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Porsche EV Development Strategy
Porsche is boldly embracing the future of automotive with electrification in its Strategy 2025 plan. Like more and more manufacturers are doing, it has already declared that future models of its lineup will be full-electric. When it comes to sports...
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Nico Rosberg enters the Rimac Family: Rimac Business Model
Around a year ago, 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg now turned into Entrepreneur/YouTuber published a video in which he talked about his intention to buy a hypercar. He then asked his audience for opinions on the options he selected (even...
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UK EV Market: Britishvolt partners up with Pininfarina
Italian iconic coachbuilder and design firm Pininfarina and start-up Britishvolt announced a collaboration to build the first UK EV Battery Giga-Factory. The project is set to bring the UK at the forefront of the automotive industry evolution to...
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CATL and Tesla: how China is winning the EV batteries competition
The current EV battery industry, with a few big companies, is very much an oligopoly. And the major ones all come from Asia, Korea, Japan and of course, China. Chinese CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, or in Chinese 宁德时代 – Níngdé shídài)...
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Tesla is the world’s second most valuable car company. Is it worth investing in?
As I am writing this article, Tesla shares trade on the NASDAQ for around $750 each. Its market capitalisation is currently well over $100 billion and has overtaken Volkswagen as the second most valuable automotive company in the world. It is now...
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China's EV Challenge: Are foreign Automakers up for it?
The favourite slogans of a certain part of experts or news outlets about the automotive industry, especially those involved with Asian markets has been quite ‘menacing’ lately for well-established firms. It is quite common to see titles such as “China...
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Is the future of supercar electric? New challenges from China
China wants to take the future of supercars by storm. A new generation of start-ups challenging the supremacy of Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, and others in the field of luxury cars – sleek, powerful, and fast - is emerging in the...
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The ingredient that can make or break the new car industry
"If cobalt falls into the hands of the Chinese, yeah you won't see electric vehicles (EV) being produced in Europe, etc. They are waking up too late. I think it's because the car industry has never had a supply chain problem before". During the 2018 FT...
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China automotive market: Real openness or concealed protectionism?
A look at China's strong will to become the world’s leader in the new energy vehicles (NEV) market through cycles of policies and the implications of it for foreign manufacturers. Big car manufacturers may well have claimed victory when China’s...