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Stellantis and Toyota Europe expand partnership with new large-size commercial van including electric version

Green Car Congress

Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. The new vehicle marks the third body type under the agreement, completing a full LCV line-up, with compact-, mid- and now also a large-size LCV. Operational excellence is by definition recognized in this expanded deal,” said.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. million units.

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JATO: Euro car market drops 7.9% in June; SUV demand slows; Tesla posts highest market share gain

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The European car market dropped in June 2019 as 1.49 It was the biggest monthly drop so far in 2019, as only four out of the 27 markets included in JATO’s analysis posted growth but counted for a marginal 2.6% As seen in Q1-2019, the brand is posting large increases in its Model 3 deliveries at the end of each quarter.

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Daimler and Geely Holding form global JV for smart; new generation of electric models

Green Car Congress

We will jointly design and develop the next generation of smart electric cars that combine high-quality production and known safety standards for sale both in China and globally. The joint venture is expected to be finalized by the end of 2019. Mercedes-Benz is investing €500 million on the Hambach plant.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. Road Test: 2019 BMW i8 Roadster. Volkswagen Group (which includes VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the U.S.) BMW Takes Middle Path to Electrification ; Road Test: 2014 BMW i3.

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Seres 3: Why this Chinese SUV is the worst EV I’ve driven

EV Central

But its keys were handed to me by Europcar France as my holiday EV rental, in lieu of the Hyundai Kona Electric I’d ordered. But if the brand survives in France for that amount of time is another matter. Seres is a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant Dongfeng, and the Seres 3 has sold in China as the Fengon E3 since 2019.

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Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Cars That Think

While the company was originally founded to produce open-source AI systems, its leaders determined in 2019 that it was too dangerous to continue releasing its GPT systems’ source code and model weights (the numerical representations of relationships between the nodes in its artificial neural network) to the public.