Frankfurt Motor Show
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VW showed an all-new electric vehicle, the E-Up! Concept, at Frankfurt yesterday, indicating strongly that the car will be very close to the production model we’ll see in 2013. The 81 PS E-Up! has a top speed of 84 mph and a range of 80 miles.
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VW and Lichtblick plan to install miniature gas-fired power plants in homes
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One of the most visually distinctive cars on show at Frankfurt on the opening day of the world’s most important car show was Peugeot’s BB1 concept, a car just 2.5 metres long yet capable of seating four people
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One of the highlights of IAA 2009 is Audi’s E-tron, an electric Quattro with 230 kW and a stunning 4,500 Nm of torque. The car’s lithium-ion battery holds 42.4 kilowatt hours, enough for 250 km.
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Electric vehicles of small proportions are beginning to emerge as the theme of this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Renault showed a comprehensive range of electric vehicles dubbed the Z.E. range, which it will begin selling in 2010
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The pick of the first morning of the Frankfurt Motor Show was the MINI Coupe Concept, one of just two previously unannounced cars we’ve seen so far, the other being the equally minimalist MINI Roadster Concept.
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VW rocked the first day of the Frankfurt Motor Show with a carbon fibre, half width, 1-litre hybrid electric diesel tandem named the L1. When it goes into production in 2013, it will have a consumption of 1.38 l/100 km.
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Renault will show four new electric vehicle concepts at next week’s Frankfurt Motor Show, previewing its new Zero Emission product range. No details are available, but sketches indicate one concept will be a small and narrow single seat 4-wheeler
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It may not be identical but the all-new Ford C-MAX, which will make its global debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, clearly takes its design cues from the stunning iosis MAX concept car unveiled at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
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Due for its first public showing at the Frankfurt motor show is the new Rolls-Royce Ghost incorporates a plethora of complex electronic aids and safety systems designed to operate as one, imperceptibly to the driver.
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How do you better a car that is still selling strongly after more than two million units. We’ll see at Frankfurt, but Citroen's new ‘Visiodrive’ C3 certainly looks good with its receding windscreen, vast interior space and astonishing road behaviour.
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Hyundai is preparing for the first showing of the ix-Metro and i10 Electric at Frankfurt. The ix-Metro is a sub-B segment Hybrid CUV and the i10 Electric is a 49kW electric vehicle with a range of 100 miles and top speed of over 80 mph.
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