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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way

Baua Electric

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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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. These price increases were driven in part by a drop in wind-generated energy, the leading form of renewable energy on the European continent.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

This is a global challenge, to which different countries can contribute in different ways, and the big picture must be in view. Since the general auto market remained slumped, global EV market share increased nicely from 2.8% Claim to fame: part and parcel of the regulations-driven surge, Portugal went from 4.9% 3RD PLACE — TIE!

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