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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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These activities will become a part of initiatives aimed at meeting the goals set out in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, which was announced in October, 2015. Protecting highly important floodplain habitats in Hungary within the Tisza Floodplain. WWF Hungary. Toki-no-hane (feather of Japanese crested ibis)'.

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SK On secures US$2B for battery business in Europe

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3 in Europe currently under construction in Iváncsa, Hungary. The three agencies that took part in the financing are all export credit agencies (ECAs). GWh production capacity in 2017, these new plants will increase the company’s production capacities to 77 GWh by the end of this year, to 220 GWh by 2025, and to 500 GWh by 2030.

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Apollo Tyres celebrates Vredestein acquisition with new tulip variant | Autocar Professional

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Benoit Rivallant, President of Apollo Tyres Europe, said: “Since 2009, we have seen the Vredestein brand go from strength to strength, and we are honoured to be a part of its continued success story.

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Mercedes-Benz to invest ~€500M to produce electric compact EQ model at Hambach plant

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The smart plant in Hambach will become a part of our global compact car production network with the lead plant Rastatt, Germany. With the smart EQ fortwo and the smart EQ fortwo cabrio, the smart plant Hambach is producing the fourth generation of electric vehicles of the small city car since 2017.

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Audi Hungaria starts series production of electric motors

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r, Hungary plant. Driverless vehicles, controlled by an intelligent IT system, transport the parts to the workstations. r, six different gasoline engines and three different diesel engines were produced in 2017 with power output ranging from 63 kilowatts (86 horsepower) to 470 kW (639 hp). Tubing the various coil windings.

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EPFL cooperative maneuvering control algorithm for integrating automated vehicles with legacy traffic; dynamic platooning

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Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), as part of the AutoNet2030 project, have developed a cooperative maneuvering control algorithm allowing automated vehicles to operate in traffic alongside manually-driven vehicles. Finally, as part of the AutoNet2030 project, they managed to get to real vehicles on the road.

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