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Bentley and Little Car Company go beyond vintage with an all-electric, street legal Blower Jnr

Electrek

Bentley Motors and The Little Car Company have teamed up to bring a street legal, 85% scale version of a vehicle that goes beyond classic, beyond vintage, and beyond expensive. Built to Bentley Motors’ quality standards, the all-electric Blower Jnr, inspired by the former’s historic 1929 Car No.

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Alabama, Mississippi to assess oil sands resources in their states

Green Car Congress

Alabama and Mississippi are forming a partnership to further study the oil sands resources in the two states, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced on Saturday while speaking to the Southern States Energy Board.

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Aston Martin to make petrol cars ‘for as long as allowed’

Baua Electric

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda will continue to produce traditional combustion-engine vehicles for as long as legally possible, its boss told UK media this week. Read more Aston Martin has decided to continue manufacturing petrol cars as long as it can after the carmaker delayed the arrival of its first ever electric vehicle.

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Volkswagen again reaffirms 20 new PEV models coming across the Group; MEB development

Green Car Congress

Digitalization and the field of mobility services in particular offer high earnings potential, said Müller, adding that the Group will soon form a legally independent, Group-wide company to promote business in the mobility services of the future with the necessary speed, entrepreneurial focus and the required agility. billion in total.

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Volkswagen Group launching major electro-mobility campaign in China; $25B on new vehicles, technologies and plants up to 2018

Green Car Congress

Furthermore, the Bentley Hybrid Concept opens a window on the broad-ranging potential of hybrid technology. 17 Group models already meet the updated legal requirements set by the Chinese authorities to qualify as “especially energy-efficient vehicles.”. Earlier post.). All these vehicles are highly efficient and eco-friendly.

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

Cars That Think

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. The Ferrari hybrid, for its part, still wails like a La Scala tenor to an emotional, 8,000-rpm peak.

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3 Scenarios That Would Make An EV Ineligible For the Federal EV Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Low-volume, luxury/premium vehicles: In theory these would include some models from Porsche, Bentley, Range Rover, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and others — but many of the EV models from these brands would likely exceed the MSRP caps anyway.