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MAY 28, 2013

an automobile production and sales joint venture of Honda in China, started construction of a third production line and a new engine plant within the property of the existing ZengCheng Plant. The third line is scheduled to become operational in 2015, with an initial annual production capacity of 120,000 units. million units.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Like many operators, the company uses diesel engine generators to provide power to refrigerated containers. Earlier post.).

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Honolulu 2015 Fuel Building 246

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

HATC), Honda’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Thailand, plans to build a new automobile production plant with an annual production capacity of 120,000 units. Combined with the capacity of the new plant, HATC’s total annual production capacity will be increased to 420,000 units in 2015. Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co.,

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

In remarks to the Economic Club in Ottawa, GM Canada president and managing director Steve Carlisle confirmed that its Canadian Engineering Center in Oshawa, Ontario, has been awarded a mandate to play a leading role in the build of autonomous driving vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Wärtsilä has launched the 31SG pure gas engine for marine market applications. The 31SG is based on the successful Wärtsilä 31 product platform; the diesel version of the engine has been recognized by Guinness World Records as being the world’s most efficient 4-stroke diesel engine. MW, at 720 and 750 rpm.

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MARCH 17, 2014

The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado uses engineering techniques and lightweight materials to create fuel-efficient pickup capability in a mass-efficient mid-size package. The 2015 Colorado 4x4 crew cab, which GM expects to be the most popular version of the new trucks, weighs 880 to 1,400 lbs (363 to 635 kg) less than a full-size truck.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Sharma, a semiconductor engineer, was instrumental in organizing the meeting for the Tokyo-based company. Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Ford will invest US$760 million to build a new assembly plant in Hangzhou, China with its joint venture Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), adding initial capacity of 250,000 units. When Hangzhou opens in 2015, Ford’s total passenger car capacity in China will increase to 1.2 million units annually, doubling current output.

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China 2015 Ford Building 236

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Registration for the Contest, which is supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is open at www.hydrogencontest.org until 16 January 2015.

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Financing Hydrogen 2015 Design 250

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JANUARY 3, 2012

plans to build another engine factory in Indonesia, tripling its output there to 150,000 units a year. The automaker will invest roughly ¥30 billion (US$390 million) to set up engine manufacturing operations from parts production to finished engines, by 2015, according to the report.

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Indonesia Suzuki Engine Building 170

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Ford Motor Company reported that it has built its two-millionth EcoBoost engine since the launch of the line in 2009. With customer demand exceeding its initial projections, Ford now expects EcoBoost production to exceed its global diesel engine production. Ford’s global EcoBoost engine family now includes the 1.0-liter

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

SAIC-GM-Wuling will build a third manufacturing base in Chongqing Municipality to keep pace with the rising demand for its vehicles. billion (US$1 billion) first phase is scheduled to open in 2015. billion (US$1 billion) first phase is scheduled to open in 2015. It will adopt GM’s global manufacturing processes and standards.

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GM Manufacturer Building Engine 225

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

2015 Jetta TDI. For 2015, Volkswagen has refined the entire sixth-generation Jetta lineup, endowing the compact with a crisper exterior design which also improves aerodynamics; an updated interior; a number of newly available driver assistance systems; and, significantly for the diesel model, the new 2.0T Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 9, 2015

liter EcoBoost engines for North America at its Cleveland Engine Plant in Ohio. This marks the first time these engines are being produced in the US. liter EcoBoost engine is available in the all-new Ford Edge, launching in first quarter of 2015. liter EcoBoost engine for Ford of Europe-built vehicles.

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Cleveland Engine Ford North America 150

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MARCH 26, 2017

V-8 turbo-diesel engine has rolled off the line at the DMAX plant in Moraine, Ohio. plant began in 1998, with the first engine rolling off the line July 17, 2000. DMAX makes the Duramax diesel engines for heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks. Employees are currently building the redesigned Duramax 6.6L

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Ohio Diesel Engine Isuzu 150

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MARCH 5, 2014

Ford’s MY 2015 F-Series Super Duty heavy-duty pickup trucks feature engine and chassis upgrades that together deliver best-in-class horsepower, torque and towing capacity. The new engine will also be featured on the MY 2016 F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks, available in spring 2015. V-10 gasoline engine. “

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Volkswagen de Mexico is investing an additional $118 million to mark the start of the second stage of its engine plant located in the Guanajuato Puerto Interior industrial park. The additional funding will be used to manufacture new components that will be used in a new version of the EA888 turbocharged and direct-injection TSI engine.

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Engine 2016 Mexico 2014 210

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota showcased both its latest fuel cell vehicle concept (the FCV Concept, earlier post ), showing what the four-door mid-size sedan will look like in Radiant Blue; and the camouflage-taped engineering prototype used for extensive and extreme on-road testing in North America for more than a year. Yes, there are significant challenges.

