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Audi unveils redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for 2016 season

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Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. The FIA WEC regulations have been providing automobile manufacturers with incentives to build increasingly efficient race cars since 2014. The current V6 TDI consumes 32.4%

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Colorado releases plan to support EVs on state’s highways, accelerate EV adoption

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Colorado currently ranks 8 th in the US for highest EV market share, according to the ZEV Sales Dashboard published by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Over the first eight months of 2017, sales of such vehicles were up 73% over the same period in 2016.

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Tesla’s war against direct sales wages on with big win in Virginia

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State laws in Virginia indicate that automobile manufacturers must sell their vehicles through independent franchised dealerships, except when there is no dealership available in a community to offer a company’s vehicles “in a matter consistent with the public interest,” the report said.

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Borgward to build manufacturing facility in Bremen; all-electric-drive Borgward BX7 first model; Industry 4.0

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The Miyun plant is one of the most modern automobile manufacturing facilities in the world in terms of production technology, quality management, environmental compatibility, logistics, and the social aspects for the Borgward employees there, the company says. Between 50 and 100 jobs will be created in Bremen during the initial phase.

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NTSB: driver errors, overreliance on automation, lack of safeguards, led to fatal Tesla crash

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The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a truck driver’s failure to yield the right of way and a Tesla driver’s inattention due to overreliance on vehicle automation are the probable cause of the fatal 7 May 2016, crash near Williston, Florida. Earlier post.).

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Honda targeting 2/3 of unit sales from PHEVs, HEVs and ZEVs by ~2030; PHEVs the core of electrification

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After that, Honda will make a plug-in hybrid type available for the major models and increase the number of models sequentially. Honda will begin sales in Japan of the Clarity Fuel Cell in March 2016. Hachigo is initiating a major organizational change in April.

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Audi, BMW and Daimler agree with Nokia on joint acquisition of HERE digital mapping business; swarm intelligence for new information density

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The acquisition is intended to secure the long term availability of HERE’s products and services as an open, independent and value-creating platform for cloud-based maps and other mobility services accessible to all customers from the automotive industry and other sectors.

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