BEIJING, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Japan's Honda Motor (7267.T) will launch a new electric vehicle brand in China next year, it said on Wednesday, and will only launch battery electric, hydrogen fuel-cell or petrol-electric hybrid vehicles there from 2030.

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DETROIT – Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is targeting a fleet of at least 1 million self-driving vehicles by 2030.

During a GM investor event Wednesday, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann showed a graphic of the division’s “exponential Cruise fleet ramp.” The graph pointed to Cruise scaling its operations 1 million or more vehicles by the end of the decade.

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General Motors and General Electric are looking at developing a supply chain of rare earth materials that help make electric vehicles and renewable energy equipment.

The companies said Wednesday that the memorandum of understanding between the automaker and GE Renewable Energy will evaluate options to improve supplies of heavy and light rare earth materials as well as magnets, copper and electrical steel.

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GEORGETOWN, Ky.  — After thousands of miles of real-world testing in the harsh environment of commercial trucking, Toyota is preparing to further expand its portfolio approach to products by taking its groundbreaking hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric technology from prototypes to production in its efforts toward carbon neutrality.

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