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Three emerging and converging factors—connectivity, autonomy and transport-as-a-service—will fundamentally change the automotive industry over the next few decades, according to Mike Abelson, GM’s VP of Strategy and Global Portfolio Planning. US ridesharing company Lyft had 85 million rides in 2015; China’s DiDi had 1.5

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The 12 th Five-year Plan for China’s auto industry reportedly will make developing new-energy vehicles the top priority. China is targeting annual new-energy automobile sales of 1 million units by 2015, according to the China Association for Automobile Manufacturers. People’s Daily.

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Dr. Jochem Heizmann, said that it was planned to offer vehicles with an electrified powertrain from 2014/2015. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The Carbon Core body structure of the new BMW 7 Series has been awarded the EuroCarBody Award 2015 at the 17 th Global Car Body Benchmarking Conference. In designing the body with Carbon Core, expertise was used from the development of BMW i automobiles, the passenger cells of which are made entirely of CFRP. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

HySiLabs, a France-based developer of a siloxane liquid carrier for hydrogen, announced a €13-million Series A financing led by Equinor Ventures, and joined by the European Innovation Council Fund, EDP Ventures and PLD Automobile, with the support of historical investors Kreaxi, Région Sud Investissement and CAAP Création.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

2015 forecast share by region. In its latest Global Auto Report , Scotiabank forecasts record global car sales in 2015, with the total market advancing 4% over 2014, reaching more than 74 million units. Global growth will mainly be driven by China, where Scotiabank expects auto demand to grow 7% in 2015 to 19.36 million to 17.0

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JANUARY 14, 2011

A coalition of 13 major Japanese automakers and energy companies—including Toyota, Honda and Nissan—are joining together to expand the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) in 2015 and develop the hydrogen supply network throughout Japan.

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JULY 29, 2015

years, based on a snapshot of vehicles in operation (VIO) taken 1 January 2015, according to IHS Automotive. million (2.1%) since last year and the highest annual increase the auto industry has seen in the US since IHS began tracking VIO growth. As of Q1 2015, the average length of ownership for a new vehicle is 77.8 until 2018.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

and TEAM Industries, Inc. The agreement also provides for royalties with commercialization volume milestones beginning in 2015. Fallbrook Technologies Inc. Earlier post.).

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MAY 6, 2014

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA) Chrysler Brand will launch two plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) over the next several years, said Al Gardner, President and CEO of the Chrysler Brand, during the FCA Investor Day presentations at Auburn Hills, Mi. Much more progress will come as gasoline and diesel engine technologies converge. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

In the automotive industry, PMs are extensively used in certain components (e.g. As global automobile ownership and annual end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) generation exceeded 1 billion and 40 million per year in 2010, respectively, ELVs have become a promising secondary resource pool for PMs.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Toray Industries, Inc. has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Daimler AG to develop automobile parts made of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 7, 2023

India is the world’s fifth-largest automobile market, with a strong demand for sustainable and eco-friendly transportation options. The electric vehicle (EV) industry in India is gaining momentum as the government and private players focus on developing the necessary infrastructure and increasing consumer awareness.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

China’s central government plans to implement a new policy in the first half of this year to encourage auto industry consolidation and further the development of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a recent news conference. China Daily. of the total.

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MARCH 4, 2021

by Lewis Black, CEO of Almonty Industries. As manufacturers set to ramp product back up to produce everything from automobiles, airplanes and construction tools, they will begin to return to normal production cycles. Editor’s Note: The principal business of Toronto, Canada-based Almonty Industries Inc.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Established automotive industry companies—not Silicon Valley—are leading the development of autonomous driving technology, according to a new report from the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. Toyota and Hyundai take the second and third places.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Hybrid electric locomotive sales will have an increasing presence in global rail markets between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. In North America, a high-profile hybrid locomotive product (Railpower’s Green Goat, earlier post ) faced a serious setback in the mid-2000s that still haunts the industry today.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The signing automobile manufacturers strongly anticipate that from 2015 onwards, a “ quite significant ” number—a “ few hundred thousand units ” over the initial products’ lifecycles—of fuel cell electric vehicles could be commercialized.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Honda and Google have been collaborating since 2015 with the broader automotive industry to introduce the Android platform to automobiles. Honda and Google have agreed to integrate Google’s in-vehicle connected service into an all-new model that will come to market in the second half of 2022 in North America.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

