Malaysian national carmaker Proton achieved its highest quarterly sales volume since 2004 by delivering 49,140 units in the first three months of the year. This meant 40.1 percent year-on-year growth, a feat made more impressive by the fact that the broader Malaysian automotive market actually contracted by 4.9 percent during ... [continued]

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Within the first month of release, the Nissan Serena e-POWER recorded over 1,300 bookings and around 250 deliveries nationwide, indicating solid initial demand for a midsized MPV in this price range. April deliveries are now approaching 1,000 units. Nissan assembler and distributor Edaran Tan Chong Motor introduced the sixth-generation version ... [continued]

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VinFast sold 3,520 electric vehicles in a single day in Vietnam — an operational benchmark that matters less for its volume than for what it reveals. This was not a sales spike. It was a systems test. Production, logistics, and delivery aligned at scale, without visible friction. For a relatively ... [continued]

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Toyota Motor Corporation is moving to join cellcentric as an equal shareholder alongside Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG, following the signing of a non-binding memorandum of understanding among the parties. The planned structure would give all three companies equal ownership in cellcentric, which will continue to operate as an ... [continued]

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I visited IBM’s headquarters in Yorktown last December, arriving just after a snowstorm had rolled through the Hudson Valley. The timing was fitting. Quantum computing, like winter weather, is something people talk about constantly but many don’t experience directly. At IBM’s Quantum Technology labs, you can at least hear the ... [continued]

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This story updated on January 28 to add some details on the battery subscription as it applied in the Philippines. As electric vehicle adoption continues to gain momentum in Southeast Asia, VinFast Philippines is once again highlighting battery subscription as a central strategy for lowering the cost barrier to EV ... [continued]

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This story updated on January 28 to add some details on the battery subscription as it applied in the Philippines. As electric vehicle adoption continues to gain momentum in Southeast Asia, VinFast Philippines is once again highlighting battery subscription as a central strategy for lowering the cost barrier to EV ... [continued]

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Most of CleanTechnica’s contacts at Gogoro have cleared the deck. Luckily, we have one or two of them still in the Taiwan HQ and we will get more insider information during Computex 2026. But for now, here are the goods.  Gogoro is trying to stop the bleeding. After years of ... [continued]

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The luxury electrified vehicle brand of BYD, Denza, has begun formal operations in the Philippines, adding a new entrant to the country’s growing market for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The move reflects continued expansion by parent company BYD, which has been increasing its presence across multiple vehicle segments in ... [continued]

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Over a thousand electric buses will be introduced to Malaysia’s road network, starting with the capital Kuala Lumpur, as the country’s long-stalled push to decarbonize public transport is finally breaking out of pilot mode. In a report by the Malaysian Transport Ministry, Prasarana Malaysia Berhad, the country’s dominant public transport ... [continued]

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On January 8, XPENG dropped some interesting news about its product roadmap that actually reveals something bigger than just two new extended-range models. The company is doing something different with extended-range EVs — instead of treating them as a workaround for charging infrastructure problems, XPENG is building them as electric-first ... [continued]

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Our sources are once again proven reliable. In our earlier exclusive a few days before the news broke globally, we spoke of how China’s automobile and industry organizations were pushing (caressing) the Canadian government to reduce EV tariffs so that they could export their EVs to Canada. EV makers in ... [continued]

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Most of CleanTechnica’s contacts at Gogoro have cleared the deck. Luckily, we have one or two of them still in the Taiwan HQ and we will get more insider information during Computex 2026. But for now, here are the goods.  Gogoro is trying to stop the bleeding. After years of ... [continued]

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The luxury electrified vehicle brand of BYD, Denza, has begun formal operations in the Philippines, adding a new entrant to the country’s growing market for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The move reflects continued expansion by parent company BYD, which has been increasing its presence across multiple vehicle segments in ... [continued]

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