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Stefan Jacoby, CEO of Volkswagen America, on VW's Electric Car Strategy (Part I)

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Photo via USA Today

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.

8 Electric Concept Cars Shaking Up the Auto Industry Right Now

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

Mercedes Unveils Tree of Innovation at Oscars

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Source: Merkley and Partners

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

The All-Electric, 3-Wheeled One-Seater: Honda Reveals the 3R-C (Video)

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

Ford to Launch 5 New Electric Vehicles by 2013

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Photo via Autoblog Green

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.

Hybrid Cars, EV Concepts, Justin Timberlake Dominate Geneva Motor Show

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Hybrid Porsche. Photo via Carmaker

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.

Volkswagen Plans to Sell 300,000 Electric Cars a Year by 2018

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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.