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- Audi to Start Electric SUV Production in 2018 in Clean-Car Push – Bloomberg: Audi will start building its first purely electric sport utility vehicle in 2018 in … The Belgian plant will make both the car and its battery, positioning it to …. the yuan has gained 36 percent over the past decade against a Bloomberg…
- Porsche 911 plug-in hybrid under evaluation – Autocar: Hybridisation is necessary to meet increasingly tight CO2 limits; manual gearbox to remain as long as demand continues
- Volkswagen executive committee member says no alternative to CEO Mueller – Reuters: A Volkswagen spokesman said on Tuesday that Mueller had the backing of top players on the supervisory board, dismissing rumours that support for…
- Audi A1 to be built at Seat’s Martorell plant – Autocar: Spanish facility will handle the production of its VW Group stablemate’s smallest model from 2018 Seat has announced that production of the Audi A1 will shift from Audi’s Brussels plant to Seat’s main facility in Martorell, Spain
- Jeep books record year in EMEA – Just-auto: The Jeepbrand enjoyedrecord sales in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) with 117,620 units shifted, up 55.7% in comparison with 2014. There was 26 months of uninterrupted year-over-year growth to the end of December.
- A US driver licence no longer the holy grail – Just-auto: A study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute confirms that learning to drive in the US is longer the rite of passage it was for young people.
- Ford Brings New Diesel SUV to India Amid Anti-Pollution Scrutiny – Bloomberg: Ford Motor Co. will begin sales of its biggest and most expensive SUV model in India on Wednesday, handicapped by a ban on large diesel autos in…
- Thyssenkrupp says upbeat even if China slows further -Sueddeutsche Zeitung – Reuters: BERLIN Jan 20 German industrial group Thyssenkrupp’s business in China will not suffer even if growth in the world’s second-biggest economy were…
- Another European Automaker Has US Emissions Problem of Its Own – Bloomberg: … to stop building some of the light-duty trucks Bloomberg Intelligence analyst … Instead, it earned more than any other automaker by selling vehicles … And GM says its new 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go more than 200…
- Toyota Turns Prius Parts Into Female Manga Characters – WSJ: To promote its new Prius model, Toyota Motor Corp. depicts car innards, such as the hybrid transaxle, as young female manga characters.
- Electric vehicle sales fall far short of Obama goal – Reuters: with gas prices near $2 a gallon – only about 400,000 electric cars have been sold. Last year, sales fell 6 percent over the previous year,…
- Dieselgate – Jail threat for VW & Audi Korea’s MD – Just-auto: The combined market share of Hyundai, Genesis and Kia fell below 70% in the home market last year. And that was for the second year running.