China
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Germany's economic minister that Chinese electric-car mandates would give an unfair advantage to Chinese automakers.
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China to regulate, rein in low-speed electric cars used in rural areasChina overtook the U.S. last year to become the world's largest market for electric cars. But a large portion of the vehicles included in Chinese new-car sales tallies are low-speed electric vehicles that would not meet U.S. standards for highway-capable cars. Now Chinese regulators are paying more...
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Renewable energy growth accelerating, says International Energy Agency
Renewable-energy growth hit a record pace in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency.
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China decides maybe hybrids could help its emissions too
China may soon incentivize hybrids alongside plug-in cars.
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Is Infiniti now ready to launch an electric car, after all?
Infiniti may build an electric car in response to Chinese demand.
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Which country or region will make the most electric cars in 2025? Poll results
Plug-in electric cars are going to be a bigger part of the vehicle mix in future than they have been to date. That much is abundantly clear. Electric cars are one of four significant forces that will likely change what we think of as an "automobile" forever, the others being autonomy, connectivity...
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Tesla faces many obstacles in China.
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China ratchets down green-energy growth for first time ever
China is expected to slow renewable-energy growth for the first time ever.
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U.S., China peer-reviewed reports lay out huge subsidies for fossil fuels
The U.S. and China published the results of a reciprocal peer review on their fossil-fuel subsidies.
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Tesla software update fixes flaw found by Chinese white-hat hackers
A Chinese security firm discovered a software vulnerability in the Tesla Model S.
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Can GM beat Chinese BYD as global electric-car leader? It plans to try
General Motors believes it can beat BYD on its home turf.
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BMW X1 plug-in hybrid SUV for China only, not North America
The BMW X1 xDrive25Le i Performance will be sold in China only.
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It has been an official goal of the Chinese government to encourage the development and sale of plug-in electric cars for several years now. They are intended not only to help fight the choking air pollution in many parts of the country, but also give China's auto industry an edge in future decades. And because the country makes more lithium-ion battery cells than any other, it would all seem to fit together nicely. DON'T MISS: Chinese Car-Share Dispenses Electric Cars Like A Vending Machine (Dec 2013) That said, however, various national, state, and local efforts to incentivize the sale and...
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Karma, Faraday plan large Chinese electric-car factories
Karma parent Wanxiang and Faraday Future backer LeEco are both planning Chinese electric-car factories.
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Huge Chinese road-straddling elevated bus carries first passengers (video)
You may have seen the renderings floating around the web, showing designs for a huge Chinese bus riding on rails over a multi-lane road. What a wild and wacky idea. Except that it's real, and it has already been built. And it just carried its first passengers this week on a shakedown run. DON'T...
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Samsung takes stake in Chinese electric-car maker BYD, joining Warren Buffett
Samsung takes a 1.92-percent stake in BYD.
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Geely Emgrand EV, Chinese electric car, driven by British reviewer
Volvo owner Geely wants to sell cars in Europe under its own brand name.
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Shanghai Disney Resort offers electric rental cars from SAIC
Chinese carmaker SAIC is providing vehicles for the Shanghai Disney Resort.
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Self-made millionaires often possess an innate belief that they can create products and companies where none existed before. But with companies come factories, and with factories come tax breaks, and with tax breaks come inconvenient questions from government officials. Which is how Faraday Future finds its first U.S. factory delayed by Dan Schwartz, state treasurer of Nevada. DON'T MISS: Faraday Future Shows FFZero1 Concept, But What Did We Learn? (Jan 2016) As Bloomberg reports (via the Chicago Tribune), the company plans to start building electric cars and the batteries that power them at...
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Daimler's Car2Go carsharing service signs up 78,000 China users in 2 months
Car2Go had what is likely its most successful launch ever in the Chinese city of Chongqing.
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China mulls congestion charge, quotas in Beijing for emission, traffic woes
Since the 1950s, California has been a global leader in efforts to limit and then eliminate emissions from motor vehicles. But with hazardous and choking air pollution in its major cities, not to mention traffic jams to rival any in the world, China may prove to be the Golden State's...
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China brings its fuel quality standards up to global levels, quickly
China aims to improve fuel quality as well as lower emissions.
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Apple takes a bite out of Uber, invests $1B into chief China rival
Apple will invest $1 billion into Uber's main car-hailing rival in China, Didi Chuxing, the tech company announced Thursday. Reuters reported that the investment will only add to the Chinese company's sizable coffers—Reuters reported Didi is worth around $20 billion–but the investment...
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Tesla to promote Chinese national electric-car charging standard
Tesla will promote the new Chinese national electric-car charging standard, instead of its own Supercharger standard.
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