Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers, including majors BYD, Chery, Geely, and SAIC, are establishing dealerships across Mexico and, according to one Mexico City BYD salesman, the cars are selling as fast as he can get them.
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YOU MAY SOON BE ABLE TO PAINT YOUR EV WITH SOLAR CELLS
Mercedes-Benz is well along in developing a solar “paint” that can cover a car’s body in an energy-generating film that makes energy from sunlight.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: EVs MORE RELIABLE BUT STILL LESS SO THAN INTERNAL COMBUSTION CARS
The reliability of electric vehicles (EVs) has surged, a Consumer Reports survey found. EV drivers reported 42 percent more trouble than drivers of internal combustion cars did. However, that represents a major improvement from the 79-percent gap found in 2023.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: AUTOMAKERS TURN TO PLUG-IN HYBRIDS. CONSUMERS TURN AWAY
When consumers slowed their purchases of all-electric vehicles (EVs), they turned to hybrids that run mainly on gas but also draw some power from a battery pack.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
Ford Motor has dumped its plan to produce a three-row, all-electric SUV, citing an overcrowded market and consumers’ reluctance to pay premium prices for electric vehicles (EVs).
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
Despite a 32-percent plunge in sales in China, Honda Motor reported an 8.7-percent year-on-year gain in profits in its fiscal first quarter.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
After five years of mapping a road to an all-electric future, designing electric vehicles (EVs) and retooling factories to make them, and investing billions of dollars along the way, U.S. car companies are hitting the brakes.
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU
An abrupt slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales cut battery giant LG Energy’s profit by 58 percent, year on year, in this year’s second quarter, the company reported last week.
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EV BREAKDOWNS AND DIRTY PFAS TECH: THE LATEST IN “EV GO FU”
Problems with core Electric Vehicle lithium battery technology lie at the heart of two recent stories underscoring our 2024 Top Trend, “EV GO FU.”
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TOP TREND 2024: EV GO FU: TOYOTA GOES FULL RETRO, RE-ENGINEERS PISTON ENGINE
Alone among major auto companies, Toyota still refuses to fully commit its future to all-electric mobility. Instead, it has introduced a redesigned piston engine for gas-electric hybrid vehicles.