With the large-scale popularization of new energy vehicles and strong policy support, the scale of China’s industry has grown rapidly. The number of new energy vehicles in China has been growing rapidly since 2015; by 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in China reached 7.84 million, up 59.3% million, accounting for 81.6%

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MAY 9, 2014

Global automobile production will increase by 21 million units by 2021, and has grown by 25 million units since 2009 as the industry continues to recover from the impact of the global economic recession, according to a forecast by IHS Automotive.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The EU must continue to allow the use of lead-based batteries in vehicles as they are essential for the needs of future generations of European cars, according to the automotive and automotive battery industries in Europe. Following the consultation the Commission is expected to release its opinion in the first half of 2015.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Currently high quality magnets, which are used in various applications such as automobiles, household appliances, medical equipment etc. Practically, it is impossible to produce L1 0 FeNi magnet similar to meteorites industrially because the order-disorder transition temperature of L1 0 FeNi is too low 320 °C. —Makino et al.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS)—the rebirthed Saab—and Dongfeng Motor Corporation (Dongfeng) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to achieve global industrial synergies. This cooperation is one of the steps for NEVS to become a front-runner in the automotive industry, with focus on electric vehicles.

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JUNE 20, 2012

The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and several industrial companies signed a joint Letter of Intent to expand the network of hydrogen filling stations in Germany from 15 to 50. Mobility using hydrogen is already being extensively and successfully tested for everyday use.

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APRIL 20, 2015

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. FHI), the manufacturer of Subaru automobiles, announced that cumulative sales of Subaru models equipped with the EyeSight advanced driver assist system ( earlier post ) surpassed 300,000 units (308,333 units) in Japan at the end of March 2015.

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JULY 6, 2016

This plant, located in San Luis Potosí, will allow Constellium to respond to increasing demand for lightweight, high-strength aluminium Crash Management Systems and automotive structures for the expanding auto industry in Mexico. billion of revenue in 2015. Constellium generated €5.2

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At present, the domestic charging infrastructure industry has achieved certain results, and the “mileage anxiety” of new energy vehicle travel has also been somewhat alleviated. From 2015 to 2022, the number of new energy vehicles will increase steadily. The surge of new energy vehicles, charging piles stand in the wind.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Steel can easily deliver the weight savings required to meet federally mandated fuel economy targets for most vehicles, according to a new 300-page analysis by the steel-industry information service World Steel Dynamics : “AutoBody Warfare: Aluminum Attack.” Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It will be joined later in the fall of 2014 by the Audi A3 Cabriolet; A3 TDI clean diesel sedan; the high-performance S3 sedan; and in early 2015, the A3 Sportback e-tron gasoline electric plug-in hybrid (PHEV). According to the ECE standard for plug-in hybrid automobiles, the five-door model consumes on average just 1.5

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

LADA Vesta, based on a new Russian platform B/C and developed by AvtoVAZ engineers in collaboration with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, will be produced in Izhevsk, Russia starting fall 2015. The new design is expected to be track launched in 2015, with the first road tests planned for spring 2015.

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JULY 23, 2019

excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. These particles are mainly emitted from automobiles, power plants and industry, and known to be hazardous to health. In 2015 the highest concentration was in Tulare County, California (13.2 million deaths between 1999 to 2015 in the USA, with 18.4 µg/m 3 and 13.2

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These are the entities testing the crash worthiness of modern automobiles, or bench-marking industry safety standards, and Euro NCAP has elected to make distracted driving a major issue moving forward. But the trend is industry wide with only a subset of brands going against the grain.

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APRIL 24, 2016

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. Click to enlarge. Toyota also announced the introduction of a 1.2-liter

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Press Release: Ministry of Heavy Industries supports 1.65 Ministry of Heavy Industries( MHI), under Phase-II of FAME India Scheme, supported about 1.65 The Ministry of Heavy Industries had sanctioned about 520 Charging Stations/ Infrastructure for Rs. lakhs electric vehicles supported under the FAME II scheme . 10,000 crores.

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Nagares develops and manufactures a variety of products for the automotive industry, including control units and power electronics for electric auxiliary components and thermal management systems, as well as power converters for e-mobility solutions. With 435 employees, the company achieved sales of approximately €70 million in 2015.

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Ford will upgrade its entire powertrain portfolio in China by bringing 20 advanced engines and transmissions to support its planned introduction of 15 new vehicles to China—the world’s largest auto market—by 2015. By 2015, EcoBoost engines will be available on most Ford branded passenger cars in China.

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