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AvtoVAZ launches 3 concepts at Moscow Motor Show; collaboration with Renault-Nissan

Green Car Congress

AvtoVAZ, the largest automaker based in Russia, a part of Rostec Corporation, introduced three new LADA concept cars at the Moscow International Motor Show 2014. Having become a shareholder of AvtoVAZ in 2008, Rostec appointed a group of managers to develop AvtoVAZ in 2009. One such market is the Middle East.

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Alaska EV company seeking crowd-funding for low-volume production AWD electric roadster

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Ethos Electric Vehicles, a small, Alaska-based company building custom electric motorcycles and automobiles, has launched a $100,000 crowd-funding campaign for reworking an existing internal combustion engine kit car—the Graber Cars’ La Bala —into a low-volume production, all-wheel drive (AWD) electric roadster.

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Don’t stop the EV music

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Jack had been making these videos since 2008,” Howard said. “He He was promoting the benefits of EVs and how they compare with ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles and talking about living off the grid. The catalyst was the high gas prices in 2008, similar to what’s been going on now,” Rickard said. “My

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Renault-Nissan jointly developing new vehicle program for growth markets; CMF-A for affordability

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The program, internally named CMF-A, covers the most affordable category of cars in the Common Module Family (CMF, earlier post ), Renault-Nissan’s modular system of vehicle architecture. The announcement marks the first all-new program developed from the ground up by Renault SAS and Nissan Motor Co.,

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Bipartisan Group of US Senators Calls on EPA to Refrain From Including Indirect Land Use Change in Biofuel Regulations

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In November 2008, several of the group had also sent a letter to then-Administrator Johnson recommending the same thing. An additional complication for the EPA methodology is that it cannot foresee or model future land use restrictions that might result from future national or international agreements or policies. Letter to the EPA.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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ISO/TS 16949 is the quality management system created by the International Organization of Standards to monitor the design, development, production and servicing of automotive components. According to Tanfield’s most recent annual report, 2007 filed in April of 2008, Smith is the world’s largest supplier of electric vans and trucks.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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