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Kia & Hyundai unfazed by BYD’s EVs in South Korea

Teslarati

Kia and Hyundai are unfazed by BYD’s electric vehicles launching in South Korea. Earlier this month, Chinese automaker BYD announced it would enter South Korea’s passenger car market in 2025. BYD entered South Korea’s commercial car market in 2016 but has yet to launch a passenger car there.

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Comment on BYD catches up with Tesla in global BEV market share in Q3 by Midori Mayari

CN EV Post

And I'm not talking about US and Europe; rather, I'm talking about Latin America, Africa, the rest of Asia apart from China, Japan, and South Korea, and so on. More so when Tesla uses BYD batteries outside the US.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

Green Car Congress

The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. A lot of diesel will be trapped in the Far East and this will lead to run cuts in places like Japan and South Korea as the arbitrage to the west will be closed by growing Middle Eastern supplies” said Robert Campbell of Energy Aspects.

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2025 Hyundai Inster review: the $40k city SUV challenge to the MG4, GWM Ora and BYD Dolphin

EV Central

Hopefully they’ll squeeze it in for less to properly challenge the Chinese cheapies, who this year have been busy price war squabbling. 2025 Hyundai Inster EV (Casper Electric in Korea) is pint-sized but with impressive cabin space. 2025 Hyundai Inster EV pre-production test drive in Korea. So, to the Inster.

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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. South Korea comes in third with 72 and the Isle of Man, which has 61 registered ships, in fourth. to 8.7%,” Veson analyst Andrea de Luca told Reuters. “We

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

With a forecasted 30% cost reduction by 2030 as cheaper Chinese turbines gain market share, Australia and Southeast Asia stand to benefit from low-cost wind power equipment imports. WoodMac also underscores the growing competitiveness of offshore wind with fossil fuels in APAC.

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