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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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JULY 9, 2012

of all fatal accidents in 2007 occurred in intersections, and in 16 EU countries (excluding Sweden) the corresponding figure was 20.6% To obtain the necessary data for the development of these systems, cars are driven hundreds of thousands of kilometers in various traffic environments globally. In the US 21.5%

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Annual sales of TMC hybrids in Japan and globally. Cumulative sales in Japan of its Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) hybrid vehicles have topped the 1-million mark, while more than 2.68 million units have been sold globally as of 31 July 2010, according to the company. YTD figure is through 31 July 2010. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Evidence in NSB’s biennial report Science and Engineering Indicators makes it increasingly clear that the US, Japan, and Europe no longer monopolize the global R&D arena. China led the Asian expansion, with its global share growing from just 4% to 15% during this period. However, the US S&T enterprise remains the global leader.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Annual global sales of TMC hybrids. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has cumulatively sold more than 2 million hybrid vehicles since the launch in 1997 in Japan of the Coaster Hybrid EV in August and the Prius in December. On May 31, 2007, the global cumulative sales of TMC’s hybrid vehicles had topped 1 million.

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MAY 8, 2014

Johnson Controls has signed a new long-term automotive battery supply agreement with SAIC Motor Corporation Limited (SAIC Motor) to provide its Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) lead-acid batteries to power SAIC Motor’s Start-Stop vehicles. Johnson Controls is in the process of building a new corporate headquarters in Shanghai.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Ltd revealed the sketch of its upcoming global compact car. The new global compact. Benefits to manufacturers of the Eco-car program are: 8-year exemption on machinery duty import and corporate income tax. Nissan Motor Co., Click to enlarge. At the same time, Nissan Motor (Thailand) Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Ford Motor Company is furthering its commitment to aggressively step up water conservation programs at its global facilities and among the company’s suppliers, according to its 15 annual Sustainability Report, released today. Plans are under way to further cut water use by another 2% this year and to set new long-term goals.

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MARCH 8, 2013

This is the result of a joint effort and expanded cooperation between KLM, Schiphol Group, Delta Air Lines, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and by contributions of KLM’s partners in the Corporate BioFuel Program. Last year KLM launched the first biofuel proposition for contracted corporate accounts.

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MARCH 7, 2013

The announcement of this research agreement with Volkswagen Group, a recognized global leader, is a major step for Ballard both strategically and financially. In 2007, Ballard sold the company’s automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler and Ford as part of a major corporate transformation from 2007 to 2009. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 5, 2017

In addition to the information on the suppliers, the site also offers an update on Neste’s corporate level usage of crude palm oil, as well as its activities and collaborative projects aiming at further developing the sustainability of the company’s supply chain, and supporting the larger scale development within the palm oil industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December. But there is still a significant gap in addressing all three together at a global level.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Global specialty chemical company LANXESS Corporation , which is also a leading rubber supplier to the tire industry, has urged the US National Highway Transportation Safety Authority (NHTSA) to implement tire labeling and a broader Consumer Information Program on tire fuel efficiency.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The decision is in line with Statoil’s strategy to prioritize capital to the most competitive projects in its comprehensive global portfolio and is consistent with our stepwise approach to the oil sands. Statoil entered Kai Kos Dehseh (KKD) through the acquisition of North American Oil Sands Corporation in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The EIA defines chokepoints as narrow channels along widely used global sea routes, some so narrow that vessel size is restricted. They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits, the agency notes. million bbl/d of crude oil in 2007 to 1.1 The Suez Canal.

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MAY 22, 2016

Green bonds—the funds from which are exclusively applied to finance new and existing green infrastructure projects—were developed as a new investment channel in 2007, with the first few issuances by multilateral development banks, and have grown rapidly in the global market. The final order book of more than US$2.3

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MAY 31, 2013

Dr. Winterkorn will offer perspective from the vantage point of a leading global corporation on broad strategic issues facing the school, its programs, and resources. Two years later the collaboration continued with the creation of “Junior” (an autonomous Passat Wagon), which finished the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge in second place.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and LeasePlan, the European market leader in fleet and vehicle management, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the two parties will study ways to promote the use of electric vehicles and will investigate the options for a commercial approach towards corporate fleet customers. million vehicles.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2024

BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. They not only changed the basis of competition; they also created all new, global industries. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. inch floppy.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Shawn Fain, the combative president of the United Auto Staff union, has threatened to hit any of the 3 corporations that hasn’t reached an promise through the life its lease with the union expires at 11:59 p.m. ” These days, UAW employees who had been rented later 2007 don’t obtain defined-benefit pensions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Our goal is economic empowerment, starting with bringing easy-to-use, reliable self-custody to a global audience.”. And in December, the company changed its corporate name to “Block.”. Square’s end goal is to create a global network of decentralized finance on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.”. It isn’t going to be easy.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The report was released on the opening day of KPMG’s global “Business Perspective on Sustainable Growth: Preparing for Rio+20” summit occurring this week in New York. Source: KPMG.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

For that context we turn to GM CEO Roger Smith (pictured at left)(1925-2007), who was chairman of the company from 1981 to 1990. He wanted GM to become a company driven by technology, which looked less like traditional GM and more like a global conglomerate. Smith also saw tech as a way for GM to move toward the future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

It is simply not acceptable that major developed nations such as the US are not behind a global agreement. A strong move towards a green economy and global equity is central to the debate. According to the IEA global energy demand is predicted to grow by 55 per cent by 2030.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

Their stated goal is to become a "globally competitive" Japanese truck maker with an emphasis on serving Southeast Asia as the primary market. Nissan sold its truck subsidiary to Volvo in 2007, Volkswagen renamed its truck and bus unit Traton in 2018 and listed it on the Frankfurt and Stockholm stock exchanges the following year.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The Chinese electric vehicle maker backed by the Investment wizard Warren Buffet, surpassed Tesla last year on global sales and will assemble its EV models in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, and sell vehicles in the lucrative Indian market. As of 2016, it supplied Olectra with batteries and bus chassis from its Sriperumbudur assembly plant.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation has reached an agreement with Ford Motor Company to explore collaboration with Livio, a Ford subsidiary acquired in 2013 ( earlier post ), for the implementation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology in future Toyota and Lexus vehicles. —Shigeki Terashi, Senior Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Sakti3 was founded in 2007 as a spin-out of the University of Michigan to commercialize methods of designing and making micromachined batteries and hybrid power supplies, and has been supported to date by Khosla Ventures and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Ann Marie Sastry, CEO of Sakti3. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2010

The new eight-speed automatic transmission, licensed from ZF, will contribute to a corporate fuel economy improvement goal of more than 25% by 2014. In December 2009, Chrysler announced that it would invest $179 million in its Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance (GEMA) plant in Dundee, Mich., billion since 2007. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

million) to further industrialize its CO 2 and NO x reduction capabilities for the global automotive and transport industries. The business was established in 2007 to acquire Visteon’s advanced powertrain business. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Here’s your chance to catch the first glimpse of Nissan’s upcoming global compact car (view the sketch here ) which will be launched in Thailand in March 2010 before being made available in more than 150 countries. 94 and Reg.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, applies the Sustainable Value approach developed by Prof. In 2007, Daimler AG (replacing DaimlerChrysler in the analysis as of 2007) manages to close the gap to BMW Group and Toyota considerably. billion from 1999 to 2007. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

Unveiled at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, the proposals take the form of a global framework that clarifies which climate change data should be reported by corporations and provides management with a set of guidelines designed to streamline disclosure procedures.

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MAY 27, 2022

Between approximately 2007 and 2018, Glencore and its subsidiaries caused approximately $79.6 operated a global commodity trading business, which included trading in fuel oil. employees (including those who worked at Chemoil Corporation, which was majority-owned by Glencore Ltd.’s Gulf Coast High-Sulfur Fuel Oil).

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OCTOBER 27, 2012

IBM has launched the Smarter Energy Research Institute, a new industrial research collaboration model aimed at accelerating innovation across the global energy and utilities market. Hydro-Québec (Canada), Alliander (Netherlands) and DTE Energy (USA) join as the first members.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

billion barrel—third globally, behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. To be sited at Jie Yang City, Guangdong Province, the Nanhai refinery will be operational in early 2015, with a capacity to process 400,000 barrels of heavy and extra heavy crude oil per day (400 kbd) from the Orinoco Oil Belt. the oil sands).

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APRIL 1, 2012

The latest news on global warming could not be worse. And last week’s The Planet Under Pressure conference, made up of planet’s top scientific experts on the climate issued an urgent plea for action as we reach the tipping points for runaway global warming from which there will be no reversal or respite.

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