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China to Impose Higher Tech Standards on Electric Vehicle Startups

China’s electric-vehicle industry, with 200-plus companies backed by a raft of billionaires, verges on a massive shakeout as the government imposes stricter technology standards on fledgling manufacturers and considers limiting their number to only 10. The higher standards would be aimed at weeding out the weak, said a senior executive with the state-backed auto manufacturers’ association, and they may push as

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BYD Targets China’s 3 trillion Yuan Monorail Market

BYD Co. is in talks with several of China’s smaller cities on building monorail systems to preempt traffic congestion spurred by rapid growth in automobile ownership. Monorail systems are a potential 3 trillion yuan ($450 billion) market in China, based on an average 70-kilometer (43.5-mile) network in each of an estimated 300 cities, and will become a new major growth

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