Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2019

Which Chinese automaker showed an electric minivan in Detroit? What upcoming SUV will underpin a new "elegant" electric from Lincoln? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 18, 2019.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2019

And Chinese automaker GAC showed a U.S.-designed designed concept at the Detroit auto show. At a meeting with investors following the Detroit auto show Ford Global Vice. Lincoln's making electric "elegant." Tesla has released a new portable Level 2 home charger. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

market if heavily-subsidized Chinese EVs ever break through here. Factory Zero – GM Detroit-Hamtramck revamped for EVs “Closing the cost-profitability gap will require help from elsewhere, whether through more aggressive efficiency programs, additional public support, or both,” according to BCG. automakers.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2017

China is now the world's largest new-car market, but no native Chinese manufacturers sell passenger cars in the U.S. GAC appeared this week at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show with three vehicles, including an electric car and a concept plug-in hybrid. At least one of those manufacturers is at least considering having a go at the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

GAC is the only Chinese automaker to exhibit at the 2017 NAIAS and is also the first Chinese automaker to present on the main show floor. GAC Motor made its world premiere at the 2015 NAIAS with the debut of the now best-selling GS4.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

Legacy automakers like General Motors must learn new skills and processes to produce EVs with decent batteries and software to compete with startups like Tesla, Rivian, and Chinese car manufacturers. The Detroit Fire Department shared that it has been called to Factory Zero nine times since August 2023.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2012

Next week's Detroit Auto Show promises to be the busiest and most influential in several years. With the auto industry continuing to recover slowly from its 2008 meltdown and Chinese sales rising, both U.S. and overseas automakers will launch new models and show off gleaming concept cars. And green cars will be right at the forefront.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Detroit Free Press. Two Chinese companies and the Chinese government have signed a deal to acquire Delphi Corp.’s s remaining brakes and suspension businesses—the most high-profile acquisition yet by the Chinese in the US auto industry. The Chinese will pay $100 million in cash for the Delphi businesses.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2019

In time with the Detroit auto show, Chinese automaker Geely announced its first electric car planned to go on sale worldwide. Called the GE11, Geely's first global electric car is a sedan about the size of a Honda Civic or Insight, with a similar sloping fastback design.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2010

Nearing the end of our 2010 Detroit Auto Show coverage brings us to a vehicle that got a lot of media attention, though it's unclear when it will actually arrive in the U.S. That's the BYD e6 electric crossover, which could become the first Chinese vehicle sold in the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Early wakeup calls in Detroit continued as our grand tour picked up speed. GM Vice-chairman, Bob Lutz invited us to their private test track about an hour outside of Detroit. On the morning of the new Volt introduction, about a thousand people gathered in a four story atrium in the Renaissance Center in Detroit.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2013

Not content with grabbing headlines with the world’s fastest electric vehicle (see article), Detroit Electric is at it again: after announcing a strategic partnership in China. The company will team up with Geely Automobile Group to develop electric vehicles and related systems in the Chinese market.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Got2BeGreen reports BYD, a large Chinese firm that is jumping into cars, will be showing a plug-in hybrid, the F6DM, at the Detroit Auto Show. The Chinese have nothing to lose breaking new ground in the US market. According to this report, it will begin selling next year in China for about $20,000.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Infiniti plans to introduce a concept version of its first production electric car at the Detroit auto show next month. Chinese electric startup automaker Nio reveals its second production model. Hyundai announces pricing for its upcoming Kona Electric. And German automakers announce big investments in batteries.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2023

Alternatively, with the Chinese language manufacturing announcement, there’s incorrect method I’ll imagine it. We as American citizens were implored for years through Detroit to shop for American. I assumed I’d stick with Lincoln with their Nautilus fashion. I think slightly betrayed. and China, Lincoln does this?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

The planning and construction of this industrial park is a concrete step to implement the Chinese government’s green development goals for Guangdong and the national ‘Made in China 2025’ strategy. Power Asia Pacific’s 2016 China Initial Quality Study, the highest of all Chinese brands for the fourth consecutive year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

Detroit News. GM plans to offer a full battery-electric car in China in the next two years to meet demand spurred by the Chinese government. The Detroit automaker already has begun testing its pure electric technology on a demonstration fleet of Chevy Sails in China, but still has hurdles to overcome.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

In January 2009, it brought the F3DM, the F6DM (a larger version of the F3DM), and an all-new battery-electric crossover, the e6, to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 16, 2024

