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Renault-Nissan Alliance delivers €4.3B synergy target early; autonomous drive and connectivity expected to deliver major savings

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billion) in synergies in 2015, one year ahead of schedule and an increase of 13% from 2014. In 2015, Renault began selling the Kwid in India, followed by the launch of the Redi-Go by Datsun in mid-2016. and in India, Brazil, Romania, Turkey and China, among other locations. Renault-Nissan Alliance generated €4.3 billion (US$4.8

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In The rules require that the driver retain the power to override the systems, which makes for less intrusive nannying.

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ICCT study finds noise and climate impacts of a new generation of supersonic aircraft could be significant

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Canada, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Romania, Turkey, and parts of the United States would experience frequent sonic booms; the most heavily impacted regions could be exposed to between 150 and 200 incidents per day, or up to one boom every five minutes over a 16 hour flight day. The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6

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