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JLR sees U.S. as key to good fortune for reborn Jaguar logo

Baua Electric

LONDON – Jaguar Land Rover sees the U.S. JLR is overhauling Jaguar through decreasing its type length and pushing the logo upper upmarket to compete with Bentley and Porsche rather of Mercedes-Benz and BMW. So, it’s reasonable to assume there is a lot of work to build that brand equity,” Mardell stated. Ford paid $2.5

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Can the UK lead the green car charge? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the news as the Government embarks on the Building Britain’s Future scheme – a plan for recovery based on low carbon, high technology industries, products and services. So is Britain really in a position to be a green car leader?

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. Ten- and 12-cylinder engines are on a virtual death watch, with V-12 purveyors like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, and BMW widely expected to eliminate these longtime markers of automotive prestige.

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Manganese Could Be the Secret Behind Truly Mass-Market EVs

Cars That Think

At Volkswagen’s live-streamed “Power Day” in March —a seeming hat-tip to Tesla’s “Battery Day” spectacle —CEO Herbert Diess set off his own Muskian frenzy by announcing VW would build a half-dozen gigafactories in Europe by 2030, with a total of 240 gigawatt-hours of capacity. VW is already building EV factories in Tennessee and China.

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