Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2021
To that end, cutting-edge process control technology and highly competitive production facilities are required. Iljin is investing in new plants in Malaysia and Hungary, while Solus is rolling out new capacity in Hungary and the United States (in partnership with scrap supplier Toyota Tsusho).
Baua Electric
JANUARY 22, 2024
Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. In 1959 the Dutch discovered a giant natural gas field in Groningen ; in 1965 came the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea , soon followed by the first productive oil well.
Baua Electric
MARCH 4, 2024
Chinese OEMs are now producing good-quality vehicles, and thanks to cheap labor, government subsidies and economies of scale, they’re able to offer these at prices no Western automaker can hope to match. Of course, the counter-productive long-term effects of such policies aren’t hard to see. “Mr.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. "When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor.
EV Sales
MARCH 22, 2021
For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold.
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