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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure from Tesla and BYD

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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure to keep up with Tesla and Chinese automakers in the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and its success in doing so could have major implications. Earlier this year, Tesla also announced plans to debut an upcoming factory in Mexico. Volkswagen had just around 145,000 sales.

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BYD launches $233K Yangwang U9 electric supercar that will smoke a Ferrari and can dance

Baua Electric

It’s also quicker than the Porsche 911 Turbo S (2.6 The automaker is even considering a plant in Mexico to serve as an export hub to the US. Ford’s CEO Jim Farley said the American automaker is working on affordable EVs to compete with Chinese automakers like BYD.

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Tesla’s next Gigafactory location unknown, but all signs point toward India

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The Chinese EV production plant quickly became Tesla’s most effective, accumulating thousands of workers and producing a majority of the automaker’s annual volume. It went from a domestic production facility for Chinese customers to an “export hub” that would feed some of the best-selling EVs to the European market.

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VW ID.4 review, Audi Q6 E-Tron preview, Lexus RX PHEV, Trump EV tariff: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

2025 Audi SQ6 E-Tron In a preview drive of the 2025 Audi Q6 E-Tron , we saw the promise in Audi’s first fully conceived, best executed EV—thanks in part to the new PPE platform it shares with the Porsche Macan EV. Former President Donald Trump said that he will apply a tariff of 100% to cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies for U.S.-market

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The right way to get oil-rich West Asia to pressure electrical vehicles? Chinese language EV makers contemplate

Baua Electric

With EV call for slowing at house, and firms dealing with considerable import price lists in america in addition to a Ecu Union probe into Chinese language subsidies, automakers view the patch as a big enlargement alternative that, thus far, is in large part untapped. of the passenger-vehicle marketplace. Chery Car Co.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning. Virtually any car, truck or bus can be made or redesigned as a long-range PHEV.

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