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car companies and battery makers as much as the Chinese government is going to help BYD. Sokol told me that Mr. Much as I admire the Obama administration’s energy and environment team, there’s no way that the U.S. government is going to help U.S.
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Posted by: GSP | Apr 14, 2009 9:07:50 AM Funny, BYD (chinese) already came out with their version of the volt this year. GM cant do it but a 15 year old chinese car company can.now thats funny! JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Autoindustry as possible. it is over, the media!,
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Meanwhile many Chinese automakers were pivoting to EVs, and China made no secret about nurturing strong global automakers while building out a supporting clean-energy infrastructure. they can’t send Chinese workers over here.” First, let’s take a look at how Trump policy affected the autoindustry in the previous term.
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