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Revving China's auto industry
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:33 AM EST
Article Source: BBC Newsadvertisement
In one way, it is a rather ordinary compact saloon car, though it did have exceptional acceleration when I put my foot down zooming round the factory grounds in Shenzhen, the vast new Chinese city just north of Hong Kong.
This is a plug-in electric car, hence the acceleration, but when the electric battery runs out after 80 miles (128km), the petrol engine switches in seamlessly.
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