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General Motors and its joint ventures sold their 1 millionth vehicle in China in 2014. GM first sold 1 million vehicles in China in 2007, when it achieved the milestone in December. General Motors has made China a global priority, expanding both our brand and product lineup to keep up with the changing demands of the market.

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MARCH 6, 2014

The UK and China have agreed to a new £20-million (US$33-million) three-year program that will support research to develop new low carbon manufacturing processes and technologies, low carbon cities and offshore renewables in the two countries. million (US$11 million) available each year. million (US$9.4

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MAY 28, 2012

DFL) and the City of Xiangyang today announced that the Xiangyang plant in Hubei Province, China, has been selected as the local production site for Infiniti. Nissan’s joint venture company in China, will manufacture two Infiniti models starting in 2014. Dongfeng Motor Co., The plant, operated by Dongfeng Motor Co.,

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MAY 8, 2014

The China region is Johnson Controls’ primary target for market expansion. The leading global supplier of automotive batteries, Johnson Controls has produced nearly 20 million AGM batteries since 2007. Johnson Controls is investing in AGM technology globally to increase production capacity for North America, Europe and China.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

billion) in research and development in China in recognition that Chinese consumers are increasingly driving global innovation. Ford announced that there will be more than 1 million SYNC-equipped vehicles on the road in China by the end of 2015. —John Lawler, chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China. billion (US$1.8

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AUGUST 17, 2022

A subsidiary of Kuok Singapore Limited, PaxOcean owns and operates five shipyards located in Singapore, China and Indonesia.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

China BAK Battery, Inc., Ltd, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in China, to provide high-power lithium-phosphate batteries for use in its Electric Bus Project. It represents customers’ confidence in our products, and is a new and significant stage in China BAK’s product development. Xiangqian Li, CEO of China BAK.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

General Motors China and China FAW Group Corp. The new 50-50 joint venture between GM China and FAW is based in Changchun, Jilin. Existing and future products will be branded FAW in China, while the joint venture leaves room for the creation of GM derivatives. The new joint venture includes Ha’erbin Light Vehicle Co.,

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JUNE 4, 2023

Despite extremely low LME nickel exchange inventories, which are currently at the 2007 level and amount to less than 5 days of global use only, the LME nickel contract was down by 30% since the beginning of the year. The forecast for nickel supply in 2023 is almost unchanged at 3.45

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

The drought situation in China in early February 2009. Guoguang estimates that drought in China creates, on average, losses of 30 billion kilograms of grain per year, or about 60% of all of the agricultural losses attributed to natural disaster in China. Source: CMA. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The total number of cars for civilian use in China rose 24.5% in 2008 from 2007 to 24.38 million, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China. increase over 2007. China’s GDP grew 9.0% That growth rate represented a sharp drop from the 2006 to 2007 growth of 13.0%.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Kia Motors Corporation plans to build a third manufacturing plant in China in order to meet increasing local demand and to maintain its positive sales momentum in the market. Dongfeng Yueda Kia (DYK) Motors is a 50/50 joint venture through which Kia Motors manufactures, markets and services vehicles in China.). in 2010 (13 th ).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with China National Petroleum Corp. CNPC) under which the two companies will collaborate on a range of biofuels technologies and projects in China. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons China Fuels.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

CSR was approved by China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and was co-founded by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Group Corporation and Beijing Railway Industry Economic and Trade Company in 2007.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

The supervisory board of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies ( RusNano ) has approved the state corporation’s participation in a project with China-based Li-ion battery manufacturer Thunder Sky to manufacture Lithium-ion batteries, the first such project in Russia. Tags: Batteries China Russia.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Oilfield Services Ltd. Since its incorporation on 22 February 2007, Sunshine has secured more than 464,897 hectares (1,189,762 acres) of oil sands leases (equal to approximately 7% of all granted leases in this area). Canada-based Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. Sunshine Oilsands Ltd.

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JULY 5, 2009

The data points show the vehicles/1,000 people for different countries in 1996 and 2007. The US has about 844 vehicles per 1,000 people (in 2007), according to Edition 28 of the Transportation Energy Data Book (TEDB), published by the US Department of Energy. Source: TEDB. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 26, 2009

China’s Yitai Group’s 160,000 tonne/year coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has produced qualified diesel oil and naphtha in its trial run. It is estimated that China will have 30 million to 50 million tons of CTL production capacity by 2020. Li, Yongwang.

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JULY 3, 2023

inventive companies, hiring Ogilvy in Might 2022, changing Venables, Bell & Companions, which had held the account since 2007. Ogilvy had already labored with Audi in South Africa, China and Germany. Throughout Accelerate’s tenure, Audi of Amerca modified manage U.S. Audi’s U.S. gross sales higher 49 p.c

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MAY 20, 2013

Batteries accounted for 27% of global lithium consumption in 2012, up from 15% in 2007 and 8% in 2002. This is below the 2007 peak of US$6,500/t, but well above the US$2,000-3,000/t levels seen in the early 2000s. Galaxy Resources commissioned a new 17,000 tpy LCE mineral conversion plant in China in 2012.

