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New York 2011: Nissan Leaf "World Car often the Year"
The Nissan Leaf is "World Car of the Year 2011". In the context of the New York International Auto Show announced the jury's decision to put the electric vehicle through, inter alia, the BMW 5 Series and the Audi A8.

Lamborghini Murcielago The replacement has finally arrived, many know him as Jack others think it is called throwing, but the company has not yet confirmed the name. However, already here and we can see, thanks to some spy photos with little camouflage and in all its glory.

These pictures were ever published in the social network Facebook, which were taken in an exclusive event restricted to a privileged few, and we have to thank one of them could not resist the urge to take some photos of new sports popular brand.

Montezemolo is becoming stranger than ever, now wants to have three cars for the Ferrari F1, and not only that, but it has been proposed that only cars "of the good teams, so that only good teams make money, and all pilots have material to compete.

If we see in terms of advertising, the idea might not sound so discriminatory and ridiculous, because we have to focus on the F1 or different skills in reality only serve to generate more publicity for big brands.

Ferrari aims 3 cars in F1

Besides wanting to incorporate three car teams such as McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes or any other, has also mentioned that the third party would be operated by satellite, and did not stop there, Luca pointed to two teams in particular: the Chip Ganassi, and Penske.

BMW will start from 2013 in China, the mass production of an electric car, developed together with joint venture partner Brillinace. BMW announced this yesterday, CEO Dr. Norbert Reithofer during a visit by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, in Munich. The guest was briefed by a delegation including the Mini E, the BMW Active E and the technology of the future electric vehicles. BMW wants to work closely with the e-mobility with the Chinese government.

It was developed in cooperation with Tongji University in Shanghai in the first Sino-German research project for electric vehicles, an electrically-powered BMW 5 Series in the long version. Beginning of the year will be tested in addition, the Mini E also in Beijing and Shenzhen. This also applies to the BMW Active E, a pure electric vehicle based on the BMW 1 Series, which this year is in China for use.

Ford yesterday in advance of the Auto Show in Detroit presents the Ford Focus Electric. The vehicle is to be introduced in the second half of 2012 in North America and comes to Europe. With technical details of the Ford holds back a bit. Thus, the range is specified for the time being to be sufficient for daily driving habits "normal U.S. and European users. What is certain is that coupled with a 1-speed electric motor is designed for a speed of 136 mph.

A complete charge cycle of articles for the American market models will accept a 240-volt charging station only three to four hours. supplied as standard is a 120-volt cable for the household connection. An intelligent energy management based on Microsoft also charges the battery just to request if the current is very cheap.