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Daimler JV Beijing Benz Automotive named Factory of the Year by Produktion magazine

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BBAC, a joint venture between Daimler and its Chinese partner BAIC Motor, has been producing Mercedes-Benz passenger cars since 2005 and engines since 2013. All production practices at BBAC maintain Daimler’s rigorous and unified global standards. In 2016, more than two-thirds of the Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold in China were made at BBAC.

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2013 Audi Q5 Hybrid To Be Pricey 'Performance Hybrid'?

Green Car Reports

The 2013 Audi Q5 Hybrid crossover has had a long gestation, but reports say it will finally reach the U.S. Now a report in Automobile magazine suggests that the 2013 Audi Q5. market this fall. On sale in Europe for a year now, the hybrid Q5 was originally launched at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.

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2013 Tesla Model S Electric Car: Consumer Reports Still In Love

Green Car Reports

One year and 11,380 miles after taking delivery of its Model S, the magazine is still raving about its battery-electric luxury sport sedan. Consumer Reports'' love affair with the Tesla Model S electric car is proving to be more than just a casual fling.

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What 2013 Looked Like For Greener Cars, Back In 1988

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They get it wrong sometimes too, and you'd have found a mixture of both in the April 3, 1988 issue of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, which peered 25 years into the future--to the year we find ourselves in now. The rate at which technology develops makes predicting the future incredibly difficult, but people get it right sometimes.

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2012 Tesla Model S Beats 2013 BMW M5 In Straight-Line Drag Race

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Automobile Magazine’s Ezra Dyer. There’s no denying that electric cars have lots of torque from standstill, meaning they can out-accelerate most cars in the stop-light derby to 30 mph. But what happens beyond that?

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1.0-liter EcoBoost powering 1 in 5 new Fords sold in 1H 2014 in Europe

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liter EcoBoost vehicles, compared with 104,000 during the first six months of 2013—an increase of more than 15%. Fords 1.0-liter liter EcoBoost engine is powering 1 in 5 of the new Fords sold in Europe in the first half of this year, according to Ford figures. From January through June 2014, Ford sold approximately 120,000 1.0-liter

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Tesla Model S Electric Car Versus. Ford Model T? A History Lesson

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Well, give Car and Driver points for high concept: In picking a car to test against a 2013 Tesla Model S luxury electric sedan, the magazine chose.a 1915 Ford Model T. Yep, the most advanced, most talked-about battery-electric vehicle on the planet was pitted against the car that put the world on wheels a century ago.

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