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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

Green Car Congress

The compact SUV EQB will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from Hungary and will complement the plug-in hybrid portfolio consisting of the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake. Factory 56 embodies the future of production at Mercedes-Benz and sets new standards for automobile construction.

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BMW EVs and redesigned ICE fashions supremacy portfolio adjustments

Baua Electric

The V-8 engines within the M60i fashions have 48-volt delicate hybrid era. However an all-electric iX4, in response to the Neu Klasse platform, will advance into manufacturing in Hungary in overdue 2026, with U.S. The usual M Game bundle options an octagonal design component under the kidney grille and aspect apertures.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. He knew very little about making cars but proved to be a quick study.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt.

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