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JANUARY 19, 2016

Dürr will deliver two primer stations with 16 painting robots and three stations for rocker panel coating to the automobile manufacturer. Dürr produced its 5,000 th in 2011; it took only five years to sell the next 5,000. As 8- or 9-axis swing-arm robots, they also paint the cargo spaces of commercial vehicles.

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JULY 11, 2012

The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. grams in 2011 and a mandatory target of 130 grams in 2015. and limited to a cumulative figure of 20,000 vehicles per manufacturers over the duration of the scheme.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

ZAP is a 15-year-old California EV company and Jonway Auto is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jonway Group, a 20-year-old Chinese vehicle manufacturer. Jonway’s volume manufacturing capacity gives ZAP a strong manufacturing base with the means of commercializing its innovative EV technologies. million in cash.

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MAY 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market. Earlier post.) The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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Ford SUV Michigan Tax 186

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JANUARY 22, 2010

US-based electric vehicle provider ZAP and China auto manufacturer Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co. have entered a commercial agreement to produce electric sport utility vehicles (SUVs), cars and other electric vehicles in China for domestic and global distribution. The Jonway A380. Click to enlarge. liter Mitsubishi engine.)

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Their assessment is based on utilizing a sugar cane mill for energy production; a hybrid automobile powered by an internal combustion engine that consumes ethanol with an efficiency of 15 km/liter (35 mpg US, or 6.67 l/100km), which corresponds to the efficiency of a commercially available automobile assuming 19.55

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APRIL 5, 2011

RPS policies as of March 2011. In contrast, China’s 12 th five-year plan, March 5, 2011, requires 11.4 As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. Perspective by The Townsend Company.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. It is clean and flexible.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

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APRIL 1, 2010

Final MY 2011 and MY 2012-2016 passenger car fuel economy targets, based on vehicle footprint. The CAFE levels that must be met by the fleet of each manufacturer will be determined by computing the sales-weighted harmonic average of the targets applicable to each of the manufacturer’s passenger cars and light trucks.

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy Light 170

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

In order to further the commercialization of hydrogen-powered vehicles, Mercedes-Benz is involved in the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), an association of automobile manufacturers, energy suppliers, government agencies and technology companies, as well as in the newly formed Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA).

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JUNE 12, 2015

The e-gas project, announced in May 2011, was Audi’s first foray into e-fuels. In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. Earlier post.) The policy side; test case in Switzerland.

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JUNE 16, 2011

This approach allows automobile manufacturers to create packages of technologies that can be tailored to meet specific cost and effectiveness targets, as opposed to developing diesel or full hybrid alternatives that offer a single large benefit, but at a significant cost increase. National Academies Press, 2011).

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JULY 30, 2013

The production of the i3 marks the first time an automobile manufacturing plant in Germany has installed wind turbines on site to directly power production.) To make sure the BMW i3 can go into production on schedule at the end of 2013, the plant has been producing fibres ever since the end of 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Individual manufacturers will be required to comply with a single fuel economy level that is based on the distribution of its production among the footprints of its vehicles. In the past, the baseline was the manufacturers’ confidential plans for each model year; in the new analysis, the baseline is each manufacturer’s MY 2008 fleet.

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210