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Renault and AutoVAZ considering joint venture to build electric cars

Renault Fluence ZE Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Since Russia is an oil-producing nation, you might not think that it would be a big promoter of electric cars. For the most part, you'd be right, but Renault's chief operating officer, Patrick Pelata, has said that the French automaker is studying whether or not to produce EVs with AutoVAZ. A big push for the plug-ins comes from the Mayor of Moscow, a city that suffers from severe air pollution problems. The discussions are in the early stages, and so no one should expect ... Read more →

Russian automaker GAZ buys half of Italian diesel specialist VM Motori Xavier Navarro

Yes, the car you see above is the Chrysler Sebring the new Volga Siber and I chose the image to illustrate the efforts of GAZ to become an important automaker. GAZ has bought 50 percent of the ...

Gazprom wants to create a network of natural gas fueling stations Xavier Navarro

Russia's giant natural gas company, Gazprom, has proposed developing a network of compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations for automobiles across Europe. Currently, most Central European ...

PSA and Mitsubishi announce joint plant in Russia Xavier Navarro

PSA and Mitsubishi have officially laid the first foundation stone of their €470 million joint plant in Russia, located in Kaluga, 180km south-west of Moscow. The plant, which is being built on ...

Pre-Euro II vehicles will be banned from Moscow's city center Sebastian Blanco

The Euro 2 emissions standards were put in place for passenger cars in January of 1993. Russia adopted these standards in the fall of 2005, and the limits will soon have a very real impact on vehicles ...

Audi Quattroflex, a high-tech, collapseable design concept vehicle 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In a similar fashion to the Peugeot Moodif concept, I'm not sure what the relationship between Alexey Bykov's Audi Quattroflex design concept, and the Audi motor company is, but its an interesting idea either way. Like the Moodif, the Quattroflex embraces flexibility by allowing the wheelbase to be ...

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