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BMW Group to build new $1B plant in Mexico; production start in 2019

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Production is planned to start in 2019. The large number of international free trade agreements—within the NAFTA area, with the European Union and the MERCOSUR member states, for example—was a decisive factor in the choice of location, BMW said. Motorcycle sales for the same period reached 2,064 units (+16.6%).

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Volkswagen to offer refreshed Tiguan with new plug-in hybrid powertrain in Europe

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In spring 2020, the Volkswagen Tiguan broke the production barrier of six million units, with 910,926 units manufactured in 2019 alone. This versatile vehicle is available for sale in 80% of countries in the world and is the most successful SUV on the market in Europe. Later that year, the first Tiguan came to market.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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as the International Business Machines Corp. Workers punched in and out on a dial recorder, sold by C-T-R’s International Time Recording Co. One came into being in 1900 as the International Time Recording Co. , A highly successful sales executive who had recently spent two decades working at the National Cash Register Co.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

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In early 2019, Reuters estimated that the top 29 global auto manufacturers had already pledged to invest more than $300 billion towards developing electric vehicles (EVs) and supporting technologies including autonomous driving capability. Yet, even with the global EV market share projected to grow from only about 2.6

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Link to the 2019 list (from there you can get to older ones). DISCLAIMERS AND CREDITS The score is multi-faceted rather than representing solely consumer sales. The lion’s share of credit for source data goes as usual, to Jose Pontes and his EV Sales Blog. in 2019 to 4% in 2020. It *is* literal madness to keep doing it.

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