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An oil giant just pulled its own gasoline tanks out of the ground and dropped battery packs into the hole. Sinopec, China's biggest fuel retailer, gutted a Shanghai gas station at 1209 Huqingping Road and turned the whole site into an…
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TANGERANG — Chery is using Indonesia as more than a sales market. The Chinese automaker is building its cheapest electric car around local road conditions and commuter habits, and it has picked Jakarta's biggest auto show to prove the…
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The first Hyundai IONIQ 3 electric hatchbacks are now rolling off the line at the company's İzmit plant in Turkey, turning the factory into Hyundai's first overseas site to build one of its dedicated battery cars. The production start…
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Global EV Sales Rose 9 Percent in July as Europe Surges and North America Retreats PARIS — Global electric vehicle sales climbed 9 percent in July to 1.85 million units, pushing the year-to-date total past 11.5 million, but the growth map…
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Nio's July delivery numbers tell a clear story: the Chinese EV maker is increasingly a two-SUV company. The ES8 and ES9 together moved 16,603 units last month, accounting for 83 percent of the core Nio brand's 20,008 deliveries and nearly…
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Chinese carmakers sold a record share of Europe's battery-electric cars in the first five months of 2026, and the numbers are putting trade policy back under the microscope. New data from Schmidt Automotive Research, a Germany-based…
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Mitsubishi has confirmed the ASX VR-e, its first fully electric car for Australia in more than a decade, will reach local showrooms in the fourth quarter of this year. The compact crossover arrives on a platform developed by Foxtron, the…
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The Smart brand built its name on a car barely longer than a parking space. Now, after cancelling the Fortwo in 2024, the Mercedes-Benz and Geely joint venture is bringing that idea back as an EV. The Smart #2 completed its regulatory…
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Volkswagen's China joint venture has filed its first pure battery-electric model in the new ID. ERA family, and the spec sheet reads like a direct answer to the domestic EV brands eating the JV's lunch. The ID. ERA 5X compact SUV appeared…
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Indonesia is about to bet bigger on electric vehicles. Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa said on August 4 that President Prabowo Subianto will unveil a new incentive package covering half a million electric cars and half a million…
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Ford has finally given its affordable electric pickup truck a name, and the price it is leading with tells you everything about the strategy. The new model will be called the Fathom, with a starting price of $28,350 that lands just under…
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Australian drivers are buying electric cars at a pace the industry did not see coming. July's sales data, released on Wednesday, put battery-electric vehicles at 21.7 percent of all new vehicles in the country, the third consecutive month…