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Ballard terminates two fuel-cell license agreements with Azure in China; will not hit 2014 revenue and EBITDA targets

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The second license agreement, announced on 19 June 2014, is related to the assembly of Ballard’s ElectraGen Telecom Backup Power systems in China for the Chinese market. Azure’s breaches and the resultant contract terminations will negatively impact the Ballard’s 2014 financial performance.

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Volkswagen AG timeline on diesel emissions scandal

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) received indications of irregularities from a study published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in May 2014. On 23 May 2014, a memo about the ICCT study was prepared for Martin Winterkorn, then-Chairman of the Management Board of Volkswagen AG.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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He has been loyal to this brand since 2014, when it became the first commercial EV introduced on the Virgin Islands by Nissan Saint Thomas USVI , also known as Drive Electric VI. There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I Unfortunately, the taxi drivers weren’t so happy and they hit back.”

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

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The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer. The regulation requires evaluation of EV charging infrastructure needs by the end of 2014.

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

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For those taking solace in the fact that over a dozen major automotive brands signed a voluntary set of automotive privacy principles in 2014 , Mozilla claims that not one of them has actually adhered to them. But your author is inclined to believe that it’s going to take a lot more than that to undo what’s now the status quo.

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Tesla Power Play: Why running a contested Elon Musk narrative is playing with fire

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Award-winning journalist Tim Higgins ‘ book, “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century,” is among the most recent explorations into the fascinating character of Elon Musk. After all, as the book noted in its Prologue, Musk may be a very public figure, but there is still a question surrounding him.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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prismatic cells—each of them about half the size of a paperback book—or long, flat pouch cells. The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. A production plant for Audi e-diesel started pilot operation in Dresden-Reick at the end of 2014 in partnership with sunfire.

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