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DOE Turns Down V-Vehicle Loan Applications

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VVC filed applications for both loans in March 2009. The DOE conducted an extensive technical, market, financial, regulatory, credit and legal analysis following its determination that the applications were substantially complete in May 2009. That work began in July 2009 and was targeted for completion in the third quarter 2011.

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Fitch Ratings: US automakers well positioned for weak demand in 2012; estimates break-even for Detroit 3 at 10.5M units

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did in 2009, resulting in a significant decline in vehicle production, Fitch could switch the rating to Negative. million light vehicles, corresponding to 2009 recessionary sales volumes. million units, will remain well below the industry annual sales level of approximately 17 million units seen from 1999 through 2006.

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Volkswagen and Suzuki to Establish Strategic Partnership; VW to Take 19.9% Stake in Suzuki, Suzuki to Invest in VW

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The two companies said that they complement each other in terms of product portfolio, global distribution and manufacturing capacities. million motorcycles in the 2008/2009 financial year. Suzuki had established a strategic alliance with General Motors in 1981, which ultimately resulted in GM holding 20% of the company.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. What happens to an electric car deferred?

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

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Saturday, January 17, 2009, Santa Monica, California - Inaugural Parade West. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Click on this photo to see Stefano Paris' video production of the event. Your Greenius was there and I have the photos. If you can afford them.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. Establishing dealer network.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

By Robert Gammon January 14, 2009. The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

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