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MAY 14, 2010

Penn West Energy Trust has entered into an agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the China Investment Corporation (CIC) to form a joint venture that will develop Penn West’s bitumen assets located in the Peace River area of northern Alberta. CIC has also agreed to purchase trust units of Penn West on a private placement basis.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Carbon emissions associated with increased exports from China (left), as part of a more systematic view of increased national emissions (right), 2002 to 2005. Researchers from Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, estimated in the study that China’s 2005 carbon emissions were 80.59% or more higher than 2002 emissions. “

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JULY 29, 2012

Vehicle efficiency improvements via effective standards and policies could reduce annual CO 2 e emissions from the US, China, and the EU by 1.3 The US, China, and the EU could reduce their combined annual CO 2 emissions by 1.3 Gt at a savings of about $135 billion per year by 2030. Source: McKinsey & Co., ICCT-ClimateWorks.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

According to the report, China—the world’s leading vehicle-producing nation—will lead the increase in vehicle output, with full-year assemblies expected to jump 17% to more than 21 million units. Surging car sales in China are also lifting vehicle production in Western Europe, especially Germany. million set in 2007.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Since its acquisition of Weda Bay in 2007, Eramet carried out extensive geological work and confirmed the potential of this world-class deposit whose mining operations started at the end of 2019. The HPAL plant will process locally secured mining ore from the Weda Bay deposit to produce a nickel and cobalt intermediate.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

The agreement will regulate the activities to be carried until the completion of basic engineering and to the time of formation of the joint venture, which will have the responsibility to build the refinery, with 40% participation by PDVSA.

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APRIL 19, 2020

The world première of the first generation Tiguan took place at the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt in 2007. In European markets and in many other countries, the long-wheelbase model was launched as the Tiguan Allspace, while it is marketed as the Tiguan L1 in China.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

.” Leno shared the story of when Elon Musk visited him with the Tesla Roadster prototype in 2007. ” Fast forward from 2007 to 2022, Tesla, under Elon Musk’s leadership, owns and operates the largest global, fast charging network in the world. And I’m going ‘ok, that’ll happen, that sounds good.'”

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MARCH 10, 2015

China-based Shenzhen Senior Technology, a manufacturer of microporous separators, has licensed LG Chem’s Safety Reinforced Separator (SRS) technology. LG Chem’s SRS technology was patented in Korea in 2007, followed by the United States, China, Europe and Japan. Earlier post.).

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MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. —Prof Guan.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Plants that have switched to the MQL process include: Changan Ford Engine Plant (China). 2007) “Environmentally Friendly and Low Cost Manufacturing – Implementation of MQL Machining (Minimum Quantity Lubrication),” SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-1338 doi: 10.4271/2007-01-1338 Stoll, A., Craiova Engine Plant (Romania).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Fisker expects to continue to utilize equity financing to support its business plan that combines continued sales of its inaugural Karma model with market expansion into the key Middle East and China markets, along with further development work on its second production model, the mid-size Atlantic sedan.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

Since 2007, Johnson Controls has produced 28 million AGM batteries. Joseph, Missouri; Toledo, Ohio; Changxing, China; Gumi, South Korea and Hannover, Germany. In 2013, Johnson Controls began supplying batteries for Ford’s Fusion Auto Start-Stop vehicle.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

BYD has decided not to put the F3e EV into production due to the lack of an enabling environment for electric cars in China, according to a report in China Business News which cited Wang Jianjun, deputy general manager of BYD Automotive Sales Co Ltd. Gasgoo.com. It therefore created the F3DM, a plug-in hybrid compact sedan, Wan said.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela SA) will invest about $14 billion to develop the Junin 10 block in the Orinoco extra heavy oil belt in Venezuela, according to a tweet sent out by Rafael Ramirez, the Venezuelan petroleum minister. degree API crude to upgraded crude of 35.7

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APRIL 29, 2016

At Auto China in Beijing, Qoros Auto unveiled a concept car showcasing a new Qoros “Qamfree” engine featuring FreeValve ’s Pneumatic-Hydraulic-Electric-Actuator (PHEA) technology. FreeValve and Qoros also announced a partnership for the continued development of the camless technology. FreeValve AB is a sister company to Koenigsegg Automotive.

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MARCH 6, 2018

China remains the main engine of demand growth, but more stringent policies to curb air pollution will slow growth. of demand by 2023, the lowest number since 2007. Global oil trade routes are moving East, as China and India replace the United States as top oil importers. mb/d by 2023 to 104.7 mb/d, according to the IEA.

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