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BMW unveiled the iX3 electricSUV ( earlier post ), offering full electric mobility in a BMW X model. Electric power consumption combined in the WLTP test cycle is 19.5 – 18.5 Market launch will begin in China later in 2020. kWh/100 km. The new iX3 features fifth-generation BMW eDrive technology.
The fullyelectric compact model is the first electricSUV to be produced by Audi in Germany. The Q4 e-tron features a Volkswagen-made modular electric drive matrix (MEB), a highly versatile and variable platform that is suitable for numerous fullyelectric models and offers considerable scope for leveraging synergies.
Due to its modular design, the platform was used to create the Lynk & Co 01, 02, 03 and 05, as well as the pure electric2020 Polestar 2 and Volvo’s first all-electric model, the XC40 Recharge. In June 2020, it had sold a total of 35,708 CMA-based vehicles. Deliveries of the XC40 Recharge will start this fall.
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SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will introduce its first fullyelectric vehicle in 2020. The EV launch comes as part of a product offensive, in which SEAT will launch one new car every six months until 2020. SEAT is going to launch one new car every six months until 2020. —SEAT President Luca de Meo.
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The Audi E-Tron is Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2020. We can’t think of a single fullyelectric vehicle that fits so well into a carmaker’s lineup the way that the E-Tron does.
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Ford management gave an update on its product line plans, touting that by 2020, the company will offer “North America’s freshest lineup among all full-line automakers,” with its average showroom age dropping from 5.7 years as it replaces three-quarters of its lineup and adds four new trucks and SUVs.
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The plant will become the production home to vehicles from the company’s next-generation battery electric flexible architecture. These vehicles will follow the all-electric performance SUV coming in 2020 from Ford’s Cuautitlan, Mexico, plant.
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