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Mercedes brings five new EVs to IAA Mobility

Green Car Congress

It will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from the Kecskemét plant in Hungary. The engine is referred to as synchronous because the rotor turns at the same rate as the magnetic field of the stator. This even occurs until they come to a standstill, for example at traffic lights.

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BYD shares first official images of its ultra-affordable Yuan Up SUV

Baua Electric

With Hungary seemingly set as its future home to EV production for the European market, BYD appears determined to break through the ceiling into the executive suite currently occupied by legacy EU automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen while remaining price competitive with is easily its most prominent foe, Tesla. Have a look.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. Of all the frauds that have come to light, none can match the brazen theatricality of the scam allegedly pulled off by superlawyer Marc Dreier. near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k

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