar 2’s tech stack isn’t aging well.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The EX90 is set for production in Volvo’s American factory next year, with later production commencing at its Chinese plant. They’re not going to be cheap. Phone key tech means your smartphone serves as your car key, automatically unlocking the car and applying personal driving profiles. Next level safety included.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Laser tech is still far from performing such a feat. Why are we getting ray guns only now, more than a century after H.G. Wells imagined them in his sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds ?

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