Audi joins the plug in bandwagon with the latest A3 variant the A3 E-tron. Audi have shown a number of e-tron concepts and now seem fixed on bringing the A3 plug-in version to life with models expected in the UK in summer 2014. The Audi A3 e-tron is a plug-in petrol hybrid version of the […]
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To invest over $400 million on new manufacturing equipment According to the SFGate Tesla can expect state aid worth $35 million on the purchase of $415 million of tooling and manufacturing equipment for its plant in Freemont as the company gears up for increased production. This year Tesla expects to build about 21,500 cars. The
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The jury at Car of the Year 2014 or CotY 14, as they say has trimmed the initial long list to a short list that contains two electric cars: The BMW i3 and Tesla Model S. For this voting phase, each juror selected seven candidates in a simple vote, and the ones with most votes
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Electric vehicles in Norway now account for 12% of new car sales. How can this be? According to Opplysningsrådet for Veitrafikken, the Norwegian information council for road traffic, 12,079 cars were registered in November. Of those, 1,434 featured electric drive–almost 12 percent of the new car total. Most other countries struggle with sub one percent
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