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Volvo models across Europe to warn each other of slippery roads and hazards

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Volvo Cars is making its industry-first connected safety technology available across Europe as another step in its ambitions to improve traffic safety. Next week the features become available to Volvo drivers across Europe. They come as standard on all new model year 2020 Volvos and can be retrofitted on selected earlier models.

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Volkswagen ID.7 makes its world premiere

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7 electric sedan will be launched first in Europe and China in the Fall of 2023, North America is scheduled to follow in 2024. 7 also makes its debut as the first Volkswagen with a standard augmented reality head-up display. 7 for Europe and North America in the electric mobility plant in Emden. Vehicle and swarm data merge.

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Audi A4 and A5 now available to order as g-tron in Europe; Audi e-gas for 3 years as standard

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Audi’s two latest natural-gas alternatives in the midsize category—the new A4 Avant g-tron ( earlier post ) and the new A5 Sportback g-tron—are now available for order in Europe. Over the standard cycle the A4 Avant g-tron with S tronic uses 3.8 mph) (A4 Avant g-tron: 223 km/h (138.6 TFSI engine developing 170 hp.

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BMW introducing new X5 plug-in hybrid in Europe in 2019, US in 2020

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BMW will introduce a new X5 plug-in hybrid, the BMW X5 xDrive45e iPerformance, in Europe in 2019, to be followed by a US model in 2020. US specific vehicle information will be finalized closer to market launch in 2020 as a 2021 model year offering.). The top speed of the BMW X5 xDrive45e iPerformance is 235 km/h (146 mph).

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Mercedes-Benz receives world’s first internationally valid system approval for Level 3 conditionally automated driving

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As a result, the first customers will be able to buy an S-Class with DRIVE PILOT the first half of 2022, enabling them to drive in conditionally automated mode at speeds of up to 60 km/h (37 mph) in heavy traffic or congested situations on suitable stretches of highway in Germany. accidents or roadworks) from a digital HD map.

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Audi introduces new A4 Avant g-tron; Audi e-gas offered as standard

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Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. mph) in just 8.5

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2014 Sprinter van for US standard with new 2.1L diesel; new driver assistance features

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The new MY2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van for the US now features a 2.1L, 4-cylinder diesel with a t-speed automatic transmission as standard. The proximity warning assistant calculates the necessary safe distance on the basis of this information. 20 mph (32 km/h). 2014 Sprinter. Click to enlarge. European powertrains.

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