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Mazda and Ford JV to Invest $350M to Build Next Generation Compact Pickup Truck in Thailand

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Mazda Motor Corporation and Ford Motor Company’s joint venture, AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co. In July 2007, AutoAlliance Thailand celebrated one million units of production since the facility began manufacturing vehicles in 1998. The investment will enable production of the new compact pickups to commence in mid-2011.

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California Legislature Considering Bill Requiring Smog Testing for Motorcycles

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These new standards applied to 1988 model year and later bikes and could be met on a corporate average basis. The standards include corporate averaging provisions. Small volume manufacturers were defined in the final regulations as manufacturers with annual California sales of no more than 300 motorcycles. g/km HC standard.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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It’s actually a corporate objective. In February 2008, GRF became one of the first forests—and the largest—to receive verification as a source of greenhouse gas reductions under the protocols of the Climate Action Reserve , adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2007. This really is what drives us.

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iMiEV Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle

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iMiEV Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle by Noel Adams Mitsubishi has been showing a number of electric cars at auto shows starting in Tokyo back in 2005, they didnt show the most recent iteration, the one that will be the production version, until the 2007 Frankfurt Auto show.

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

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Coming to public in 12 Nissans first electric car is to go into corporate and government fleets beginning in late 2010. It would then be offered for public use in 2012, said Brian Carolin, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Nissan North America Inc. 16,000 miles.

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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

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The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards require that vehicles offered for sale in the US attain an average fuel economy of 40.3 Under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, NHTSA does not have the statutory authority for setting CAFE standards for more than five years at a time—i.e., mpg by 2025.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready. Detroit Free Press ).

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