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Leading Chinese car maker MG has joined the plug-in hybrid ute rush in Australia. Its contender to rival the BYD Shark 6 and a rapidly growing number of rivals will be the U9 dual cab 4×4 ute that made its global debut at the Melbourne motor show last night (Friday April 4). The JAC T9 Hunter also made its global debut.
Tesla’s push for the new Model Y’s global dominance has officially started. As per recent reports, the production of Tesla’s new Model Y is starting across the company’s factories. Production of the new Model Y has officially started at Gigafactory Shanghai.
Tesla isn’t even sitting at the (robotaxi) table yet,” Lou Tiancheng, CTO of Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai , remarked during an interview in May. Globally, only Alphabet’s Waymo and a handful of Chinese firms have overcome this barrier. By that standard, Tesla remains far behind.
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market following a 90-day pause on steeper tariffs that had been unveiled the previous week, the implementation of universal 10 percent tariffs, and a 125 percent tariff on Chinese imports. Theyre produced in a global market and so the supply chains are going to optimize based on that global market dynamic.
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Image credit: CnEVPost) Nios (NYSE: NIO) third factory in Hefei, Anhui province, or the F3 factory, will officially begin production in September, according to William Li, the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker. The Onvo L90 will start at under RMB 300,000 ($41,870), according to William Li.
2025 Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive review: Can the cheapest Model Y hold off the even cheaper Chinese competition? . 2025 Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive review: Can the cheapest Model Y hold off the even cheaper Chinese competition? “So really bringing it back to product, and even our heritage. .
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Roskill reports that prices for Chinese graphite continue to rise as producers contend with increasing electricity costs and supply disruption caused by limits on energy consumption. Chinese graphite prices are now the highest they’ve been for many years.
Mercedes-Benz has entered a far-reaching strategic partnership with the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., The contract will provide a secure source of supply of battery cells for Mercedes-Benz’s electrification strategy, while Farasis gains security for its planned construction of production capacity.
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executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with its Japanese offtake partner and a leading Chinese processor of graphite anode material to collaborate on the construction of a value-add, battery anode plant in a jurisdiction that is proximal to the Company’s Molo graphite project in Madagascar. Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc.
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