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Volkswagen global EV production network grows with launch of second German site in Emden

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Volkswagen is expanding its global production network for electric vehicles by now starting to make the all-electric ID.4 Emden is now the second site for electric vehicles in Germany following Zwickau and also joins the Chinese plants in Anting and Foshan. The global production network will then grow to five locations.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units.

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Volkswagen nearly doubles deliveries of all-electric vehicles in 2021 to 263K; all electrified vehicle sales at 369K

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if the brand’s global BEV sales in 2021. 6, which Volkswagen offers exclusively in the Chinese market. 4 topped the BEV charts in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Ireland. This brought Volkswagen up to fourth place among BEV manufacturers in that market. Volkswagen’s most popular BEV model worldwide is the ID.4, In Europe, the ID.4

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Tesla helps catapult EV sales past diesel in Europe for first time ever

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Norway, for example, is the most heavily concentrated EV country globally. The Model 3 has been shipped from Gigafactory Shanghai in China to Europe since January, and Tesla recently expanded its Chinese export strategy to include the Model Y, which was not available in Europe until last month.

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China realizes charging piles, complete vehicles and accessories to go overseas

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The cross-border index shows that the global search index for new energy charging piles has been rising year by year since 2017, especially since 2020. Currently, the countries with the most searches for new energy charging piles are the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, the United States, and New Zealand.

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Crypto, Venmo, NFTs, Tokens: Where Is Money Going?

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Rachel O’Dwyer In Ireland in the 1980s and the 1990s, alongside social welfare payments, we had a token called the butter voucher , which allowed people who were receiving social welfare payments to access butter. “We have increasingly programmed tokens, and they are encoding particular values into spending.”

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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For example, the Chinese Navy has invested in a fishlike. Among the strategically important submarine patrol choke points are the exit routes on either side of Ireland, for U.K. But the very prospect of greater ocean transparency has implications for global security. Meanwhile, the U.S. Pacific submarines.