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Mercedes-Benz to set up EV production in US, battery plant; $1B investment in Alabama

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The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz US International), its Tuscaloosa, Alabama facility. Final details of the plans are still being worked on in partnership with the State of Alabama. Mercedes-Benz will set up electric vehicle production in the United States.

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UPS updates 125 Workhorse E-GEN series hybrid electric step vans with smaller genset engine for better fuel economy

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The updated trucks, which were originally purchased in September 2015, deliver up to four times the fuel economy of a gasoline-powered vehicle, UPS said. The trucks will be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas later this year. A small 23 kW/30 hp, 2100 N·m PSI 2.4-liter

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Daimler opens Mercedes-Benz engine plant in China; first MB passenger car engine plant outside of Germany

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billion) investment, BBAC is increasing its production capacities to more than 200,000 units by 2015. The international locations include the new engine plant at the BBAC joint venture in Beijing as well as the Romanian subsidiary Star Transmission. With Daimler’s €2-billion (US$2.7-billion)

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GE Aviation hits Farnborough at full throttle; $7.5B in R&D investments since 2010; ceramic matrix composites and 3D printing

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By year’s end, GE and CFM International (the 50/50 joint company of GE and Safran) will have more than 15,000 commercial engines on back order. Between 2015 and 2020, GE and its partner companies will deliver 10,000 large commercial engines. Investment in the aviation industry over the past decade has been remarkable.

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

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which began offering rooted cutting seedlings of the new varieties in 2015. This important step came after ArborGen’s extensive field testing of the trees produced from tissue cultures in Merkle's lab in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. The new hybrid varieties are already being sold commercially by ArborGen Inc.,

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New 7th-generation Hyundai Sonata updates design, tweaks powertrain

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2015 Sonata 2.0T Hyundai introduced its seventh-generation 2015 Sonata mid-size sedan at the New York International Auto Show. Hyundai continues its all four-cylinder Theta engine lineup for the 2015 Sonata. Information on the 2015 Sonata Hybrid will come later this year.) The 2015 Sonata Sport 2.0T

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The origins of NDEW and DEED

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She spoke at our press conference, for which we issued a media alert with a big request: “Today we congratulate President Barack Obama, who has called for one million plug-in cars by 2015,” said PIA co-founder Paul Scott. And media from Vermont to Alabama to Hawaii and beyond continue to carry our message of change.

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