Old internal CD / DVD drives.
Perhaps a combination of many factors. Anti-EV lobbying being one.
Transitioning from ICE to EV production will result in job redundancy in the manufacturing and assembly of engine, gearbox, exhaust, and other ICE-specific components. This could lead to mass layoffs, which would have severe political and economic implications .
Additionally there is a significant technological gap between legacy ICE manufacturers and EV manufactures to the point that legacy auto may never bridge the gap and will always be a step behind new EV manufacturers. Which may lead the whole industry and even the country to be hesitant to switch.
Mexico sold roughly five times as many EVs this year as last
Other areas of note are the United Kingdom, which saw a roughly 17 per cent increase year-to-date.
In Turkey, the EV market grew by almost 50 per cent year-to-date
Basically in countries with no legacy auto manufacturers, EV sales increase much more rapidly.
As far as can tell it only affects cars with Cariad software which seems to be used by VW group EVs.
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Unfortunately yes.
It lapped the Nürburgring in 6:46
Subsidies or no subsidies the petrol Volkswagen Taos / Tharu XR cost around $11k in China [1] while 2.5x more in the US [2]
Tesla was once the most subsidised automaker in China [3]
The US is also trying to block Chinese battery companies from operating locally [4]
Also companies like BYD prices its cars multiple times what it sold for locally and are making a huge profit margin from cars sold overseas in Europe.[5]
Its a badge engineered Geely Galaxy E5 with right hand drive and a “better” suspension tune.
There is a 4 ton plane tested by CATL with a 8 ton plane in the works
https://electrek.co/2024/06/25/catl-successfully-tests-electric-plane-1800-mile-model-nears/
It’s a badge engineered maruti suzuki e vitara
Mexico uses the BYD D1 as a taxi cab. That should give an idea of how the cars are holding up.
There is a 100% tariff so it is unlikely.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-china-evs-tariffs-0cd68ba7533bc6e7111cdd5811c8889c
Also kinda seem protectionist when the tariffs do not apply to ICE and hybrid cars.
Here is the link to the demo
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/QwQ-32B-preview
Its fascinating to see a LLM answer a query while showing you the steps taken.
Ethiopia has already banned sales of new combustion cars as of February this year.
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