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2015 Hydrogen Toyota Fuel 332

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

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. The global EcoBoost engine family is the cornerstone of Ford’s near-term sustainability plan.

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Fuel Economy China Economy 2015 236

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JANUARY 31, 2013

General Motors will invest $200 million into its Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters to build a new 138,000 sq.-ft. Under the expansion plan, engineering development work currently being done at leased facilities in Wixom, Mich.; test wing, which is expected to be completed during the second half of 2014. Castleton, Ind.

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GM Engine 2014 Sustainable Transportation 218

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

In a post on Google+, Google engineers announced that they have assembled a fully functional prototype for fully autonomous driving; the vehicle unveiled earlier this year was an “early mockup”. The prototype is headed for Google’s test track; engineers are targeting road-testing in Northern California in 2015.

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Google Building 2015 California 225

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JUNE 25, 2014

Ford has revealed the all-new 2015 Edge. Two new EcoBoost engines. The 2015 Edge, now based on the same global platform as the Ford Fusion, will feature three engine options in North America, two of which are new powerplants: a standard twin-scroll 2.0-liter liter V6 engine will also be offered. Click to enlarge.

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2015 Ford America Europe 210

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The name “IDEAL” stands for Industry-Driven Engineering for Autonomous Logistics. Since 2015, the innovations team from BMW Group Logistics has been working on future-focused industry 4.0 The Smart Transport Robot, STR, was developed in 2015 in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute.

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BMW Companies 2015 Transportation 418

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MARCH 10, 2015

2015 Golf SportWagen. With the entry of the new 2015 Golf SportWagen, Volkswagen of America is bringing some dynamic and reasonably priced fuel-efficient verve to the non-luxury wagon segment in the US. Equipped with these latest engines, the Golf SportWagen performs, well, like a Golf. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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2015 Fuel Economy Light Diesel 150

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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Sustainable Transportation 2015 2016 Transportation 150

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MARCH 31, 2015

the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines ( earlier post ), has been awarded a $14-million project by the National Advanced Mobility Consortium to support research and development work of the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). Achates Power, Inc.,

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APRIL 26, 2022

The IEEE senior member established an innovation lab for budding entrepreneurs at La Trobe University , in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an engineering professor. The project brought engineers together with computer scientists and health care professionals. He’s now doing so, in a number of ways. I’ve really taken that to heart.”

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Bosnia Herzegovina Building Czech Republic 98

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APRIL 9, 2014

2015 Focus four-door sedan. liter EcoBoost engine with a new six-speed manual transmission and standard Auto Start-Stop feature in the US-spec Focus. liter EcoBoost engine is a transverse-mounted, inline three-cylinder turbo gasoline direct fuel injection with Ti-VCT. gasoline direct injection engine, the new Focus 1.0-liter

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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. The Volkswagen Group is building seven new plants in China. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.

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2015 China Production Climate Protection 218

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MAY 3, 2013

CFM International has completed design freeze for the advanced LEAP-1B engine, the exclusive powerplant for the Boeing 737 MAX, paving the way for the first full engine to test in mid-2014. This milestone is effectively the point at which the engine configuration is set, or frozen.

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International Design Engine Fuel 218

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Pinto has chosen Ventech Engineers International LLC (Ventech) as the project’s EPC Contractor.

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Building Energy 2013 Gas 252

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015. —Sue Cischke, group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5

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Water 2015 Ford 2000 257

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JUNE 25, 2012

DFL), Nissan’s joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group in China, will build a new manufacturing facility in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China with an investment of up to RMB 5 billion (USD $785 million). China is our largest market today and will continue to be one of Nissan’s most important engines of growth. Click to enlarge.

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2015 2014 Nissan China 236

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JUNE 30, 2016

Management consulting firm Zinnov released its latest study conducted on the Automotive R&D Globalization Landscape, presenting a global engineering R&D analysis on the top 60 automotive companies and how are they leveraging the global R&D ecosystems to improve engineering output and efficiency. —Sidhant Rastogi, Partner, Zinnov.

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MAY 26, 2015

To mark the 10 th anniversary of the foundation of GM Powertrain Europe Turin, GM President Dan Ammann visited the engineering site and announced plans to strengthen the collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino, further expanding the engineering development center. liter diesel engine starting from the second half of 2015.

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GM Europe Diesel Engine 150

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

It covers approximately 200,000 square feet in an existing building on the Bosch Charleston campus. An additional approximately 75,000 square feet will be added onto the existing building to make room for future production. It produces high-pressure fuel injectors and pumps for internal combustion engines.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In December 2012, Hyundai will begin production of the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover vehicle at its Ulsan manufacturing facility in Korea, with a target of building up to 1,000 vehicles by 2015. The program was launched in 1998 with a roadmap targeting series production of fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2012 and consumer sales by 2015.

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