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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure from Tesla and BYD

Teslarati

Volkswagen faces mounting pressure to keep up with Tesla and Chinese automakers in the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and its success in doing so could have major implications. The auto industry is faced with the question of whether and how we will be a global leader in the future,” Baerbock said at the event. “The

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CATL to supply BMW with cylindrical cells for EVs starting in 2025

Teslarati

BMW and CATL have been in a supply partnership for a decade, but the Chinese firm is looking to expand its production and manufacturing footprint into the North American market. It will spend $5 billion to establish the plant in the United States, with the most likely locations for the new facility being in South Carolina and Kentucky.

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CALSTART brief highlights growth of and future opportunity for California’s clean transportation technology industry

Green Car Congress

A new CALSTART brief indicates that California’s climate and energy policies are not only helping to protect the environment and improve air quality, but are also helping to accelerate growth of the clean transportation technology industry (CTTI) in the state.

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Polestar takes $1.6 billion loan to achieve growth targets

Teslarati

billion loan from parent company Volvo Cars and significant shareholder PSD Investment ($800 million each). As previously announced, the Scandinavian brand will use a pre-existing Volvo Cars manufacturing facility in South Carolina to build their upcoming Polestar 3. To do so, Polestar has acquired a massive $1.6

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Polestar 3 officially unveiled in China, price cut by about $29,080 from previous

CN EV Post

The Polestar 3 is Polestar's first SUV and will be the electric vehicle company's first all-electric model that will be produced in both China and the US. Production is also expected to begin by mid-2024 at Polestar's plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, the automaker said when it unveiled the Polestar 3 last year.

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round.

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Volkswagen has ‘all the ingredients’ to succeed as the US shifts to EVs, but will it?

Baua Electric

Volkswagen’s CFO Arno Antlitz said Europe’s largest automaker has “all the ingredients” for success as the US auto industry shifts to electric. The company will build vehicles at its $2 billion facility in South Carolina. The company also fell behind Tesla in US market share for the first time last year.