Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The Ricardo HyBoost concept is based on a downsized, highly boosted turbocharged direct injection gasoline (TDGI) engine giving improved fuel economy at low cost, linked to a 48V electrical architecture including a belt starter generator (BSG), DC-DC converter and a lithium-ion battery for energy storage. This launch vehicle replaces the 2.0L

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2019

The electric-car company was founded in 2017 when the Chinese industrial company Sokon bought the battery-technology company founded by former Tesla CEO and founder Martin Eberhard. Seres, the startup electric carmaker formerly known as SF Motors, is shelving plans to bring a new electric car to market in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 1, 2020

Which Chinese brand is aiming to have the most affordable EV in the U.S. What looks like a modern-but-downsized electric VW Microbus? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 31, 2020. General Motors showed a little more of its upcoming GMC Hummer EV on.

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CN EV Post

JANUARY 13, 2025

It should come as no surprise that if the Chinese market continues to exhibit hostility toward Western luxury brandsfavoring local competitors that replicate brands like Porsche (and others) while underselling themthen it may be prudent for Porsche, and similar brands, to recalibrate their focus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

As the limit in downsizing metal morphology, the concept of single-atom catalysts (SACs) has emerged since it maximizes the exposed atom efficiency. . … much effort has been devoted to replacing the Pt-based electrocatalysts for ORR, and especially for use in acid media which is a required condition of PEMFCs. Tour is the T.T.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 18, 2010

General Motors is calling on Chinese partner SAIC to help develop a new downsized gasoline engine family and an advanced dual clutch transmission, one of the first major developments between the two automotive giants and surely not the last. The new engines, which will be offered in displacements ranging from 1.0-

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EV Central

APRIL 24, 2025

If you want to tell electric from hybrid, the latter electrified combustion-powered ES features the slimmest air intake above the downsized trademark Lexus spindle grille. Far more striking than the car it replaces, the new ES picks up where the 2023 LF-ZC concept left off, with a sleek low-drag look and sportier fastback rear styling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Houston have developed a robust, solid-state catalyst that shows promise to replace expensive platinum for hydrogen generation.

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Cars That Think

JULY 28, 2023

In China’s case, LLMs are currently downsizing in their size and number of parameters. According to sources, this is because the country is now focusing on enabling Chinese startups and smaller entities to build their own generative AI applications. Wu dao” means “path to enlightenment” in Chinese. a series of open-source LLMs.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2023

All of the above is emblematic of what the Chinese market considered luxury. A lot of the automotive trends Chinese luxury brands are running with today were copied from high-end German products of the past. You can hardly find a high-end Chinese automobile produced today without them.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 27, 2025

The same will presumably be true for its Chinese partnership with Dongfeng. Considering that assumed sales trajectory for the industry at large is likewise not looking super promising, it may be wise for most automakers to downsize.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2023

In fact, it's easy to picture Cosmo Vitelli driving a '76 Grand Prix (instead of his Cadillac) in " The Killing of a Chinese Bookie ," which hit theaters in 1976. For the 1978 model year, the GM A-Bodies got downsized. This car is in good shape, with very little rust. The interior needs very little beyond a cleaning.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Mass layoffs by Chinese-owned firms are extremely rare, but the fierce price spearheaded by BYD has potentially forced its hand. Of course, China granted Tesla a special exception from its longstanding requirement of making foreign automakers form joint ventures with Chinese-owned firms. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Electrek’s Take Although Ford is growing in The Middle East, the company is downsizing in other key regions. Ford is restructuring its business in Germany as it fights stiff competition, including low-cost Chinese EV makers. In Germany, Ford lost two of its most experienced leadership team members this month.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The news comes after Ford drastically downsized leadership in the region. Despite Ford, VW, and others slowing production, Chinese EV makers, like BYD, expect sales to accelerate with local production. Earlier this month, Ford lost two of its most experienced leadership team members in Germany.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The American automaker has drastically downsized leadership in Germany this year. After dominating its home market, BYD and other Chinese EV makers are looking overseas to drive growth. Ford’s CEO Jim Farley warned rivals earlier this year that if they fail to keep up with the Chinese, “20% to 30% of your revenue is at risk.” “As

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, Volvo says, the little electric SUV might be the first new car for a young professional or a new couple, or empty-nesters who want to downsize their second or third vehicle now that they’re done hauling kids and their gear. Volvo EX30. Photos courtesy of John Voelcker.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It would also provide them with more resources to compete with larger peers globally after downsizing long-held partnerships with other carmakers. and Chinese automakers, it said. Nissan has loosened ties with Frances Renault SA and Honda has backed away from General Motors Co. Nissan ADRs rose 12% and Hondas gained 0.9%

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ram mid-sized ute Ram has comfirmed it will produce a new mid-sized EV pick-up truck (ute) to be released between 2024 and 2026 Ram is known for its big American pickup trucks, but the brand that was spun off from Dodge is set to downsize with a new mid-sized ute to take on the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux. We’re watching on with interest.

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EV Central

JUNE 15, 2024

And maybe it’s the logical downsizing limit for Australia. Being a motoring journalist these days is to suffer battle fatigue from an endless stream of binging, bonging, steering wheel-grabbing, ill-handling and soggy riding Chinese cars that have great showroom appeal but are poorly calibrated to drive.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). The company was created from the old GM’s strongest operations and was reborn with a clear focus on building better and more environmentally friendly vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, Volvo says, the little electric SUV might be the first new car for a young professional or a new couple, or empty-nesters who want to downsize their second or third vehicle now that they’re done hauling kids and their gear. Volvo EX30. Photos courtesy of John Voelcker.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Reuters ) 1/8/07 Indefatigable auto entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin, no longer planning to import Chinese-made cars to the U.S., We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! Malcolm Bricklin] said a working proof of concept would be built in six months and that the cars would be in production by 2009. Were starting to build the prototype," he said.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Japanese manufacturer is prepared to do some serious downsizing and hunting for new investors — with leadership not pulling any punches when conveying this to the public. “We Chinese customers spend an average of $26,000 per vehicle, whereas Americans spend roughly $49,000 on average — with U.S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. electric vehicle supply chains’ reliance on Chinese rare earths and battery components, U.S.-friendly Meanwhile, agriculture industry lobbyists fought just as hard against those reductions.). In 2016, a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized. In addition, the second car will likely be a conventional car burning more fuel and creating more CO 2 per distance traveled than a long range PHEV because of the greatly downsized and more efficient engine in the PHEV.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With plans to drastically downsize its workforce, Ford’s future in Germany looks bleak. Ford blames slower-than-expected demand for its EVs and a weakening economic situation for the downsizing. According to Germany’s largest trade union, Ford’s new job cuts “would mean an incremental death” to its future in Cologne.

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