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billion to Ford Motor Company to transform factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to produce more fuel efficient models. The loan for Ford Motor Company is the first to be finalized since the program was appropriated in the fall of 2008. Earlier post.). The program was appropriated $7.5

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MARCH 21, 2012

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Chery Automobile Company Ltd have reached agreement on a proposed joint venture in China. The scope of the proposed joint venture (JV) would include manufacture of JLR- and JV-branded vehicles; establishment of a research and development facility; engine manufacture; and sale of vehicles produced by the JV company.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Rome-based transport company, Atac, will receive 100 Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid buses. They are part of an ambitious investment program to modernize the bus fleet of the transport company in Italy’s capital. One of the company’s goals is to significantly reduce pollutant emissions. It is stored in high-performance supercaps.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). Earlier post.). billion in 2012-13.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

AC Propulsion’s sister company e.motor Advance Corp. of Beijing (China) has entered into a supplier contract with Beiqi Foton Motor Co. The contract between the two companies provides that e.motor Advance will deliver 100 sets of its drivetrain and battery pack systems to Foton for their Midi-E electric car. of Beijing.

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JUNE 23, 2009

billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 and $465 million to Tesla Motors. Ford Motor Company will receive $5.9 In addition, theses loans will help the company convert two truck plants to the production of cars. Tesla Motors will receive $465 million in two parts. billion to Nissan North America, Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation is establishing a new company, Toyota Research Institute Inc. The new company will begin operations in January 2016. He established three startups between 1983 and 2005, and helped found Olin College. TRI), as an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The executive suite changes occur as WiTricity continues to land more funding ($25 million last year, earlier post ), and to expand further its key partnerships, which, in the automotive space, now include Delphi ( earlier post ); Toyota ( earlier post ); IHI and Mitsubishi Motors ( earlier post ); and TDK ( earlier post ).

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Analysts say the group companies’ problems are likely to have a limited impact on Toyota’s earnings because their sales and profits are a small fraction of Toyota’s overall global earnings. His son Kiichiro Toyoda , Akio’s grandfather, founded Toyota Motor Corp. which makes diesel engines.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

Infiniti will introduce a production-ready variable compression ratio engine VC-T (Variable Compression-Turbocharged) at the 2016 Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l’Automobile) in September. Roland Krueger, president of Infiniti Motor Company. Nissan was awarded a patent in 1995 on compression ratio control for an engine.).

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JUNE 17, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation has signed formal agreements and begun preparations to establish a Mazda vehicle production facility in Mexico and a sales company in Brazil, in alliance with Sumitomo Corporation. Mazda will hold 70% of both the production plant and the sales company; Sumitomo will hold 30% of each. million units.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has developed two new fuel-saving technologies: the 4J10 lightweight and compact 1.8-liter To date, the company has employed two types of MIVEC systems. The new 4J10 MIVEC engine is produced at the Shiga Powertrain Plant and the company plans to sequentially introduce it on other models.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. The Palo Alto facility will assemble electric vehicle battery packs, electric motors, and related electric vehicle control equipment, both for Tesla’s own electric vehicles and for sale to other automobile manufacturers. billion to Ford Motor Company.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

At a technical briefing in Yokohama, Nissan Motor Co., liter engine vehicles as well as a new front-wheel-drive parallel hybrid system using the one-motor, two-clutch design earlier applied in the rear-wheel drive Infiniti M35 ( earlier post ). times greater than its 2005 model, achieving 2.5 XTRONIC CVT. Click to enlarge.

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Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions.

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SK Innovation is the first company in Korea and the third in the world exclusively to develop separators, a key component in lithium-ion batteries. Currently, SK Innovation supplies batteries to Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. SK Innovation set up SK Hi-Tech Battery Materials Co.

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People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? Due to a sudden company relocation, my wife had no other choice but to drive to her office. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4 That is normal.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Valvoline, a leading independent marketer of motor oil, has introduced its NextGen line of motor oils, featuring the inclusion of 50% recycled base oil. There have been earlier, generally unsuccessful attempts at marketing recycled motor oil; NextGen marks the first entry of such a product delivered by a major motor oil marketer.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Global chemical company BASF and Moleaer , a developer of industrial-scale nanobubble technology, announced an exclusive partnership. This partnership will combine expertise in mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, gas transfer, and nanobubble technology to develop innovative processes for mining.

