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VW teases second-generation ID.3 EV with design and tech upgrades: VW has teased a second-gen ID.3 that promises a slicker design and better technology..
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VW teases second-generation ID.3 EV with design and tech upgrades
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VW teases second-generation ID.3 EV with design and tech upgrades: VW has teased a second-gen ID.3 that promises a slicker design and better technology..
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VW teases second-generation ID.3 EV with design and tech upgrades
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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum: Swedish automaker Volvo has rolled out its last diesel engine vehicle, after a 45-year relationship with ...
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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum
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Fisker in trouble: search for a partner failed, future uncertain: The electric car maker Fisker needs money and was looking for a large car manufacturer that ...
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Fisker in trouble: search for a partner failed, future uncertain
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Nobody Told EV Owners How Quickly They Burn Through Tires: Adoption appears to be leapfrogging education as new owners are frustrated to learn that powerful ...
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Nobody Told EV Owners How Quickly They Burn Through Tires
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VW Golf VR6 | Spotted: All the VR6-engined Golfs seem desirable these days - does that also mean the Mk3?
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VW Golf VR6 | Spotted
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Volkswagen Foundation: Half a billion euros for universities in Lower Saxony: Last year, the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover said it distributed a record sum of ...
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Volkswagen Foundation: Half a billion euros for universities in Lower ...
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How Northvolt wants to stand up to China with its Gigafactory: One of the most modern factories for electric car batteries is being built on the German North Sea ...
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How Northvolt wants to stand up to China with its Gigafactory
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Volkswagen workers are joining the big auto industry unionization push: The United Auto Workers are coming for its shops — and would make the German automaker ...
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Volkswagen workers are joining the big auto industry unionization push
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Auto advice: Are electric cars cheaper to fuel than a petrol or diesel car?: Our motoring editor answers your questions on the total cost of ownership for ...
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Auto advice: Are electric cars cheaper to fuel than a petrol or diesel ...
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Audi boss Döllner is convinced: “The future of cars is clearly electric!”: Electromobility is in crisis in Germany after funding was withdrawn. However ...
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Audi boss Döllner is convinced: “The future of cars is clearly electric!”
Quick Glance: Audi CEO Convincing: Future of Cars Electric
  • Despite a downturn in electric mobility in Germany, Audi remains committed to its electric offensive.

  • Audi CEO Döllner emphasizes the clear electric future of cars and plans to phase out conventional drives by 2033.

  • Mercedes adjusts its plans in light of declining sales of electric cars and extends production of combustion engine models.

  • Many electric car start-ups fail as establishing new brands proves to be challenging.
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Tech giant reveals nice price for new EV to take on Tesla: Tesla already has its work cut out in China competing with auto behemoth BYD, but a new player ...
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Tech giant reveals nice price for new EV to take on Tesla
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Volkswagen reveals ID Buzz GTX with 340hp: The most unlikely member of the GTX clan has arrived with all-wheel drive and Cherry Red paint
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Volkswagen reveals ID Buzz GTX with 340hp
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Volkswagen is focusing more on e-cars: "The future is electric": The Group is launching 30 new models on the market this year, including combustion engines ...
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Volkswagen is focusing more on e-cars:
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BYD’s new EV, starting at less than $10,000, is stoking fear across the industry: Leading EV maker BYD shook the industry after unveiling the new Seagull ...
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BYD’s new EV, starting at less than $10,000, is stoking fear across the ...
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Podcast: “ams explains” (66): The 1x1 of the charging infrastructure: The government wants 1 million charging points - We already have 10 percent ...
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Podcast: “ams explains” (66): The 1x1 of the charging infrastructure
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ID 1: VW is said to be working on small electric cars for less than 20,000 euros: According to a report, a new platform with its own battery cells will enable VW ...
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ID 1: VW is said to be working on small electric cars for less than 20 ...
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VW ID.3 GTX: The GTI among the electric cars: With the ID.3 GTX, VW is bringing the performance version of the compact electric car. It even comes in two ...
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VW ID.3 GTX: The GTI among the electric cars
Quick Glance: Volkswagen: Challenges and Issues for VW
  • Volkswagen describes the 2023 balance sheet as robust, indicating room for improvement.

