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Toyota to begin hybrid powertrain production in US; $374M investment in 5 plants

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liter engine capacity at the Georgetown, Kentucky, plant; increasing production of 2.5-liter liter cylinder heads at Bodine Aluminum’s Troy, Missouri, plant; and modifying the Bodine Jackson, Tennessee, plant to accommodate production of hybrid transaxle cases and housings and 2.5-liter liter engine blocks.

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Nissan to sell AESC automotive Li-ion battery business to GSR Capital

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The sale and purchase agreement covers Nissan’s battery subsidiary, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation ( AESC ), as well as battery manufacturing operations in Smyrna, Tennessee, owned by Nissan North America Inc. NNA), and in Sunderland, England, owned by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. This is a win-win for AESC and Nissan.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler partnership solid and expanding; 12 projects on three continents

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Production will begin in 2017 with Infiniti models. liter diesel engines for both the new Mercedes C-Class and the Mercedes Vito van. Renault is also supplying a 1-liter, 3-cylinder naturally aspirated gasoline engine and a 900cc turbocharged, 3-cylinder gasoline unit for the smart forfour and smart fortwo.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

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Like a lot of Masters corporate attendees, he was housed in a luxury private home, which he and his guest proceeded to trash after a night of drinking. The topper was the general manager in the group whose auto manufacturer awarded him a free trip to the Masters golf tournament. As you might have guessed by now, he kept his job.

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All you need to know about lithium miners & battery producers 

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The internal combustion engine is a mature technology that’s being superseded by battery electric vehicles (BEVs). largely comes from Tesla-Panasonic’s Gigafactory 1 in California, LG Chem’s Michigan plant supplying GM, and AESC Envision’s factory in Tennessee. Today, battery capacity in the U.S. LG Energy Solution plans to invest $4.5

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added.

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