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  • BMW ActiveE electric car production line, Leipzig, Germany

    However green cars are able to get, the process of building thousands of them every year still isn't particularly environmentally friendly. The manufacturers are doing all they can to improve this. GM's Detroit-Hamtramck factory that produces the Chevrolet Volt is equipped with several solar panel arrays to help power the factory, and now BMW has announced plans to build four wind turbines at its Leipzig factory in Germany. The new wind turbines are expected to be in use by 2013 and will generate the electricity to help produce 740 BMWs per day. The factory already produces some of BMW's...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt
    Video: See The Chevrolet Volt Built In Under Two Minutes

    Ahh, the beauty of time-lapse video. The technology allows us to see the construction of the new 2011 Chevrolet Volt, from beginning to end, in less than two minutes, from when the first few pieces of metal and welded together to the point where the cars are driven off the production line. The...

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