  • Profitability is increasing, yet remains below target. Cost-cutting measures are planned.

  • Weak demand for electric cars impacts profitability and poses challenges.

  • Expectations are set on new electric models, software division, and the Chinese market.
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Half of Irish drivers willing to make the move to electric or hybrid car, survey shows
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Half of Irish drivers willing to make the move to electric or hybrid car ...
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EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans
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EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their ...
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The Taycan Turbo GT Is The Quickest, Most Powerful Porsche Ever: The 2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT packs up to 1,092 horsepower and can hit 60 in just 2.1 seconds ...
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The Taycan Turbo GT Is The Quickest, Most Powerful Porsche Ever
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Quick Glance: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Wildcards for German Top Players
  • Laura Siegemund and Tatjana Maria secure wildcards for the main draw.

  • Angelique Kerber and Emma Raducanu receive top-20 wildcards.

  • Young players Ella Seidel and Nastasja Schunk granted wildcards for the qualification rounds.

  • Exciting show doubles tournament kicks off the tournament with stars from various sports.
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BYD Seagull - the cheapest electric car in the world is a declaration of war: Build Your Dreams offers the Seagull small electric car for under 9,000 euros ...
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BYD Seagull - the cheapest electric car in the world is a declaration of ...
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Climate diesel HVO 100 - can my car tolerate the fuel?: From April, it will be possible to fill up with the new HVO climate diesel - as a CO2-reduced alternative ...
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Climate diesel HVO 100 - can my car tolerate the fuel?
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Electromobility: Why the electric car hype is only just beginning - Golem.de: In recent weeks, one could get the impression that the electric car has already ...
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Electromobility: Why the electric car hype is only just beginning - Golem ...
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New Tesla Roadster will have SpaceX technology, Elon Musk says: The long-awaited second-generation Tesla Roadster will come out of a collaboration with SpaceX.
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New Tesla Roadster will have SpaceX technology, Elon Musk says
Quick Glance: Elon Musk's Directive to Implement Full Self-Driving Beta in Every New Tesla Delivery
  • Elon Musk has instructed Tesla employees to install and demonstrate Full Self-Driving Beta for all customers receiving a delivery in North America.

  • Tesla is committed to enhancing the system continuously, aiming to eliminate the need for driver attention and achieve true autonomous driving.

  • In a move to increase customer acceptance, Elon Musk directed Tesla employees this morning to install the FSD Beta software on all newly delivered vehicles and provide brief test drives to the new buyers.

