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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. When it was over, all the British and Italian motorcycle brands were wiped out, leaving the field to one US brand—Harley Davidson—and four Japanese brands—Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha. Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.

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Air Products provides hydrogen fueling station to Shell in Germany

Green Car Congress

The hydrogen used to power the vehicles is produced as a by-product of industrial process and brought to the site in a tanker. As well as recently also opening a fueling station in Freiburg, as co-ordinator of the EU-funded HyTEC project Air Products recently opened a new fueling station at Heathrow airport to fuel a set of hydrogen taxis.

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Volkswagen partners with D-Wave on quantum computing; CeBIT premiere of research project for traffic flow optimization

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In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.

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GM reports strong Q1 Earnings, prepares to navigate semiconductor shortage

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GM is working on expanding its fleet of all-electric vehicles and has several models planned for release in the coming years, but it will first have to prepare to navigate through a global semiconductor shortage that has caused delays and closures across the automotive industry. taxis by 2030. brand, and one for the Acura brand.

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EVTOL Companies Are Worth Billions—Who Are the Key Players?

Cars That Think

No one expects the urban air mobility market, if it does get off the ground, to ever be large enough to accommodate 250 manufacturers of eVTOLs, so a cottage industry has sprung up around handicapping the field. The aerospace industry is not used to producing in those kinds of numbers….The

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Ford bucks the hybrid car sales trend

Green Cars News

Hybrid car sales may have slumped as the recession continues to take its toll on the car industry, but Ford has made itself the exception that proves the rule. The remarkable rise comes in sharp contrast to the overall picture across the automotive industry, with hybrid sales in the US having fallen by 14 per cent during the same period.

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Scrappage scheme scrap ends

Green Cars News

Carmakers are back on board the scrappage scheme following yesterday’s fiasco which saw the like of Ford and Honda suspend their participation in the scheme while issues over VAT payments were cleared up. Tags: Ford Green credentials Honda incentive scrappage scheme suspend.