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Audi unveils redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for 2016 season

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Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. The FIA WEC regulations have been providing automobile manufacturers with incentives to build increasingly efficient race cars since 2014. Hybrid drive. The current V6 TDI consumes 32.4%

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Mercedes-AMG reveals performance hybrid and battery-electric AMG derivative strategy

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This is made possible by the mechanical connection of the fully variable all-wheel drive through the cardan shaft and the drive shafts of the front wheels. At the heart of this is the AMG High Performance Battery (HPB) for the upcoming performance hybrid models. In its basic configuration, the performance hybrid is rear-wheel drive.

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