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BMW introduces electric 3 Series for Chinese market

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The BMW Group continues to broaden its portfolio of electrically powered vehicles with the addition of the fully electric BMW 3 Series, which will enter the Chinese market in May 2022. Fine tuning of the BMW i3 eDrive35Lā€™s suspension systems to Chinese road conditions has been carried out by the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd.

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Volkswagen releases design sketch for ID.AERO fully-electric sedan; Chinese market first

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AERO concept vehicle, a fully-electric limousine planned for the Chinese automobile market. AERO concept is expected to go on sale in the Chinese automobile market in the second half of 2023. The corresponding production model for the North American and European market will be presented in 2023.

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33% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China ā€” February 2024 Sales Report

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Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, even in the slowest month of the year ā€” due to the Chinese New Year celebrations. Due to the fact that festivities occurred this year in February, and last year they were in January, the market had an apparently.

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Tesla share of Australia EV market falls below 50 pct as Chinese brands make their marque

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Tesla's EV market share in Australia has dropped below 50 pct in the latest month, as lower cost Chinese brands gain market share. Includes sales data for all models. The post Tesla share of Australia EV market falls below 50 pct as Chinese brands make their marque appeared first on The Driven.

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Chinese lithium prices hit records as EV sales take off; nickel at 7-year high

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Chinese lithium carbonate prices soared in 2021, due to a surge in demand for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the country, according to the end-of-year analysis by Benchmark Minerals Intelligence. Transacted prices in China began to breach the RMB 200,000/tonne mark in November—a historical milestone for lithium pricing.

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CRU: Chinese EV sales hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak, but only for short-term

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The COVID-19 has hit the Chinese EV sector hard; CRU, a provider of business intelligence on the global metals, mining and fertilizer industries, believes that weak sales will last at least until early Q2 2020. Nonetheless, it continues to forecast Chinese EV sales growth in 2020 over 2019ā€™s total.

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35% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China! (China EV Sales Report)

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Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over half a million sales last month, up 93% year over year (YoY). Share-wise, with April showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 35% market share! That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 1.9 million units.

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