PowerTALK™, July 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

Western countries–United States, Europe and Canada–are placing tariffs on low-cost Chinese EVs and Beijing doesn’t like it. Read about the EV tariff controversy in the July 2024 issue of PowerTALK News. Also in this issue are articles on the global motorcycle market, North American scooter production and Hitachi’s demonstration of a huge EV mining truck.

ALTERNATIVE POWER REPORT

• EV Sales Are Headed for Long-Term Growth
• Research Offers Environmentally Friendly Lithium Production
• EU Tariffs Hit Chinese EVs, Draw Reaction from Beijing
• Canada Considers Tariffs on Chinese EVs

GLOBAL:  

• 2024 MHCV Production Expected To Decline by 1.6%
• 2024 Global Motorcycle Market Estimated at $144 Billion

DATAPOINT: NA Scooter Production

EUROPE:

• Belgium Risks Losing Audi Car Production in Brussels
• Electric/Hybrid Marine Event Shows New Technologies

BRAZIL/SOUTH AMERICA:

• Brazil Truck Production Grows Significantly
• Brazil’s Frasle Mobility To Buy Dacomsa for $389 Million

JAPAN: Hitachi Demonstrates Ultra-Large Electric Dump Truck
THAILAND: Honda To Cut Thai Car Production Capacity by 50%
CHINA: Chinese Joint Venture Begins Battery Plant in Mississippi
INDIA: Bajaj, TVS Enter CNG Two-Wheeler Market PSR

Joe Delmont

Joe Delmont is responsible for the worldwide marketing communications program at Power Systems Research. (PSR). He is an award-winning journalist and sales and marketing professional. Joe is the former Business Editor and News Editor at St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press daily newspaper. He also has worked as a senior account executive, copywriter, and public relations professional with advertising and marketing agencies where he specialized in service industries, crisis communications and media training. For many years, Joe was a contributing editor for Dealernews magazine, and he co-founded Powersports Business magazine, the leading B2B publication serving the North American powersports industry. Joe's resume includes sales and marketing services in powersports research. His international reporting assignments have taken him from Canada to Mexico, Finland to Italy and China and Taiwan, as he wrote about powersports equipment, manufacturing and business. Joe joined the Power Systems Research team in 2012.

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