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The end of production of the Golf Variant concludes the Volkswagen Zwickau plant’s 116-year history of building combustion engine vehicles. The last model with a combustion engine—a seventh-generation Golf R Estate with 2.0-liter gasoline engine—left the assembly line on Friday at the Zwickau car factory. Going forward, only electric models of Volkswagen and in future also of the sister brands Audi and Seat will be produced in Zwickau.

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JUNE 27, 2020

The eagerly anticipated premiere event for the Lordstown Endurance electric pickup prototype held Thursday revealed very little new information about the product. Instead, the event included an aspect that Silicon Valley—or Detroit, usually—likes to keep out of its technology and vehicle events: having them become overtly political.

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JUNE 27, 2020

The first electric school bus in Poland will carry children to classes in Godzianów near ?ód?. The purchase of the electric school bus was subsidized by NFO?iGW (the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management). Solaris will supply the electric bus to the Municipality of Godzianów in October this year. “Kangaroo: A safe and environmentally friendly way to school” is a project of the NFO?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2020

Which carmaker ranked last in a leading study of new-vehicle quality? Why is it that one company plans to use battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell technologies together? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 26, 2020. Ford revealed the next generation of the Ford F-150.

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JUNE 27, 2020

2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. The average CO 2 emissions from new vans also increased slightly.

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JUNE 27, 2020

Three UC Riverside engineers have received a $1.2-million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new generation of energy-efficient, energy-elastic, and real-time-aware GPUs suitable for use in resource-constrained environments such as emerging embedded and autonomous systems, including aerial drones and autonomous vehicles. The three Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering faculty members receiving the award are Daniel Wong, Hyoseung Kim, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, all of

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