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Imported Audi, Porsche, and Bentley Models Held Back Over Forced Labor Allegations

The Truth About Cars

While the impacted automakers include Porsche, Bentley and Audi, we’ve seen plenty of brands being accused of leveraging forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, where the country is said to have forcibly concentrated the Uyghur ethnic minority. authorities could conduct a proper investigation. custom laws.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

First Drive: 2017 Tesla Model X P100D ; Tesla Continues to Get Mixed Marks ; Flash Drive: Tesla Model 3. Volkswagen Group (which includes VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the U.S.) Models from Bentley and Lamborghini will come, too, but in the small, expensive numbers in which those brands routinely trade.

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Polestar 5 will be brand’s top model from 2025

EV Central

Volvo had been bought from Ford by big Chinese car maker Geely in 2010. In 2017 Geely and Volvo announced Polestar would be spun off as a stand-alone brand focused on EVs. Volvo bought Polestar in 2015, and for a time used the name on high-performance ICE- and hybrid-powered variants.

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Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

Charged EVs

It will be priced at $300,000 and above, putting it above top-end models from Audi, BMW, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz, and up against more rarified marques: Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and perhaps Mercedes-Maybach. But Cadillac sales in China surpassed those in its home market back in 2017, and the numbers have been steadily diverging ever since.