Electric car-maker Tesla Motors has missed its Model 3 targets for the first quarter of this year. Last week it produced 2,020 of Model 3, against the target 2,500 vehicles. For the next week, the company forecasts to produce 2,000 ...
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Mercedes-Benz Cars is investing more than €100m in a battery factory in Thailand. With a strategic decision Mercedes-Benz Cars is enhancing the manufacturing footprint in South-East Asia addressing growing demand for electric ...
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German luxury automaker Daimler, through its brand Mercedes Benz is investing $1bn in Alabama, US plant to produce electric vehicles. The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz U.S. International), its ...
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Suzuki Motor, Toshiba and Denso have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture company to produce automotive lithium-ion battery packs in India. In India, higher attention is being paid to environment, and new CO2 standards for ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation announces the expansion of R&D facilities at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (China) Co., Ltd., (TMEC). This is in accordance with the initial investment plan, which had been created at the time of the ...
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Mercedes-Benz said it will manufacture the first production model of the new EQ product brand at its Bremen plant in Germany by the end of 2020. The production model will depend on the EQ show car – an electric vehicle with the ...
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As demand for the traditional 18650 cylinder battery has been growing strong recently because of increasing notebook sales, upstream battery module makers have started asking for a double-digit percentage quote raise. Since most lithium ...
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Samsung Note 7 explosion door is like a drama, yiboweiping another. The latest news today, a consumer China abnormal calmly witnessed the whole process of country line version of the Note 7 draft, he later said in the micro-blog Note7 ...
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Shenzhen-based automaker BYD is planning to triple its production of batteries, in an effort to compete against Tesla. Reuters cited BYD Auto spokesman Matthew Jurjevich as saying that the Chinese automaker is planning to add 6 GW hours ...
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The future looks bright for electric cars in China amid rapidly fluctuating gasoline prices and huge investments by the government to promote use of clean energy, industry sources said on Monday. However, inadequate battery technologies ...
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American automotive parts supplier Johnson Controls has expanded its presence in China with the opening of a new automotive battery manufacturing plant in Chongqing City with an investment of $154m. The new plant is claimed to have a ...
Rumors had it that Apple requested two battery suppliers, Taiwan based Simplo Technology and Shenzhen Desay, to challenge the limit for flexible thin battery in order to respond to iPhone 6’s larger screen size and one-third of iPhone ...
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In the bike-loving Netherlands, electric bicycles now account for one-third of bicycle spending. The e-bike is encroaching on the Vespa in Rome, and multiplying on the steep roads of Lausanne. Globally, the production of electric bicycles ...
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Despite mature technology and better cost structures, production forecasts for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are gloomy. That is the conclusion of the latest E-mobility Index by Roland Berger Strategy ...
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Finland-based battery manufacturer European Batteries Oy plans to set up a battery production plant in Tianjin in China with an investment of $318m. The company expects the first phase of the project to complete by October 2013 and ...