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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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He began his career at Audi in Ingolstadt in 1987. Following various management functions at Volkswagen, SEAT and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Thomas became manager of Volkswagen’s Kassel plant in 1998. He held various responsibilities in the export section of Sales at Volkswagen AG from 1983.

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Global Bioenergies beginning road testing with Audi A4 fueled with 34% renewable gasoline blends

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Global Bioenergies is beginning the road-testing phase of renewable gasoline derived from its fermentative isobutene pathway. Global Bioenergies will use an EN228-compliant gasoline blend containing more than 34% of renewable, isobutene-derived, compounds to fuel a car on a circuit. An Audi A4 2.0 Earlier post.)

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In general, the commercial quality timber stand is young, healthy, and vigorously growing. Next is the baseline or business-as-usual carbon storage; i.e., the repeated logging of the forest with no other considerations that commercial. global warming potential for a reference period of 100 years (GWP). hack and squirt).

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Volkswagen Group: 10-million vehicle sold mark for 2014 within reach; China largest single market

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The ten million mark is within reach in spite of all the uncertainties in the global automotive sector ,” Christian Klingler, Group Board Member for Sales, said in Wolfsburg. Audi delivered 1.59 (1.44; +10.1%) million vehicles to customers worldwide in the period to November.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

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One Bloomberg study found 341 miles was the average range desired, while Deloitte Consulting’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study found US consumers want to be able to travel 518 miles on a fully charged battery in a BEV that costs $50,000 or less. Even in the Chinese market where smaller EV sales are booming, profits are not.

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