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The Detroit News coughs in Beijing's air quality

The city of Beijing has been generating the kinds of headlines that cities usually want no part of. Ahead of the Olympic games, many athletes have been publicly deriding the city's air quality, and rightly so. According to the World Health Organization, the current air pollution in Beijing is at least two to three times higher than levels deemed safe. City officials have been doing what they can with the limited resources and time that is available to them, but Detroit News writer John McCormick, on assignment covering the Beijing Motor Show, ... Read more →

Chery hybrids will make up the majority of Beijing Olympic's official fleet Lascelles Linton

Chinese hybrids are going to make a big splash at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Chery won the contract to provide fifty of the eighty cars in the official traffic service, and all will be hybrids. ...

Audi taking their latest generation engines to the Chinese market Sam Abuelsamid

Audi has decided to launch some of their more advanced and efficient engines in the Chinese market. At an Audi Green Olympics Initiative event in Shanghai, the company announced the addition of the ...

The Detroit News coughs in Beijing's air quality 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The city of Beijing has been generating the kinds of headlines that cities usually want no part of. Ahead of the Olympic games, many athletes have been publicly deriding the city's air quality, and rightly so. According to the World Health Organization, the current air pollution in Beijing is at ...

Chery hybrids will make up the majority of Beijing Olympic's official fleet 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Chinese hybrids are going to make a big splash at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Chery won the contract to provide fifty of the eighty cars in the official traffic service, and all will be hybrids. Dubbed "Olympics Green Messengers," the hybrids include forty Chery BSGs and ten Chery ISGs, which are ...

Audi taking their latest generation engines to the Chinese market 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Audi has decided to launch some of their more advanced and efficient engines in the Chinese market. At an Audi Green Olympics Initiative event in Shanghai, the company announced the addition of the 2.8L FSI V-6 to the A6L and the A8. In the big A8, the 2.8L is rated at 28.3 mpg (US) which is pretty ...


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