Frankfurt Motor Show
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With European prestige-car makers scrambling to respond to the unexpected and disruptive arrival of electric-car company Tesla Motors, a host of luxury car brands have been showing off their electric concepts. The coming Frankfurt Motor Show will see design studies by Audi and Porsche, possibly others, that point toward future all-electric vehicles with ranges of 250 miles or more. And British maker Jaguar Land Rover is determined to keep up with its higher-volume German competitors. DON'T MISS: Mercedes Confirms All-Electric Luxury Car To Fight Tesla 'Very Soon' So the company--which sells...
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Green Cars At Frankfurt Auto Show: Production, Concept Cars Previewed
These are the green production and concept cars that will debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
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Dormant German Borgward Brand To Relaunch As Plug-In Hybrid SUV For China
Borgward will debut its plug-in hybrid SUV at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
Stephen Edelstein -
BMW's Next Two Plug-In Hybrids Officially Revealed, Only One For U.S.
BMW will unveil its 330e and 225xe plug-in hybrids at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
Stephen Edelstein -
Peugeot Fractal Electric-Car Concept: 3D Printing, Audio Tech Of Future
Peugeot's Frankfurt Motor Show concept highlights audio technology and 3D printing.
Stephen Edelstein -
Tesla-Targeting Audi e-tron quattro Electric SUV Concept Teased Ahead Of Frankfurt
The Audi e-tron quattro concept will preview the Q6 e-tron electric SUV due in 2018.
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The Audi Q6 SUV could appear as a concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2013 Euro Honda Civic Is Complete Tease
The 2013 European Honda Civic Hatchback was unveiled earlier this week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Sleeker, more aggressive and more practical, it showcases Honda’s ninth revision of this gas-sipping compact. Sadly, just like its predecessor, the 2006-2011 Honda Civic hatchback...
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Mercedes-Benz B-Class E-Cell Plus Extended Range Electric Vehicle
Mercedes will soon join General Motors and Fisker in offering an extended range electric vehicle. Shown as a concept in Frankfurt, the B-Class E-Cell Plus will see production in the near future.
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2012 Mia Electric Microbus: First Drive Report
Sometimes a clever inventor or a team of engineers changes the way we think about an appliance or a concept we’ve lived with for years -- producing a revolutionary new design that makes us wonder how we ever lived without it. But sometimes a supposed revolutionary new design is little more...
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Infiniti: We’ll Have An All-Electric Sedan Ready For 2015
Infiniti -- the luxury sister brand of Nissan -- has been joining in the electric car hype at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show with talk of an all-electric subcompact car it will have ready for sometime in 2014. This isn’t the first time Infiniti has talked electric cars. Last year, Infiniti boss...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Brabus AWD Electric Mercedes-Benz E-Class
This year’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show has been heavily dominated by the drive towards greener vehicles, better gas mileage, and zero tailpipe-emissions motoring. So it’s no surprise that German tuning house Brabus has followed the trend set by most of the major automakers attending the...
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The problems with the old Smart Fortwo Electric Drive were fairly easy to work out. It was too slow, had only an average range, took too long to charge and it was too expensive - even when leasing. Smart has taken the car back to the drawing board and fixed all these issues - and given the car a spit and polish in some other areas, too. The revised model was on display at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show and we were there to check it out. Range and performance We've tested the second-generation Fortwo Electric Drive on several occasions, and whilst delivering in some areas, it was a let down in...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Opel RAK e Electric Concept
At this year’s Frankfurt Auto Show there’s a very clear theme among concept cars: ultra-small urban runabouts. Now Opel -- the European arm of General Motors -- has joined Audi, Volkswagen, Smart and many others with its own take on a lightweight electric-powered urban runabout. Called...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2012 Volkswagen Up Family Gallery
Volkswagen has been working hard on the Up minicar since it first debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show, but it has finally unveiled the production version of its gasoline-sipping city car at this year's 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show along with a whole family of concepts based on its tiny frame. The...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2013 Fisker Surf Official Unveiling
The 2012 Fisker Karma extended range electric car (plug-in hybrid) may have been sold on its sexy good looks, and sporty performance -- but now the luxury sedan has a more practical sibling -- the Fisker Surf. Unveiled today at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, the 2013 Fisker Surf is a crossover wagon...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Audi A2 Electric Concept First Pics
Audi has just unveiled its all-electric A2 Concept vehicle at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Placed somewhere between its two-seat electric Urban Concept which we saw yesterday and its A3 hatchback, the four-seat concept is a direct competitor to BMW’s much-anticipated 2014 i3 electric car...
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Audi Urban Concept: Live Photos Of Electric Two-Seater Launch
The 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show officially opens to the press tomorrow, but already the private parties and launch events have started. Sunday night, Audi officially unveiled its pair of two-seat electric concept cars, known jointly as the Urban Concept vehicles. One is a coupe, with a hatch over the...
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Innumerable design studies for a successor to the legendary E-Type Jaguar may finally have reached their conclusion: Jaguar's C-X16 concept sports coupe seems very likely to be built within a few years as the Jaguar XE. But the "production concept" to be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week carries a component the XK-E designers could never have dreamed of: a hybrid-electric powertrain. Better yet, it features a racing-derived "Push To Pass" button that ensures this hybrid will be viewed as more like the Porsche GT3 R Hybrid than the reputedly wimpy (if definitively fuel-efficient)...
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GM's European Arm, Opel, Shows Two-Seat Electric Urban Concept
With the Frankfurt Motor Show launching in less than a week, the concept cars are starting to come thick and fast. The latest is a small two-seat electric urban car from Opel, the premiere European brand operated by General Motors. It's one of several tiny urban electric concepts, joining the Audi...
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Fisker Surf Concept: Preview Of Plug-In Karma Shooting Brake
With Fisker just starting to deliver its first Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedans--no, still not a single road test by any journalist--attention now turns toward the Frankfurt Motor Show. Next week, the company will pull the covers off a concept for what it says will be the next model in the Fisker...
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2011 Audi A2 Electric Car Concept: New Info, Images
Late last week Audi released some teaser sketches of its A2 concept car due at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, now less than a week away. Due to be positioned between the A1 minicar and upcoming Audi A3 Sedan compact car, the new A2 is spiritual successor to the original A2, an aluminum-bodied...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Full Electric Car Preview
We thought the 2011 Geneva Motor Show was one of the best ever for electric cars and green vehicles, but the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, starting in less than a week, is shaping up to be even better. We'll be covering the show in-depth next week, but in the meantime we've rounded up all the electric...
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Audi A2 Concept Electric Car Due At 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
With the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show less than two weeks away the German auto industry is starting to really crank out the concept cars. Latest in the onslaught of new German metal is the Audi A2 concept. If you think the name sounds familiar then you aren't wrong. Audi launched a production A2...
Antony Ingram