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The 2024 Buick Regal (CN) Leaked: Do We Miss It Yet?

The Truth About Cars

The Buick Regal may have been removed from our market. It wasn’t even terrible to look at — mixing design trends that had been synonymous with Buick since the 1990s with a tinge of Audi. Buick is embracing some of the industry’s general design trends here. For all intents and purposes, Buick has become a Chinese brand.

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Report: Ford CEO Says China Strategy Changing

The Truth About Cars

Ford Motor Company is tweaking plans in China and seeking to turn around financial losses after five years of lackluster sales within the region. Ford has introduced new models specifically designed to cater to Chinese customers. Buick and Cadillac) have even done quite well for themselves. Some brands (e.g.

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Can General Motors bounce back? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The beleaguered automotive industry in the United States has taken its fair share of knocks over the last 12 months but none were more shocking than when one of the oldest and most well-respected brands in motoring – General Motors (GM) – slipped into bankruptcy earlier this year. How GM hopes to recover. Faye Sunderland.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

According to SupChina.com , the 10 largest EV producers in China based on domestic sales are: Tesla BYD SAIC Motor SAIC Volkswagen SAIC-GM-Wuling NIO Xpeng Li Auto WM Motor Geely. And while Tesla has emerged as the largest seller of EVs in China, a number of startups and joint ventures with western automakers are growing quickly.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Alpha Ace Coupe – imagine a full-sized Aussie Racing Car but with an electric motor instead of a bike engine. There’s also a four-door Superwolf in the pipeline. Subscribe now!

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV: Chevy’s lowest-priced electric car gets a big brother

Charged EVs

But the EUV first went into production last year in China—as a Buick. Other models will follow—General Motors has promised to sell a dozen or more EVs in North America by 2025. Two BEV2 variants: Buick Velite 7, Bolt EUV. US drivers see the Bolt EUV as a larger, better-equipped version of Chevy’s first modern electric car.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

That’s three times the output of the Buick-based Rover V-8 that first powered these trucks in 1979, and nine times that of the anemic 50-hp gasoline engine the Rover boasted at its birth, in 1948. For this application, the motor is pushed forward and rotated 90 degrees to drive both front and rear Rover axles, with the torque evenly split.