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UK's 2014 Next Green Car Awards fetes VW e-Up!, Tesla Model S

They like the Tesla Model S across the Pond, too. The California-made electric vehicle was one of about a dozen models given props by the UK's Next Green Car Awards. And the prizes ran the gamut between conventional, diesel, plug-in and battery-electric powertrains because who doesn't like variety?

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Volkswagen shows off e-Golf and e-Up! before Frankfurt

The power of ions has overcome two models in the Volkswagen range, the resulting e-Golf and e-Up slated for world premieres at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The e-Up uses a 60-kW motor producing 155 pound-feet of torque, gets from 0-to-62 miles per hour in 12.4 seconds an on to a t

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Volkswagen will enter E-Up!, XL1 in this month's Silvretta E-Car Rally

The distance between Volkswagen's home country of Germany and Austria's Silvretta Electric Car Rally isn't that far, so the German automaker will use the event to promote its upcoming plug-in vehicles. VW will enter both the E-Up! battery-electric and the XL1 plug-in diesel hybrid concept in the rally, which takes place later this month. In 2011, the

Spy Shots: Volkswagen Up! caught in Death Valley

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Report: VW resurrects Lupo nameplate for the Up! city car

We'd already heard that we wouldn't be getting the conventionally-powered version of Volkswagen's city car, the Up! Now we hear, per Autocar, that it won't be called the Up!, it will be called Lupo. The Lupo, a nameplate known throughout Europe until it ceased production in 2005, wa

Report: 2013 Volkswagen E-Up! city car headed for select U.S. markets

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Volkswagen presents the first battery-powered Golf Blue-e-motion

On May 1 in Berlin, Germany transport minister Dr. Peter Ramsauer went for a drive in the first Volkswagen Golf blue-e-motion with VW board member Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg. The new battery-powered Golf is the first of a fleet of 500 that will be deployed starting next year in custo

Volkswagen releases details of new lithium ion e-Golf, Jetta plug-in coming

Today in Berlin, Volkswagen unveiled the first of 500 electric drive Golfs produced for a consumer test that starts next year. The battery powered Golf was shown at the launch of the National Platform for Electric Mobility, a public-private partnership to promote electric vehicles in Germany.

Volkswagen announces electrification plan, 500 Golf EVs in 2011

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Confirmed: Tesla Co-Founder Eberhard working with Volkswagen

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REPORT: Skoda considering electric car based on VW Up!

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Volkswagen hedges battery bets, looks to form JV with Varta

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REPORT: Larger VW E-Up! could come to the States

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Frankfurt 2009: Volkswagen calls E-Up! Concept "Beetle of the 21st Century"

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