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  2. Commission v Germany (C-112/05) - Wikipedia

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    Commission v Germany (2007) C-112/05 is an EU law case, relevant for UK enterprise law, concerning European company law.Following a trend in cases such as Commission v United Kingdom, [1] and Commission v Netherlands, [2] it struck down public oversight, through golden shares of Volkswagen by the German state of Lower Saxony.

  3. Reichsautobahn - Wikipedia

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    German manufacturers produced touring buses for the non-car-owning public, [92] and the Volkswagen (then called the KdF-Wagen, Strength Through Joy car, for the Nazi recreation organization) was developed and marketed in association with the autobahn to promote car ownership; Hitler first publicly called for its development at the opening of ...

  4. Vehicle registration plates of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Registration plates become valid with the official seal of registration. [ 5 ] : §12(3) This is a sticker of 45 mm ( 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) diameter, following the area code and bearing, in colours, the seal of the respective German Bundesland with the name of the state and the issuing district authority added in print.

  5. Vehicle registration plates of the German Democratic Republic

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    In response to the dramatic increase in the number of vehicles on East German roads, the design was revised in October 1974 to include an additional serial letter, albeit at the cost of the initial digit. The new format became: XXX #-##. Under this system, '0' was a permitted prefix digit, but the combination '0-00' was disallowed.

  6. Tax horsepower - Wikipedia

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    The tax horsepower or taxable horsepower was an early system by which taxation rates for automobiles were reckoned in some European countries such as Britain, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy; some US states like Illinois charged license plate purchase and renewal fees for passenger automobiles based on taxable horsepower.

  7. Inside Volkswagen’s $130 billion EV battle

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    The last time Fortune visited Volkswagen’s massive German auto plants, in early 2022, just that kind of “speedboat” had roared up: Tesla. Elon Musk’s spectacular growth in EV sales had ...

  8. Autobahn - Wikipedia

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    Just days after the 1933 Nazi takeover, Adolf Hitler enthusiastically embraced an ambitious autobahn construction project, appointing Fritz Todt, the Inspector General of German Road Construction, to lead it. By 1936, 130,000 workers were directly employed in construction, as well as an additional 270,000 in the supply chain for construction ...

  9. Road tax - Wikipedia

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    The fee is known colloquially as 'rego' (pronounced with a soft g, short for registration). [1] Queensland road tax is based on the number of cylinders or rotors the vehicle's engine has. There is also a small traffic improvement fee. New South Wales road tax is paid based on the vehicle's tare weight.