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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Audi Brussels to produce exclusively e-tron quattro SUV, battery packs; A1 production moving to Spain

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The Audi Q3, currently produced in Spain, will be built in Győr (Hungary) in the future. The model rotation will benefit all the sites of its global production network, Audi Chairman Rupert Stadler said. The new model distribution will enhance our production efficiency and strengthen all of the sites involved. Rupert Stadler.

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Apollo Tyres celebrates Vredestein acquisition with new tulip variant | Autocar Professional

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In 2015, Apollo Tyres expanded its agricultural product line with the launch of the Traxion Harvest, and with new variants of the Traxion Versa and Endurion.

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JATO Dynamics: in decline of Euro new car market, electrified vehicles increase share to almost 13%

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This equates to a decline of 7.0%, as last month saw the lowest number of registrations since 2015, when only 955,113 units were registered. —Felipe Munoz, global analyst at JATO Dynamics. Their global sales totaled 18.85 This aligns to the negative results seen in January when volume fell by 7.6%. to 2,194,706 units.

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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

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—Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. Globally, Europe was the world’s third-largest car market behind China and the US. Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Protecting highly important floodplain habitats in Hungary within the Tisza Floodplain. WWF Hungary. Grant Category.

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Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant to produce compact electric EQ vehicles; 3rd center of competence for EQ models in Germany

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Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. The decision is based on a declaration of intent, which the company has set up with the works council. Ten billion euros (US$11.2

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