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Auto supplier Adient cuts jobs, transfers roles in Europe to shave costs – ET Auto

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European automakers face a trifecta of challenges: soft demand due to higher borrowing costs that discourage car purchases, fierce competition from Chinese rivals, and higher input costs squeezing their margins. 31, as the UAW strikes affected production volumes in the United States.

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OneD, Koch Modular partner to scale up silicon-graphite EV anode materials – ET Auto

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General Motors is a OneD investor and customer. Over the last decade, Chinese suppliers have flooded the market for polysilicon – high-purity silicon – market with cheap supplies, making new U.S. production uneconomical, Koch Modular president George Schlowsky told Reuters. Nanowires are ultra-thin wires.

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Waymo robotaxi to begin driverless services for employees in Austin – ET Auto

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Waymo is pulling ahead with its expansion plans at a time when its key rival Cruise, owned by General Motors, has suspended US operations in the wake of a pedestrian-dragging accident. Alphabet’s Waymo said on Tuesday it will begin driverless passenger services for its employees in Austin, Texas starting Wednesday.

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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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The global lithium industry is so interwoven with Chinese capital now that it’s going to be impossible to unpick. A third of the company’s product went to the country in 2022, overtaking the US for the first time. In Chile, which trails Australia as the second-biggest producer of lithium, Chinese money is also dominant.

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At CES, legacy automakers scramble to keep up in AI arms race – ET Auto

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ChatGPT and other new AI systems are error-prone, and changing at a far more rapid pace than automakers’ traditional product cycles. Mercedes will have to develop software and push it into vehicles on much faster schedules than the two-to-four-year product cycles normal in the auto sector. General Motors on Dec.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. Español HD Mobile Engadget Engadget Engadget Web Images Video News Local RSS Feed Contact us Tip us on news!

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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