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IHS Markit: US gasoline demand could be cut almost in half due to COVID-19

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Further, according to the latest IHS Markit forecasts, the global auto industry will exerience an unprecedented and almost instant stalling of demand in 2020, with global auto sales forecast to plummet more than 12% from 2019 to 78.8 Europe autos demand for 2020 is set at 15.6 million units. year over year.

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

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The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Volkswagen launches “Electric for All” campaign, demos rolling chassis of MEB

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the first series vehicle based on the MEB, will begin in Zwickau at the end of 2019. Our Modular Transverse Toolkit already proved Volkswagen is one of the most successful platform developers in the auto industry. Production of the Volkswagen ID., This Wallbox is an affordable home system that makes charging the ID.

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Germany pumping €1B into plug-in vehicle subsidies, infrastructure; base price cap of €60K

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billion) (€600 million from the federal government, €600 million from the auto industry) and has a term expiring no later than 2019. Half of the amount will be provided by the government, the other half by automakers. The total funding is limited to €1.2 billion (US$1.4

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Tesla’s 2023 in review: NACS adoption, Cybertruck launch and more

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Some of Tesla’s important accomplishments in 2023 included the launch of the highly anticipated Cybertruck and the redesigned Model 3 “Highland,” as well as the widespread adoption of the automaker’s charging hardware across the North American auto industry.

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GlobalData: Coronavirus leads to nosedive in global vehicle sales with lowest January registrations since 2012

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Driving the drop in sales was the emergence in December 2019 of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China. compared with the same month in 2019, it is positively disastrous in China itself. compared with January 2019 to just 1.66 million compared with January 2019—a notably faster rate than the modest 0.8%

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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Norway has long been a major producer of oil and gas, and remains the biggest oil producer in Western Europe, as well as, the third-largest exporter of natural gas in the world. Oslo has been an EV testing hub for the rest of Norway, and Norway itself has been a success story for the rest of Europe and the world to follow.

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