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Skoda’s global sales rise 18.5% in 2023 to 866,800 cars | Autocar Professional

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Moreover, by entering the Vietnamese and Kazakhstan markets in H2 2023, Škoda Auto is advancing its international growth strategy. At the recently inaugurated logistics hub in Pune, the CKD (completely-knocked-down) kits of the Indian-made models Kushaq and Slavia will be prepared for export to Vietnam for final assembly.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Cars That Think

Enter ice-penetrating radar (IPR), a technology that uses radio waves to image the internal layers of glaciers and the bed beneath them. Peregrine lands after a test flight in Norway. In the 1960s, as part of an international collaboration, a U.S. Peregrine flew a pattern [left, red line] spanning an area roughly 0.6

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EV Radar: January 2022

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Norway's EV Sales Beats the Cold. Norway is one of the coldest, snowiest countries in the world. Automakers' dedication, governments' policies on CO2 emissions, and EV-related rebate programs encourage Europeans to pick electric cars over internal combustion engine vehicles. Power Kit Adds 30% More Range. EV Coolness.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

Even before all this, just a week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a press release titled, “How Europe can cut natural gas imports from Russia significantly within a year.” But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.”

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway. Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: EV Discussion List : THE international EV email discussion group EVMailing List : This is the EV Discussion List archive. Ford Fiesta :Interesting English conversion. Nice folks.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. told the Nikkei International Automotive Conference in Tokyo. He said he was "not so concerned about cost challenges: we might be able to internalize that." Bloomberg ).

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car.

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