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The Detroit News coughs in Beijing's air quality

Posted Apr 23rd 2008 at 3:07PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski

Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, China

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, reports that there is a long way to go before things are truly cleaned up.

[Source: The Detroit News]

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Tags: beijing, beijing 2008, beijing motor show, beijing pollution, beijing-2008, beijing-air, beijing-olympics, beijing-pollution, beijing2008, beijingautoshow, beijingmotorshow, BeijingPollution, olympics

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

Posted Feb 20th 2008 at 8:14AM by Lascelles Linton

Filed under: Hybrid, China



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 based on the Chery A5 sedan (pictured).

We were clued in that hybrids would play a significant role in the Olympics (a giant advertising event) when GM said it would introduce the Buick LaCrosse Hybrid at the games. Considering China is literally part-owner of all the country's automakers that hope to market hybrids around the world soon, it's no surprise GM is going to be upstaged by Chinese hybrids when the opening ceremonies take place August 8.

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[Source: Auto Spectator]

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Audi taking their latest generation engines to the Chinese market

Posted Nov 13th 2007 at 12:32PM by Sam Abuelsamid

Filed under: Audi



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 impressive for such a large car. In the next few years they also plan to introduce their TDI diesel engines in the Chinese market. In the meantime they will also be supplying 1,000 cars with the FSI V-6 and smaller turbo-charged TFSI engines for use as VIP shuttles during next summers Olympic Games in Beijing.

[Source: Audi]


Tags: a8, audi, audi-a8, audi-china, beijing-olympics, china, fsi, olympics

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