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BaaS: Improving the EV Experience through Battery Swapping

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For example, NIO, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer, is promoting its attempts to build its battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) business unit under its NIO-Power brand. With EV sales in China dropping in the first half of 2020 owing to the COVID-19 outbreak and reduced subsidies, manufacturers are looking for new methods to boost profits.

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Electric Car Watch #10: Tata, Mahindra vs Tesla vs Chinese vs MNC’s

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Sales of Tata, Mahindra, Maruti - The Big 3​ The BIG 3 Indian car companies dominate the passenger car segment in India. Here are some numbers for November 2021- Maruti leads the passenger vehicle sector with sales of 109,726 units - of course Maruti has 0 electric cars in their portfolio, so all of those are pollution cars.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

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Chinese automaker BYD may have been founded in 2003, but it wasn’t until 2008 that it garnered mainstream attention when Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffet, bought a 10 per cent stake in its parent company. REVA: An Indian company that markets the G-Wiz in the UK. Fisker Automotive.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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We chatted up with Jayasuriya, the state head of TML for Electric Vehicle sales. And he assured me that Oben is not taking the Chinese assembler route to market. Jay’s first EV was the DC motor Reva, which he bought way back in the early 2000s. Sales are incidentally back to normal now. So was his wife.