  • Requiring a test drive with each new delivery is expected to significantly increase the workload at Tesla stores and delivery centers, a requirement Musk emphasizes as crucial.
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Wolfsburg plant: VW continues to run special shifts in April and May: The combustion engine models from the VW brand are in high demand. Special shifts will ...
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Wolfsburg plant: VW continues to run special shifts in April and May
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Ferrari's First EV Will Not Be Silent: The legendary Italian marque's EV will come with "sound signatures" mean to "stir emotions" when it arrives in late 2025.
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Ferrari's First EV Will Not Be Silent
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I sold my electric car and went back to a diesel – I’d had enough: Drivers are finding there are plenty of reasons for stalling on electric cars ...
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I sold my electric car and went back to a diesel – I’d had enough
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China to challenge Biden’s electric vehicle plans at the WTO: China filed a World Trade Organization complaint against the U.S. on Tuesday over what it says are ...
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China to challenge Biden’s electric vehicle plans at the WTO
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Audi reveals new all-electric Q6 e-tron SUV, its first next-generation EV: Ordering for the Q6 e-tron quattro will open this month in Europe, starting at 74 ...
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Audi reveals new all-electric Q6 e-tron SUV, its first next-generation EV
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Dacia Sandero still top-selling model in Europe, ahead of Tesla and VW: The best-selling model of the Dacia brand, Sandero, managed to keep its place at number 1 ...
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Dacia Sandero still top-selling model in Europe, ahead of Tesla and VW
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Tesla Model Y as a commercial vehicle: Tesla France turns the Model Y into a van: Tesla France shows a Model Y converted into a commercial vehicle ...
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Tesla Model Y as a commercial vehicle: Tesla France turns the Model Y into ...
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Electric car sales in Australia's outer suburbs take off as commuters pocket 'ridiculous' savings
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Electric car sales in Australia's outer suburbs take off as commuters ...
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This Batmobile-like Rimac Nevera electric car hits 256 mph — and costs $2.5M: With a top speed of 256 mph, the Rimac Nevera is headed from its birthplace in ...
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This Batmobile-like Rimac Nevera electric car hits 256 mph — and costs $2 ...
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Epic-sounding 3.3-litre VW Transporter for sale: Heard the one about the VW bus with a Subaru flat-six? Best get comfy
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Epic-sounding 3.3-litre VW Transporter for sale
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Car auctions are full of used EV bargains – but should you take the plunge?: Prices for second-hand electric cars are on the floor, so there are savings to be ...
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Car auctions are full of used EV bargains – but should you take the ...
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Volkswagen R Wants To Become A Standalone Electric Performance Brand
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Volkswagen R Wants To Become A Standalone Electric Performance Brand
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Volkswagen cancels plans to build ID.3 at main plant because ‘every euro counts’: Volkswagen has canceled plans to build its all-electric ID.3 at its main ...
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Volkswagen cancels plans to build ID.3 at main plant because ‘every euro ...
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New ID 7 GTX 'the most powerful VW estate ever': Electric wagon earns 340hp and all-wheel drive - will it be enough?
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New ID 7 GTX 'the most powerful VW estate ever'
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Renault wants to charge £7,500 to fix my Zoe electric car: The charger was the only fault, but it would cost more than the car was worth to replace
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Renault wants to charge £7,500 to fix my Zoe electric car
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This is how the German auto industry is doing: German car manufacturers are often talked badly about. But the numbers for 2023 say things aren't going so badly.
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This is how the German auto industry is doing
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Apple Car: Leaked design info reveals it would've been a minivan: Apple was taking design inspiration from the classic Volkswagen van and EV car company Canoo.
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Apple Car: Leaked design info reveals it would've been a minivan
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China-based Canadian stole Tesla secrets, say US prosecutors: A Canadian resident of China has been arrested in the United States for allegedly stealing electric ...
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China-based Canadian stole Tesla secrets, say US prosecutors
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Tesla May Be Blacklisting Cybertruck Flippers: If you try to flip your Tesla Cybertruck for a quick profit during the first year of ownership the EV maker may ...
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Tesla May Be Blacklisting Cybertruck Flippers
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Rimac Teases a Hatchback Out of Nowhere, and We'll See It June 26: Electric hypercar pioneer and Bugatti partner Rimac has teased a hatchback out of nowhere ...
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Rimac Teases a Hatchback Out of Nowhere, and We'll See It June 26
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Biden’s regulators poised to issue rule meant to drive electric car sales: The regulation offers a test of President Biden’s ability to drive an ambitious ...
