BYD To Build 20 GWh Battery Factory In Wenzhou, China
Following closely on the heels of rumors about sodium-ion batteries, BYD announced a new 20 GWh battery factory in China.
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General Motors Ramping Up Electric Car Offerings In China
General Motors is set to introduce new electric cars in China and may bring a Chinese EV to the US shortly.
Ford Wants U.S. Government To Be Lenient With EV Tax Credit Requirements
Ford wants the U.S. to be a bit loose in determining whether EVs comply with new EV tax credit requirements. Read on for what’s going on here. Some Background Rare-earth minerals are a big deal. By mining rare-earth minerals, we are then able to obtain the rare-earth elements needed for … [continued]
China Electric Car Sales — 22% Fully Electric, 31% Have A Plug!
Full electric cars accounted for 22% of new car sales in the Chinese market last month! Plugin vehicles continue to be all the rage in the Chinese auto market. They grew 75% year over year (YoY) in October. They scored over 578,000 registrations last month, their second best month ever, only … [continued]
Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)
Electric vehicle sales were up 62% globally in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021. That includes fully electric vehicles and plugin hybrids. These plugin vehicles reached 4.3 million sales in the first half of 2022, according to global EV analysis leaders at EV-Volumes. Looking … [continued]
China Electric Car Market Report For October — Hot & Getting Hotter
Electric car sales in China continue to set new records month after month, helped by the sale of plug-in hybrids.
Europe, China, & US Could Decarbonise 84% Of Global Shipping Emissions Without IMO
With the vast majority of ships calling at European, Chinese and US ports, regulation of shipping emissions in these economies would be enough to decarbonise shipping globally. 84% of shipping traffic goes through Europe, China and the US, a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study shows. If these economies were … [continued]
BYD Super Premium Hard-Core SUV Coming In Early 2023 — With Video
The first BYD super premium off-road vehicle is scheduled to arrive early next year and cost as much as $200,000. The line forms on the right!
Canada Orders Chinese Companies To Divest From Critical Materials Operations
Canada has ordered three companies based in China to divest from lithium companies doing business in Ontario and other provinces.
New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
