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Nikkei: India passes Japan to become world’s No. 3 auto market in 2022

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from 2021, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association and the Japan Light Motor Vehicle and Motorcycle Association. Vehicles powered by gasoline, including hybrid vehicles, accounted for most of the new autos sold in India last year. Electric vehicles hardly have a presence. million units.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

LiveWire, the all-electric motorcycle brand spun out of Harley-Davidson, is shaping itself into a force to be reckoned with in the still-evolving electric motorcycle industry. And I got to experience all of it as the proud new owner of a shiny indigo LiveWire S2 Del Mar Launch Edition electric motorcycle.

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Terra Motors starting electric two-wheeler sales in Iran

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Japan-based Terra Motors, a manufacturer of electric two and three-wheelers ( earlier post ), has started sales of the A4000i electric scooter—with new products to follow—in Tehran, Iran with Jahanro Industrial Co, exclusively for next five years. started from just a small motorcycle shop. Jahanro Industrial Co.

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ABAT and Wuxi Angell Autocycle Introduce Three Hybrid Motorcycles

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Ltd unveiled three hybrid motorcycles at the Dealer Expo 2009, 13-16 February, in Indianapolis, IN. The computerized control puts the motorcycle on pure-electric drive at low speed, and switches to the gasoline engine at high speed while recharging the batteries.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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Harley-Davidson Launches Stand-Alone Electric Bike Brand. Harley-Davidson, the legendary and revered American manufacturer of motorcycles, announced that it is establishing LiveWire as a separate electric motorcycle brand on July 8,2021, just in time for the first of nine outdoor International Motorcycle Shows.

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Terra Motors & FCC Corporation partners to develop futuristic EVs

Electric Vehicles India

Terra Motors Corporation a Japanese electric vehicle maker has partnered with a Japan-based FCC Corporation to develop futuristic electric vehicles for global markets. The collaboration between the two companies will develop futuristic electric vehicles using the Indian operations as the base for the activity.

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

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The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. How impressive is AC Propulsion electric drive genius?

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