But the automaker is an old hand at this stuff relatively speaking: Since 2007 it's sold 2.5 million cars and trucks equipped with Sync which it with Microsoft.

但是比较而言汽车制造商是这方面的老手：由与2007年销售了250万辆装有和微软公司共同开发的Sync系统的汽车和卡车。

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But as the hybrid gives way to the all-electric vehicle-at least in the eyes of optimists-the German automaker aims to be at the front of the pack.

但随着混合动力让位于全电动机车——至少在乐观主义者眼中——这个德国的汽车制造商却旨在成为这个行业的先导。

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That news came a day after the automaker halted all but one of its Japanese assembly lines, a move that idled tens of thousands of workers across the country.

在此消息发布的前一天，除一条生产线照常运转之外，丰田位于日本的所有生产线全部停产一天。 与此同时，全国数以万计的丰田工人暂停工作。

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Big incentives in August helped give Chrysler a decent sales bounce, but the automaker still has a 76-day supply of vehicles on dealer lots, well above the industry average of 60 days.

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An electric version of the iQ city car will arrive in Japan (as the eQ) and the US (as the iQ EV) this December, but the automaker is significantly scaling back its 2010 promises of several thousand cars sold per year to just 100 fleet-oriented vehicles.

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But Shladover wondered if the automaker was actually preparing customers to get used to cars that increasingly drive themselves.

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