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SEAT to launch 6 electric and plug-in hybrid models, develop smaller version of MEB for lower-cost EVs

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For the first time in the history of the company, SEAT will collaborate with the Volkswagen brand to develop a new vehicle platform—a smaller version of the Modular Electric Drive Toolkit (MEB) on which multiple vehicles of the size of around four meters in length by different brands, SEAT among them, will be made.

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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

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“Sand Job” takes the presenters to the remote and little-viewed country of Mauritania, located in the northeast corner of Africa southwest of Algeria. Renamed Dakar, from 2009 to 2019 the race ran in South America. & The real race requires meticulous off-road driving preparation and heavily modified vehicles of 4x4 persuasion.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. Mali was a conflict zone, so he moved on to Algeria, but he lacked a work permit, and employers would underpay him or fail to pay him altogether. But that was an unusual year. million people.

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