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Lumax Cornaglia Auto Tech opens new plant for emission products in Pune – ET Auto

Baua Electric

With a workforce of over 200 employees, including 30 highly skilled and experienced engineers, this facility will serve the emission products requirements of the Indian Auto industry. This plant for the first time will manufacture Plastic Fuel Tanks for commercial vehicles.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Appleyard, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 546/547, 2007, pp. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only. Brights commercial truck, however, could actually make a big difference  even if you and I cant run out and buy one.

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Rolling into the Rotunda

Plug In Partners

A shift to manufacturing flexible-fuel PHEVs could be central to revitalization of the American auto industry by positioning domestic automakers as leaders in this emerging technology. Federal and state support of this technology can accelerate commercial deployment. million for advanced battery development.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Heres our roundup of auto-maker comments in the media recently. A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. [See Just the opposite.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. By partnering with these two industries. Batteries not ready. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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