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Bright Automotives Plug-in IDEA Debuts on Tuesday

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Bright Automotive will unveil its IDEA plug-in hybrid concept on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Bright will then take the IDEA will to Norway in May 2009 for the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS24).

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Hennessey Venom F5, 2024 Mercedes-Benz G-Magnificence: Automotive Information Headlines

Baua Electric

Pace the newest used to be in 2009 with the divulge of the 16 Galibier idea, there used to be additionally an try in 1993 with the divulge of the EB 112 idea. There were a couple of makes an attempt to creation a contemporary Bugatti sedan through the years.

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Porsche invests €70M to increase stake in Rimac Automobili to 24%

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Mate Rimac inspires us with his innovative ideas. Mate Rimac founded the company named after him in 2009 at the age of 21. Rimac is well on its way to becoming a Tier 1 supplier for Porsche and other manufacturers in the high-tech segment. —Lutz Meschke.

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Porsche increases stake in electric sports car company Rimac to 15.5%

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Founder Mate Rimac started developing his vision of a fast, electrically powered sports car in a garage in 2009. We have many collaborative ideas that we aim to bring to life in the future. —Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at Porsche AG and Member of the Executive Board responsible for Finance and IT.

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Junkyard Find: 2012 Hyundai Equus

The Truth About Cars

To give you an idea of just how amazingly cheap the first US-market Excels were, the only new cars that could undercut the 1986 Excel on MSRP were the wretched Yugo GV and the miserable Subaru STD three-door hatch with four-on-the-floor manual. The Hyundai Genesis showed up here as a 2009 model and sold quite well.

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Porsche takes 10% stake in the electric technology and sports car company Rimac; development partnership

Green Car Congress

In 2009, founder Mate Rimac began working from his garage on his vision of producing electric sports cars that could both be fast and offer excitement. We feel that Rimac’s ideas and approaches are extremely promising, which is why we hope to enter into close collaboration with the company in the form of a development partnership.

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Bogotá pilots all-electric taxi fleet using BYD e6s

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A measure was adopted by the Ministry of Environment in 2009 so that these types of vehicles could be imported with zero tax and electric cars in Bogotá do not have license plate restrictions as do conventional vehicles. The idea is that this project can be replicated in other places in Colombia.

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