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CES 2002 News: EV Trucks Wars Ratchet Up

Clean Fleet Report

Maybe that news blackout at the end of the year was corporate strategy to shift focus to the volume division—Chevrolet—and its own electric pickup. Toyota also showed an electric pickup as one of its concepts of future vehicles. Nissan showed a prototype last year of what could be an electric version of its Frontier pickup.

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Kia announces new platform and powertrain details for next-generation Sorento; hybrid, GDI and diesel; PHEV to come

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Kia Motors Corporation revealed details of the next-generation Sorento’s new platform and powertrains. When the first-generation Sorento was launched in 2002, it was underpinned by a body-on-frame chassis, maximizing space and all-road ability. Korean and European customers can also specify the Sorento’s new four-cylinder 2.2-liter

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

Cars That Think

His office was not damaged, but the attack jump-started his long career at DARPA, which he joined in 2002. The two organizations signed a corporate membership and sponsorship agreement in 2018 to collaborate on several areas of mutual interest. He was in his Pentagon office on 9/11 when a plane hit the complex.

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Nevs in strategic cooperation with China’s State Grid for EVs

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State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) was established as a state-owned enterprise on 29 December 2002. is a wholly owned subsidiary company of State Grid Corporation of China. National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs) vision is to shape mobility for a more sustainable future. State Grid Electric Vehicle Service Co.,

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Toyota to produce hybrid transaxle and new gasoline engines in Poland; adjusting to shrinking diesel share in Europe

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Combined, the new projects represent an additional investment of approximately €150 million (US$165 million), bringing the total investment to-date of Toyota’s manufacturing operations in Poland to more than €950 million (US$1 billion) since operations started in 2002. —Kazunori Masuoka, President of Toyota Motor Industries Poland.

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Toyota’s nearest hydrogen powered automobile will likely be a Crown sedan

Baua Electric

Toyota hopes the Crown will assistance propel its international gasoline cellular automobile gross sales to eight,000 gadgets within the tide fiscal future finishing March 31, 2024, from 3,440 the fiscal future sooner than. From 2002 thru March 31, 2023, Toyota offered a complete of 23,123 gasoline cellular cars.

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Honda to provide $13.8M to FirstElement Fuel to support build out of California hydrogen refueling infrastructure

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This financial support from Honda, along with anticipated future grants from the State of California, will allow FirstElement to expand its network of stations by more than 50%, to at least 31 stations. (In The state of California has a plan to invest $200 million into hydrogen station development over the next several years.

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