Lower overhead in terms of production costs are supposed to help them endure the onslaught of cheaper Chinese EVs that are assumed to flood the market as European governments effectively mandate electric vehicles. In the U.S., Legal challenges have also been raised on behalf of the manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

However, large Chinese automakers and regional government are still bullish on new energy vehicles, and making “abnormal” plans. Earlier this year, the Chinese automaker unveiled the e6, the world’s first 5-seater EV that can run 400 kilometers on a full charge, at the Detroit Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2015

Chinese and European markets tend toward PHEVs, Japan toward conventional hybrids, and the US—driven by both California and Federal regulations—toward a mixture of xEVs. The 15 th international AABC is scheduled for 15-19 June 2015 in Detroit.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2010

One of those may be the e6 all-electric crossover built by Chinese manufacturer BYD. Now that the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevy Volt have reached showrooms--a handful of them, anyhow--a new crop of electric vehicles will launch into the market for 2011.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

auto industry worried that Chinese carmakers would use inexpensive cars to gain a foothold here, just as Japanese and Korean makers had done. More recently, the Detroit Three worried that Chinese makers would. Several years ago, the U.S.

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All Cars Electric

MAY 3, 2010

While Chinese car company BYD exhibited its E6 all-electric crossover at the Detroit Auto Show last January, they've otherwise been fairly quite of late. Now comes word that the company has chosen downtown Los Angeles as the location for its U.S. headquarters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

signed an agreement with SAIC USA, a fully owned subsidiary of Chinese automaker SAIC Motors, to manufacture and distribute the Savari V2X communications solutions in the Greater China and selected ASEAN countries. V2X company Savari Inc. —Wenhua Huang.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2023

” It’s anticipated to exit on sale in early 2024 and be constructed at GM’s Manufacturing facility 0 plant in Detroit. Chinese language govt officers just lately discharged pictures of the Cadillac Optiq, an electrical crossover that would slot between the XT4 and the Lyriq in length.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

BYD Auto, the Chinese automaker part-owned by a Warren Buffett company, plans to introduce a limited number of its e6 electric crossovers in the US next year, according to BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2011

Later today at the Detroit Auto Show, Chinese carmaker BYD will take the wraps off a new incarnation of the e6 crossover it's shown twice before. This time, however, it comes with an upgraded interior, a more powerful drive motor, and a price: $35,000 before incentives.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Besides that eye-watering price tag, it all runs counter to a big push for more affordable EVs as Chinese rivals turn up the pressure. Electrek’s Take The brand is hoping the French, for one, will connect with the Cadillac’s French heritage – adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit in 1701.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

2 of 3) Driven by Detroit This strategic decision is part of what makes Bright different from the other startups offering to retrofit hybrid cars or to sell plug-ins. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. The Irvine, Calif.-based and EnerDel Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Protean Electric introduced its production in-wheel motor at the 2013 Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit. The FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Company (FAW-VW) was founded in 1991 and is a Chinese joint venture between FAW Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company and Volkswagen Group.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

BAIC BJEV has been building its global R&D network in its core areas, i.e. electric and smart technologies, by establishing oversea R&D centers in Silicon Valley, USA; Aachen, Germany; Detroit, USA; and Barcelona, Spain. Earlier post.).

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The industry was dominated by three large companies: General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, all based in Metro Detroit.” And in addition to the Korean companies, Chinese backed (Geely) Polestar and Vinfast, the auto division of the Vietnamese industrial company VinGroup are some of the other up and comers. ” Source: Wikipedia.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2009

’s Chinese venture partner, have formed a partnership to promote electric car transport in the city of Guangzhou. The Detroit News. ’s Chinese venture partner, have formed a partnership to promote electric car transport in the city of Guangzhou. Nissan Motor Co.’s Last Updated: November 23. 2009 8:54PM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

At least two Chinese automakers are bringing some of their new energy vehicles—hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric—to two of the major international auto shows in the first quarter of this year. The only Chinese automaker exhibiting in the Detroit show, GAC Group brought three of its newly developed new energy vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 12, 2011

Chinese electric car maker BYD is planning to enter the US market in the first quarter of 2012, starting with the launch of its e6 electric car model. The firm, which is financial backed by Warren Buffet, revealed the plans at the opening of the Detroit Motor Show this week. According to news agency, Reuters, [.].

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Chinese automaker BYD has announced that it will reveal its plans for US-ready electric drive vehicles and clean energy products at the upcoming 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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