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Volkswagen sign agreement with Chinese electric carmaker

Green Cars News

German carmaker, Volkswagen has signed an agreement with Chinese car and battery manufacturer, BYD (Build Your Dreams) to collaborate over the development of electric and hybrid cars. Particularly for the Chinese market, potential partners such as BYD could support us in quickly expanding our activities.”.

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EV gameplan: Strategic tie-ups, fund raising, the way forward | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Skoda not only leads Europe’s largest car maker Volkswagen Group’s operations in India, it also steers the low-cost vehicle architecture projects, for both internal combustion engines (ICEs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The low market share of the remaining OEMs in the mass market space makes it tough for them to survive.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. With Octopus Go we receive low cost power between 00:30 and 04:30 every day. Help with reducing our carbon footprint. See [link].

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. People wont buy a full car.

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