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Biden’s regulators poised to issue rule meant to drive electric car sales
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?: Surprisingly, the EV market has stalled in recent years. Why? Because the market has reached a difficult point in the ...
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
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China's Xiaomi embarks on Apple's road not taken: China's Xiaomi may have started out as an Apple wannabe but it has now pulled ahead of the American technology ...
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China's Xiaomi embarks on Apple's road not taken
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China’s automakers try turning Japanese: Electric-vehicle makers in the People's Republic want to go back to the future. Efforts to block car exports from China ...
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China’s automakers try turning Japanese
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Switch to electric motoring accelerates with more motorists opting to buy EVs: Despite the increase in sales, the overall take-up of EVs (electric vehicles) in ...
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Switch to electric motoring accelerates with more motorists opting to buy ...
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Why the Lucid Air Is the Best and Worst Car We’ve Ever Had: During one year of ownership, our 2022 Car of the Year reached for the stars.
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Why the Lucid Air Is the Best and Worst Car We’ve Ever Had
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Move over Toyota, this Japanese electric pickup takes aim at Ford’s F-150 Lightning
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Move over Toyota, this Japanese electric pickup takes aim at Ford’s F-150 ...
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Nikola inaugurates first HYLA modular hydrogen refueling station in Ontario, CA: Nikola wants to build 14 of these stations in California this year ...
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Nikola inaugurates first HYLA modular hydrogen refueling station in ...
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Alfa Romeo Tells Us The New Giulia Looks The Bomb: In an interview with Motor1, Alfa Romeo CEO Jean Philippe Imparato shared details about the next Stelvio and ...
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Alfa Romeo Tells Us The New Giulia Looks The Bomb
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2026 Mercedes-AMG EV Teased While Testing in the Snow: An electric follow-up to the four-door AMG GT is due to arrive by 2026, and it sports similarly dramatic ...
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2026 Mercedes-AMG EV Teased While Testing in the Snow
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Hertz CEO out following electric car ‘horror show’: Hertz is replacing its CEO for the fourth time in four years
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Hertz CEO out following electric car ‘horror show’
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25-year-old critically injured in accident in Geeste: A 25-year-old was critically injured in a traffic accident on the south-north road in Geeste on Monday ...
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25-year-old critically injured in accident in Geeste
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Ferrari CEO: Our EV won't be 'silent' like Tesla: Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna said the carmaker's future electric car won't be quiet like other EVs on the road.
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Ferrari CEO: Our EV won't be 'silent' like Tesla
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Porsche unveils one of the fastest road cars in the world, featuring a 1,000-horsepower ‘launch control’ button
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Porsche unveils one of the fastest road cars in the world, featuring a 1 ...
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Going Electric Won’t Fix Our 'Global Epidemic Of Car Harm': Plus Tesla production gets back online in Germany and Chinese automakers may have a new way to sell ...
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Going Electric Won’t Fix Our 'Global Epidemic Of Car Harm'
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Yellen says China’s rapid buildout of its green energy industry ‘distorts global prices’ | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
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Yellen says China’s rapid buildout of its green energy industry ‘distorts ...
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Tesla rival BYD is officially a bigger deal than Elon Musk would like to admit: The Chinese automaker reported strong net profits in 2023 as it became the top ...
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Tesla rival BYD is officially a bigger deal than Elon Musk would like to ...
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Nissan wants to launch 16 EVs in 3 years as it eyes a Honda partnership: "We cannot succeed if we continue along the same path," Nissan's CEO said
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Nissan wants to launch 16 EVs in 3 years as it eyes a Honda partnership
Quick Glance: Nissan Aims for 30 New Cars by 2027
  • Nissan plans to introduce 30 models over the next three years as part of the Arc business plan, including 16 electrified and 14 ICE vehicles.

  • Apart from the U.S. and Canada, the Arc includes various regional strategies that involve the introduction of seven completely new models.

  • While maintaining secrecy regarding the lineup of 30 models, Nissan appears to have a strong focus on crossovers and SUVs.

  • No specifics about a potential collaboration between Nissan and the struggling startup company Fisker are outlined in the Arc business plan.
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Review: Honda ZR-V: With the Honda ZR-V you get the best of both worlds – electric and petrol – says Julie Marshall
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Review: Honda ZR-V
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The Polestar 4 Starts at $56,300 and No, You Can’t Pay Extra for a Rear Window: The Polestar 4 will start at $56,300 in the U.S. when it goes on sale in the ...
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The Polestar 4 Starts at $56,300 and No, You Can’t Pay Extra for a Rear ...