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China publishes plan to boost fuel-efficient and new energy vehicles and domestic auto industry; targeting 500K PHEVs and EVs in 2015, rising to 2M by 2020

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China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report.

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Predicting How Tariffs Will Affect the Auto Industry

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As usual, TTAC contributor Matthew Guy and I chat about products we use and NASCAR. This week on the TTAC podcast, we tackle tariffs with Robby DeGraff from AutoPacific. There's a lot of moving parts and unpredictability, but we do our best to make sense of it all. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts or by clicking here.

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Ford, University of Michigan open $8M battery lab focused on test production of advanced technologies

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Advanced manufacturing methods will be used to make test batteries that replicate the performance of full-scale production batteries, allowing for faster implementation in future production vehicles. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. —Ted Miller.

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ICCT report finds US domestic EV production and investment continues to fall; only 5% of global EV investment to go to US EV assembly plants

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The ICCT study finds that the United States’ share of cumulative global EV production decreased from 20% to 18% since 2010 and only 15% of the approximately $345 billion in global automaker EV investments are flowing to the US. In terms of annual EV production, Europe’s 1.1 Source: The ICCT. million nearly matched China’s 1.27

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ABB and HASCO create joint venture to drive smart manufacturing in China’s auto industry

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Partnership builds on existing relationship to deliver increased automation and sustainability for auto parts production New joint venture agreement signed by both parties on December 30th 2021 and expected to commence operation in Q2, 2022. 04/01/2022 Images are for editorial use only.

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Navigant Research ranks NVIDIA as top automated vehicle compute platform

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Navigant ranks companies in this report on 10 criteria: vision; go-to market strategy; partners; production strategy; technology; sales, marketing, and distribution; product capability; product quality and reliability; product portfolio; and staying power. Automated Vehicle Compute Platforms Leaderboard. Intel-Mobileye.

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Capgemini and Audi launch XL2 joint venture to support digital transformation of auto industry

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processes, including production planning, logistics, finance, maintenance, quality and materials management. The first focus areas are SAP projects for production and master data management, as well as development in the context of cloud-based applications. Projects of the legally independent entity are to be carried out for Audi.

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