Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

Following the EQA 250 (combined electrical consumption: 15.7 kWh/100 km) it is the second fully electric compact car from Mercedes-EQ. After Europe, the international version of the EQB, produced in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be launched at the end of the year, followed by the US market launch in 2022.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tesla’s rival BYD is considering Mexico for its new electric vehicle (EV) plant. The Chinese automaker aims to expand its global presence and sees Mexico as an excellent place to reach its goals. It opened facilities in Thailand this year and announced plans to build a production site in Hungary in the next three years.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

Chinese automaker BYD has concluded 2023 with record-breaking sales, which surpasses the 3 million annual sales target and retains its position the global new energy vehicle (NEV) sales champion, for the second year in a row. In the Chinese market, BYD retained its position as the best-selling car brand and manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle. The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. The Chinese plant in Dadong also began producing the BMW iX3 this year.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

MG Motors, a unit of Chinese automaker SAIC, will open a second European parts centre by the summer of 2024 in France to meet the country’s growing demand for its vehicles, a spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. SAIC is currently evaluating whether to build a factory in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ global portfolio will include eight all-electric Mercedes-EQ models. The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants. kWh/100 km) started in Vitoria, northern Spain.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe It was a huge year for profits at Chinese auto behemoth BYD. million fully battery-electric vehicles last year, coming close to Tesla’s projected goal of 1.8 Of course, the Chinese EV market is booming – but looking at the numbers, it’s pretty staggering. In 2023, the company sold 1.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Total lithium-ion capacity existing or being built has doubled since the beginning of 2021, following announcements of new plants by Chinese and South Korean battery producers, according to Benchmark’s Gigafactory Assessment. LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7 trillion (US$1.4

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Baua Electric

JUNE 17, 2024

EV automaker Polestar has announced several expansion plans for 2024 and 2025 as its portfolio of all-electric offerings continues to grow and hit new customers. Other new markets include the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, and Brazil, with the help of local distribution partnerships.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Chinese automaker Chery is planning to make cars in Spain, where the EV market is at just 12%, half that of Portugal and France. Given the slow uptake of electric vehicles in Spain, Chery says it plans to make combustion engine, hybrid, and electric vehicles there. This would be Chery’s first manufacturing site in Europe.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While European automakers have been shifting over to direct sales à la Tesla, China’s BYD, for Build Your Dreams, along with Chinese peers Xpend and Great Wall Motor are looking to dealers to build sales and provide networks to help their brands build solid reputations and trust among Europeans. Last year, the company sold 1.6

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Chinese EV behemoth BYD may bring two off-road electric SUVs sold in China to Europe that could rival the Land Rover Defender, the Mercedes G-Class, and Ford Bronco. For its off-road capabilities, each wheel comes with an electric motor that allows it to turn on the spot or slide sideways into parking spaces. tonne curb weight.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

BYD Atto 3 (Source: BYD) Europe and the US say that Chinese EV development is running wild and unchecked and on the verge of overwhelming the global market with, well, EVs the rest of the world can’t compete with. million fully battery-electric vehicles last year, overtaking Telsa in overall BEV sales.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. Together with our ambitious colleagues, we as a works council want to help to shape the change in the automotive industry for electric mobility.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Photo by Wallace Chuck on Pexels.com Ford is laying off some 3,500 workers in Germany as the automaker ends the production of the Focus – the once crazily popular car that never managed to get off the ground with its electric version – in 2025. But Ford pulled the plug on European sales in 2017, and 2018 in the US due to weak sales.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2024

The new factories come in addition to the six already planned in Germany, Thailand, Hungary, Indonesia, and two in the US. Despite a slow start to 2024 due to the Chinese New Year, BYD saw solid sales growth. GM’s new electric vehicles, including the Chevy Equinox EV, Blazer EV, and Silverado EV, are hitting the North American market.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Most BYD vehicles are based on its e-Platform 3.0 , an advanced 8-in-1 electric powertrain with integrated Blade batteries. As new electric cars roll out in China, BYD sees joint venture brands (overseas automakers) market share falling from 40% to 10%. The 30% offers room for Chinese brands to grow.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

South Korea’s SK On plans to start mass producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries as early as 2026 to supply several automakers as it pushes to deliver a lower cost battery chemistry favoured by its Chinese rivals, a senior executive said. We have to compete with the Chinese LFPs. “The biggest challenge is cost.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

The fully electric BYD Atto 3 SUV was the top-selling electric model, with over 19,200 units delivered. The automaker solidified its commitment to the region as Thailand works toward its goal of having 30% of vehicles manufactured in the country to be electric. BYD was Thailand’s best-selling EV maker last year.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

In keeping with studies on Chinese language social media, the ignition used to be led to by means of the broken battery. We will be able to remind you that Nio has a battery switch station plant right here, in Hungary. PSS ignition case As reported, the ignition came about in Jiangmen, Guangdong province.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

With the Concept EQS, Mercedes-Maybach is providing a clear preview of the first fully electric series-production model for the luxury brand. A further all-electric model is also set to appear on this basis, the EQS SUV, which will go into series production in 2022, even before the Maybach. kWh/100 km) with 215 kW.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is aligning its global production network to manufacture its reshaped product portfolio focused on luxury electric vehicles as the brand prepares to go all electric by the end of the decade—wherever market conditions allow. platform (AMG Electric Architecture) from 2025. Sindelfingen.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2024

A new electric hot hatch is about to hit the market. BYD revealed the new Ocean-M at the Beijing Auto Show in April, calling it the first RWD performance electric hatch. As the latest addition to its Ocean series, the electric hatch takes design influence from the Seal and Dolphin. The Ocean-M is based on its new e-Platform 3.0

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With Hungary seemingly set as its future home to EV production for the European market, BYD appears determined to break through the ceiling into the executive suite currently occupied by legacy EU automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen while remaining price competitive with is easily its most prominent foe, Tesla. Have a look.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

Its single electric motor is on the front axle for 150 kW and 310 Nm, and it’s powered by two LFP battery options from China’s FinDreams: 49.92 Chinese companies MG and Chery have also been scouting sites in Mexico and talking to officials for better access to the North American market, actions which have set off alarm bells in Washington.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

We EV pundits have been writing about the rise of the Chinese EV industry for years. In recent weeks, the mainstream press has picked up on the story—many articles describe the coming wave of Chinese exports in apocalyptic terms. A recent headline in the New York Times warned of a “wrecking ball” heading for Detroit.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Traffic cones fly by in the side windows like mailboxes on a country road until I let off the pedal and let “B” mode’s regenerative braking lasso this electric SUV down for a gradual right turn back into its parking spot. Audi farms dual motors for the Q6 E-Tron in Hungary, rated at 140 kw in front and 250 kw in the rear.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt. This could turn out to be one of Buffett’s very best deals. BYD’s forward-thinking management.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Yayoi Sekine, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The US-China trade war heats up as the Biden administration has signaled a warning that electric vehicles from China could pose a “significant national security risk” in that the huge amount of data they collect could be sent to China. Meanwhile, the Chinese military steers clear of Tesla vehicles for the same reasons.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). Also, Portugal is where Jose calls home.

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