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Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors Ltd. to explore strategic alliance for joint development projects; ŠKODA to lead

Green Car Congress

Our aim with the envisaged strategic partnership with Tata Motors is to lay the foundations in the Group and the brands that will enable us to offer customer-oriented mobility solutions in the emerging, fast-growing automobile markets, as elsewhere. That is why we are systematically pursuing our regional growth strategy. billion in 2015-16.

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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

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With electromobility, the automobile industry faces a fundamental technological upheaval.Our path leads away from oil, to emission-free mobility, and the electric car plays a key role.CO VW, Daimler subsidiary Daug and Varta developed a NimH battery in the early 90s, and the VW group put the Audi duo hybrid on the road in 1997.

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

New Zealand is the only OECD country without emissions standards, besides Russia. It does not make sense to align our standards to a market that has weak voluntary standards and does not produce automobiles. Dean Sheed, General Manager, Audi NZ. This would make achieving emissions reductions from transport extremely difficult.

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Volkswagen Group global deliveries up 4.8% in 1st 3 quarters to 7M vehicles

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from 479,000 in 2012, of which 226,100 (-3.7%) were handed over in Russia, the region’s largest single market. Audi delivered 1.18 compared with the same prior-year period, handing over 114,400 automobiles. The Group delivered 470,200 units to customers in the Central and Eastern Europe region in the period to September (down 2.0%

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

Cars That Think

Others like Audi , Daimler and VW have stated they are now stopping the development of new internal combustion engines altogether. Drivetrains Force Hard Choices "We are in the midst of a revolution, the ongoing digital redesign of the historically analog automobile," says Venkat N. Modify ICE or Go EV?