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Volkswagen starts automotive business in Iran

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen will begin the sale of vehicles in Iran in August. The privately-owned local partner Mammut Khodro—also the official Iranian importer for the Volkswagen Group’s Scania brand—will import Volkswagen brand vehicles into Iran and initially distribute them through eight dealers, focusing on the Teheran region.

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Iranian team proposes intelligent control strategy for hybrids using fuzzy driving cycle identification agent

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Tehran (Iran), with colleagues at Isfahan University of Technology and Iran University of Science and Technology, are proposing a new intelligent control strategy for the energy management of hybrid powertrains based on the driving cycle type. 9 1169-1188 doi: 10.1177/0954407014556116.

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Geely exports more than 100,000 vehicles in 2012; 164% year-on-year growth

Green Car Congress

According to figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), in the first eleven months of 2012 Chinese self-developed brands exported 470,000 passenger vehicles in total—with automotive manufacturers on average showing a 30% sales increase over 2011 figures.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.

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Israel carves playground as automobile era powerhouse

Baua Electric

Israel had enough of era experience prior to finding the automobile trade. Even if it has made ease with some, it nonetheless faces blackmails from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Even if it has made ease with some, it nonetheless faces blackmails from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

There’s very, very little regulation on the automobile because the power of the United States was as an industrial behemoth, and the idea is like, “We don’t want to stop that.” So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak. The same story was with the car.

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