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Novelis offering automakers RC5754 high recycled content aluminum alloy

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RC5754 was developed with Jaguar Land Rover and serves as a key component of Jaguar’s REALCAR (REcycled ALuminium CAR) project. First introduced in the new Jaguar XE, the RC5754 alloy will also be featured in all new and legacy Jaguar Land Rover models.

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JLR sees U.S. as key to good fortune for reborn Jaguar logo

Baua Electric

LONDON – Jaguar Land Rover sees the U.S. as key to the year good fortune of the Jaguar logo, which is being reinvented and can relaunch this date with automobiles that “radically reimagine” the marque’s iconic fashions such because the E-Kind. Ford paid $2.5 JLR can even arrange Jaguar-only ’boutiques.’

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

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Chinese automaker BYD may have been founded in 2003, but it wasn’t until 2008 that it garnered mainstream attention when Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffet, bought a 10 per cent stake in its parent company. Aixam-Mega: The French automobile maker has actually been around since 1983 and is Europe’s largest producer of microcars.

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NHTSA Sets MY 2011 CAFE Standards; Estimates Industry-Wide 27.3 mpg

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This alternative, which corresponds to the Optimized Mid-2 scenario described in the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the new CAFE released by NHTSA in October 2008 ( earlier post ), is the one the agency is adopting for MY 2011 rules. mpg (320 gCO 2 /mi).

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Audi’s production electric e-tron quattro may set a new standard for vehicle handling; advanced vehicle dynamics control

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Since those days, the industry has developed a large body of knowledge about the mechanistic explanations of the behavior of automobiles in response to the forces of movement. The engineers had made all the parts function excellently, but when put together the whole was seldom satisfactory.”. Electric vehicle dynamics.

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