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

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Zhejiang Geely Holding Group set a new export sales record in December with 11,000 cars being exported during the month, which also helped the company increase its export sales over the course of 2012 by 164%. Geely’s current major overseas markets include Ukraine, Russia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

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Autonomous driving tech faces geopolitical ‘winter’ on road to mainstream – ET Auto

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The radical concept of cars driving on their own also attracted a lot of hype, and almost a competition to develop the required capabilities. The incidents in the US, involving GM’s Cruise and Waymo robotaxis have also triggered debates over autonomously driving cars globally too. Visteon is among them. “We More challenges?

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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% The Middle East is home to the largest market for LD NGVs, Iran. between 2012 and 2019, reaching 3.2

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. urban buses, delivery trucks) and high mileage light-duty vehicles, primarily fleet vehicles (such as taxis, business and government vehicles). Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3 million bpd of oil.

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