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VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid
The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many

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Volkswagen has recently announced some pretty ambitious goals: it's looking to have 300,000 of the cars it sells yearly--3% of global deliveries--be electric by 2018. It's seeking to surpass Toyota as the world's largest automaker by the same time.

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Most of the excitement at Geneva this year didn't come from the announcement of new production mode

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I'm a big fan of Robert Llewellyn's Carpool show.

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This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the

Mountain of road salt, Toronto.

I know what you're thinking. That's a lot of hyphens in the headline.

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At the 2010 Geneva auto show (from whence I'm reporting), Ford took the opportunity to announce its plans for moving electric vehicles to market in Europe.

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If you were, say, a cave dweller, or this guy, and you were let loose in the Geneva Motor Show, you'd likely make some pretty interesting (and incorrect) inferences about the current state of the car world.

VW Could be Global EV Leader?
Last night, in the runup to the first day at the Geneva Auto show, Volkswagen unveiled its electric vehicle strategy for the next 8 years. The plan, announced by the company's chairman Dr.