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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

Teslarati

market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. BYD launched its Seagull, a small hatchback EV with a price tag starting at 69,800 yuan (~$9,773), at the Shanghai Auto Show last year. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!" Businesses are looking to attract customers and show their green side, and government is seeking the emissions reduction benefit of plug-ins. Creating an new industry that converts cheap electricity into a monetized charge session is not necessarily the best way forward.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

God knows what the Brit government does with all those pennies and pounds, but they sure as hell don’t throw enough cash at the road system. That said, it wouldn’t have been far off the Hyundai Kona EV’s tag. It will go on sale sooner than the larger Kia EV5 , which was revealed in production form at the same event.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

The “4 Degrees And Beyond” conference was the second synthesis conference on climate change sponsored by the UK government in the present decade. Quipping “We’re stuck”, Pershing forecast that world governments would instead have to adopt aggressive climate adaptation strategies. [ Madame President, this is not an ego trip for me.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. government is going to help U.S. car companies and battery makers as much as the Chinese government is going to help BYD. BYD is an amazing company.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state. 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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