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As part of a new business an capital alliance between Toyota Motor Corporation and Subaru Corporation, Subaru will expand the use of the the Toyota Hybrid System in other Subaru models, following on the Crosstrek Hybrid ( earlier post , which is available only in North America.). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 8, 2012

GE’s Power Conversion business recently received a series of new orders from South Korean companies Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. The scope of GE’s contracts includes MV7000 converters, induction motors, transformers, generators, main and cargo switchboards and propulsion control systems.

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The proposed rule adopts California Low Emission Vehicle standards for new light- and medium-duty motor vehicles sold in Colorado beginning in MY 2022. Should the rule be adopted, Colorado will be in company with the 13 states other than California that adopted California LEV requirements between 2005 and 2014. Background.

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Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co., a joint vehicle-production company. Production of the Prius began in China in 2005, marking the first time the vehicle was produced outside Japan. Production of the Prius began in China in 2005, marking the first time the vehicle was produced outside Japan. In 2010, GAC Toyota Motor Co.,

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GAZ Group has successfully cooperated with Serbian carriers since 2005, for today about 250 LiAZ buses operate on routes of Serbia. GAZ also produces the Electrobus LIAZ-6274 in collaboration with MOBEL Company on the basis of low-floor city bus LIAZ-5292.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) unveiled the production version of the i-MiEV electric vehicle on World Environment Day in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Motors expects to distribute, on a maintenance lease basis, some 1,400 i-MiEV units in fiscal 2009 principally to corporations and to local authorities. The i-MiEV system configuration.

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JULY 24, 2009

The joint venture will bring a suite of EV technologies to the US, including advanced EV in-wheel direct drive motors and rapid charges. With plans for additional research, development and manufacturing of these motors in the US, the partners have applied for financial support from a Department of Energy grant.

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The Boston-Power Board of Directors joins me in expressing our appreciation of Christina’s contribution to Boston-Power, as its founder in passionately developing the company into an EV battery technology leader it is today as well as helping with the transition over the past year with the company’s expansion in China.

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The global debut of the MG E-motion electric concept car at the Auto Shanghai motor show in April 2017 epitomized the strategy of the resurgent MG brand. SAIC has owned the British brand MG since 2005 and sells cars in China, as well as in other Asian markets, Australia, Latin America and the UK. SAIC Motor sold 6.49

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JUNE 6, 2019

Toyota Motor Corporation and Subaru Corporation disclosed today that they have agreed jointly to develop a platform dedicated to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for midsize and large passenger vehicles and jointly to develop a C-segment-class BEV SUV model for sale under each company’s own brand.

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As such, these vehicles fail to conform with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 126, “Electronic Stability Control Systems.”. Because it is not feasible to track down all the parts, the company is recalling 824,000 more vehicles in the US to ensure that every car has a current ignition switch.

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The company has revealed the 2025 GT-R for Japanese markets and while it’s not officially confirmed, this could be the last production model of the GT-R. The automaker released two concepts, one in 2001 at the Tokyo Motor Show and the GT-R Proto at the same event in 2005. The 2025 Nissan GT-R arrives with minimal changes.

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MAY 22, 2014

BYD Microelectronics (BME), a division of the global BYD Company Ltd., The EVs have operated for more than 400,000 miles each and the BLX9 (the main BME multi-channel current sensor) has performed without a single issue over 5 years, according to the company.

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China-based internet company LeEco unveiled its LeSEE electric car concept this week at Auto China 2016—The 14th Beijing International Automobile Exhibition. and participated in the founding of Shanghai General Motors in 1995, serving as the Chief General Manager from 2005 through 2010. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Headlining this was the debut of the Lexus LF-30 Electrified Concept, which made its world premiere at the 46 th Tokyo Motor Show 2019. In-wheel electric motors for each of the vehicle’s four wheels and low positioning of the battery enable better handling of inertia and high-level driving performance.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The use of a hybrid powertrain allows the turbine to remain at optimum operating rpm, while the electric motor/energy storage handles acceleration and deceleration. In 2005, Walmart, one of the nation’s largest private fleet operators, announced its goal to double fleet efficiency by 2015. Laydon Composites Ltd.; and Whiting. .;

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that GAC Toyota Engine Co. Ltd (GTE), a joint venture company established with Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Production started in 2005, and cumulative production reached 1 million engines in 2009. GTE was established in 2004 as a supply base for engines and engine parts in China.

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TATSA), a company wholly owned by Consorcio Metropolitano de Transporte S.A., The companies will work closely to specially match Eaton’s hybrid system to TATSA’s popular 12-meter bus model. The hybrid system combines a Cummins diesel engine with an electric motor that has a peak power output of 44 kW.

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