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BYD Sold 3.02 Million New Energy Vehicles in 2023 Under Founder Wang Chuanfu
SHENZHEN, July 13 — Wang Chuanfu, the founder and chairman of BYD, has built one of China’s most…
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China Took About 60% of Global Electric Vehicle Sales in 2023
BEIJING, July 13 — How did a country that barely sold electric cars a decade ago come to…
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British Engineer Frank Whittle Patented Turbojet in 1930
LONDON, July 10 — On the surface, the history of the jet engine reads as a clean British…
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How Rudolf Diesel’s Engine Went From Patent Paper to 26.2% Efficiency by 1897
AUGSBURG, July 9 — The mechanics here are deceptively simple, yet they rewrote the physics of power. The…
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Volkswagen Opens Its Zwickau Plant to Electric Cars as First ID.3 Comes Off the Line
WOLFSBURG, July 9 — Against this backdrop of a rapidly electrifying global automotive industry, the Volkswagen Group finds…
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Elon Musk Drives Tesla to Become World’s Most Valuable Automaker
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — For a man who started with a modest investment in an electric car…
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Tesla Beats Q3 Delivery Forecasts as BYD Extends Battery-EV Lead
TEHRAN, July 9 — The global electric vehicle race has narrowed to two giants, and the contest between…
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How Jet Engines Work: From Whittle to Turbofans
LONDON, July 8 — The jet engine, the machine that shrank the world, has a history that reads…
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Hundreds of Fatal Crashes on South Jersey Highways Since 2019, Analysis Finds
DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J., July 8 — Early findings suggest that a single-vehicle crash in Gloucester County late Sunday…
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EVs Displaced 1.7 Million Barrels of Oil a Day in 2025 as Auto Jobs Shift
DETROIT, July 6 — The shift to electric vehicles is reshaping lives and livelihoods across the American automotive…
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How Lithium-Ion Batteries Became the Engine of the EV Revolution
BEIJING, July 6 — The lithium-ion battery, first commercialised by Sony in 1991, has become the defining technology…
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BYD Executive Calls for Cooperation With Tesla as Both Outpace Legacy Automakers on Profit
ASTANA, July 6 — The global race to dominate electric vehicle production is reshaping supply chains that reach…
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Tesla and Elon Musk: From a 2003 Startup to a $1 Trillion Carmaker
PALO ALTO, July 6 — For communities across Asia watching the electric vehicle revolution unfold, the story of…
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BYD’s Wang Chuanfu: Engineer Behind Global EV Dominance
SHENZHEN, July 6 — The story of Wang Chuanfu begins not in a boardroom but in a chemistry…
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GM CEO Mary Barra Says Automaker Still Sees an All-Electric Future
DETROIT, July 6 — Mary Barra, the chair and chief executive officer of General Motors, remains at the…
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Report: Federal EV Investments Support Nearly 150,000 New US Clean Car Jobs
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The global electric vehicle market crossed a strategic threshold in 2022, with EVs surpassing…
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Diesel Engine Science: Compression Ignition and Thermal Efficiency
DETROIT, July 6 — The diesel engine, a century-old workhorse of global industry, continues to prove its staying…
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Electric Vehicles: 130-Year History from Horseless Carriages to Motors
LONDON, July 6 — The electric vehicle is often treated as a recent innovation, a product of Silicon…
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Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions
DHAKA, June 30 — Bangladesh has reversed its longstanding policy of taxing electric vehicles heavily, unveiling a sweeping…
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Bangladesh ends EV tax burden, proposes zero tariffs on electric buses and trucks
For years, Bangladesh did the opposite of what it just announced. Electric vehicles carried tax burdens so heavy…
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BYD’s new EV already getting updated
ASTANA, June 29 — The BYD Atto 2 has been on sale in Australia for only eight months,…
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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
DEARBORN, June 28 — Ford Motor Company has brought back 350 veteran engineers — some former employees, others…
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BYD Atto 2 switches to rear-wheel drive in major mechanical overhaul
Eight months on sale in Australia, and BYD is already tearing the Atto 2 apart. Not a facelift.…
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BYD Atto 2 switches to rear-wheel drive in major overhaul, filings show
Eight months. That is how long the BYD Atto 2 has been on Australian roads. And already, the…
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