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Elon Musk Super Bullish on Chinese Electric Car Companies

CleanTechnica EVs

continued] The post Elon Musk Super Bullish on Chinese Electric Car Companies appeared first on CleanTechnica. Tesla’s recent conference call for investors was packed full of little nuggets, and some big nuggets. We covered the Tesla.

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Geely Auto forms new premium electric car company Zeekr; SEA EV architecture

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Geely Auto Group (Geely Auto) officially announced the widely reported formation of Zeekr—a new electric mobility technology and solutions company based in China that will serve growing global demand for premium electric vehicles. Zeekr aims to deliver a new electric vehicle to market each year in the coming five years.

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Chinese Electric Car Companies Coming To Brazil

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BYD is planning to build electric cars in India and now Brazll as part of its ambition to be the largest electric car company in the world.

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Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in electric car charging company FreeWire

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Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in mobile EV rapid charging company FreeWire Technologies ( earlier post ) via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. FreeWire is a San Francisco-based company that has been a pioneer in flexible fast-charging technology for electric cars. kW or DC fast charging at 50 kW.

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Polestar is the latest electric car company to go public

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Polestar, an all-electric car brand that spun out of Volvo, announced that it is going public through a SPAC. It becomes the latest of many electric car companies that have chosen to go that route over the last year.

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VinFast owner establishes a new electric car and scooter rental company

Electrek

Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, Vingroup, announced Monday the formation of a new electric car and scooter rental company that will use VinFast EVs to promote green mobility. more… The post VinFast owner establishes a new electric car and scooter rental company appeared first on Electrek.

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T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

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Tesla in Berlin, Northvolt in northern Germany and Italvolt near Turin are among the projects that stand to lose the greatest volumes of their slated capacity as the companies weigh up investing in the US instead. Battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric cars—1.2 Europe must act or risk losing it all.

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