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  "EVs are essential to President Xi Jinping's blueprint for creating a manufacturing superpower by 2025. The nation is building at least 20 "EV towns" for carmakers and ancillary industries, and it spent more than $30 billion subsidizing EV sales. China accounts for more than half of global EV sales. All told, China's electric fleet may swell to 162 million vehicles by 2040, according to forecasts by BloombergNEF."

• LG Chem sees electric vehicles accounting for 15 per cent of all car sales in 2024

  "South Korea's LG Chem, one of the leading electric vehicle (EV) battery makers, expects global sales of EVs to grow more than five-fold from 2018 levels to account for about 15per cent of global vehicle sales in 2024, it said on Thursday. LG Chem, which counts General Motors and Volkswagen among its customers, also forecast battery costs, which account for about one third of EV prices and serve as one of the biggest hurdles for the wider adoption of EVs, would fall to $100 per kilowatt hour in 2025 on average from $200 in 2015."

• Ford partners with Volkswagen, Amazon to build charging network for cars

  "Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it was teaming up with Volkswagen AG and Amazon.com to give its future electric car customers a range of charging options from highways to homes. The network of charging stations will be the largest in North America with 12,000 locations and more than 35,000 charge plugs, Ford said."

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