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Electric Mini Rocketman to take to Chinese city streets

Green Car Reports

In case the new electric Mini Cooper SE isn't small enough for some buyers, Mini plans to build an even smaller electric car in China, based on its 2011 Rocketman concept.

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NIO planning on releasing affordable electric car for European market: report

Teslarati

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer NIO appears to be preparing to capture some market share from mainstream automakers like Volkswagen. NIO’s chairman, William Li, reportedly confirmed this strategy in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Toyota announces electric C-HR for China in Beijing

Green Car Reports

Toyota announced a third electric car for China at the Beijing auto show last week. In addition to the plug-in Corolla and Levin sedans, the company will electrify its C-HR hatchback for the Chinese market according to a report in British car magazine AutoCar.

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China EV Daly (July 20): NIO’s Energy Week unearths, SAIC-Audi cooperation, Leapmotor’s attainable tech export, Tesla Q3 forecast, NETA S 2024 on sale

Baua Electric

. — Autohome [SAIC] At the afternoon of July 20, the individual in command of SAIC Staff replied to the former rumors that Audi had bought SAIC’s electrical platform, declaring that SAIC and Audi had reached a consensus, and the 2 events would boost up the improvement of electrical cars via cooperation.

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Volkswagen’s $27,000 ID 2all electric vehicle may come later than expected

Baua Electric

According to a local media report, Volkswagen is delaying volume production of the affordable electric car. Volkswagen’s ID 2all EV production is being delayed A report from the German magazine auto motor und sport claims that Volkswagen’s ID 2all will go into mass production in May 2026 rather than 2025.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

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Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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Tesla co-founder shares warning about OEM’s EV focus: “They haven’t really done the math fully”

Teslarati

Former Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel recently shared some insights about the electric vehicle revolution and the focus of OEMs on pure electric cars. As noted by Straubel, Tesla was actually quite surprised that the Model S did not cause a substantial shift among OEMs to commit fully to battery-electric cars.

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