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BASF to provide sustainable refinish coatings solutions and technical services to Didi’s body and paint shops

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This will help us increase efficiency by integrating the whole value chain of contractors, dealers, and repair centers. BASF first approached DiDi and Xiaoju Autocare in late 2019 and had already secured first business opportunities by early 2020, when BASF started the conversion of DiDi’s first shops in Shanghai.

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Worldwide Prius Cumulative Sales Top 2M Mark; Toyota Reportedly Plans Two New Prius Variants for the US By End of 2012

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In 2007, sales in Japan represented 21% of all Prius sales worldwide and in 2008, 26%. Conversely, North America accounted for 65% of worldwide Prius sales in 2007; 57% in 2008; 36% in 2009; and 26% for Jan-Sep 2010. In 2009, that share jumped to 52%, and for Jan-Sep 2010, the figure is 63%. Click to enlarge.

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GM Releases New Viability Plan, Launches Bond Exchange; Phasing Out Pontiac

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General Motors presented an updated Viability Plan that accelerates and deepens the cuts in US brands and nameplates, dealers, manufacturing operations and employees intended to enable GM North America to breakeven (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles. Fritz Henderson.

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

Cars That Think

This year, auto dealers in California will be able to go beyond personalized license plate frames to sell “Kindle-ized” license plates, in which the entire plate can display custom text and graphics using e-paper technology. –Ed. states will introduce the gadgets this year, and his company is “in conversation” with 10 more.

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ICCT study finds increasing discrepancy between type-approval and real-world fuel consumption in European cars

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From a consumer perspective, most drivers are aware that there exists a gap between the fuel consumption they experience during everyday driving and the corresponding values that are listed in information brochures they obtain from their local car dealer, the internet, or other media sources. million passenger cars exported in 2010).

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RMI Launches Project Get Ready to Help Communities Prepare for Plug-ins

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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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