Chinese firm BYD Auto is aiming to bring at least one electric vehicle to North America by 2011 or 2012, and is considering building an assembly plant in the United States, it said Monday at the Detroit auto show.
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GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner has announced that LG Chem's US subsidiary Compact Power Inc., based in Troy, Mich., will build battery packs for Volt prototype vehicles until GM's own battery facility is operational.
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The New Zealand new vehicle market started strongly last year, but the economic winds of change started to blow from mid-year, and every month from July onwards saw a year on year decline on the equivalent month in 2007, an automakers trade group said.
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Opel could receive liquidity guarantees as part of the planned EUR100 billion rescue fund for German companies.
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Fiat group and Fiat Group Automobiles executive Luca De Meo has resigned, a UK spokesman confirmed.
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AvtoVAZ has reported that its car sales fell 6% last year 622,000 units.
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Mercedes-Benz's Smart city car unit is showing the next generation prototype of its Fortwo electric drive vehicle at the Detroit show.
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Toyota introduced its third-generation Prius at the Detroit auto show with an extensively re-engineered hybrid drivetrain.
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Kia puts the Soul back in Motown with its Soul'ster pick-up concept
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Maserati's latest speed demon, the Quattroporte Sport GT S will go on sale this spring, the company said at the car's debut on Monday at the Detroit auto show.
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SAIC came under increasing pressure on Monday to save Ssangyong from bankruptcy after union workers authorised a strike, if necessary.
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Bentley will accelerate plans to introduce models which can run on biofuels by launching its first such vehicle at the Geneva motor show next March.
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Car sales growth in China slowed to a single-digit rate last year for the first time in a decade as the economy decelerated in the second half.
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General Motors stage-managed chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner's Detroit show keynote address with the same sort of carefully-vetted 'supporters' waving banners for the TV cameras seen at presidential campaign stops in the US last year.
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The new Chevrolet Spark, based on the Beat concept shown at the 2007 Detroit motor show, will make its debut at the Geneva motor show in March before going on sale in the UK and the rest of Europe next year.
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Hardest hit of all the Detroit Three, and with a US$4bn federal loan just banked, Chrysler's Detroit Show presence was distinctly low-key, a long way from last year when the new Dodge Ram truck was launched with the 'help' - and the odd bit of embarrassing behaviour - of a herd of cattle outside the Cobo Hall.
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Despite the credit crisis raging outside, the atmosphere was upbeat at the Ford press conference in Detroit.
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General Motors is assuming this year will be no better than the last, its 'product czar' said in Detroit.
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