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Tesla Motors’ Model S is the ideal luxury passenger vehicle, according to research and consulting firm AutoPacific, Inc. Tesla’s popularity points to a shift in concerns for today’s drivers and further cements its growing reputation among luxury consumers as they adapt environmental and technologically-minded values. The 2016 Ideal Vehicle Awards are based on responses from over 65,000 owners of 2015
Read moreVolvo Car Group plans to sell a model able to pilot itself down the highway by 2021, joining BMW AG in a promise of self-driving technology within five years. Volvo will start testing vehicles with advanced self-driving features next year in Sweden’s Gothenburg, London and China, eventually putting about 100 test cars on the road in each country with ordinary
Read moreSome of Europe’s largest truck makers have been hit with a record fine of €2.93bn after operating a price-fixing cartel for 14 years. Margrethe Vestager, EU competition commissioner, said the companies “colluded on the pricing and on passing on the costs for meeting environmental standards to customers” over a “very long time”, writes Peter Campbell. The companies are Iveco, DAF,
Read moreThe approval of the third Volvo base faces a countdown. Reporters learn that the “V auto project” base located in Luqiao, Taizhou, will be the third domestic base of Volvo, after Daqing and Chengdu. The construction of Taizhou base was started last year, which will mainly produce “L” series new brand models based on the CMA platform, by Geely and
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