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Mazda3 global production reaches 5M units

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Mazda Motor Corporation announced that the total production volume of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached five million units at the end of April 2016. It is manufactured at the Hofu Plant in Japan, Changan Mazda Automobile Co., in China, AutoAlliance (Thailand) and Mazda de Mexico Vehicle Operation in Mexico.

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Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors Ltd. to explore strategic alliance for joint development projects; ŠKODA to lead

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Our aim with the envisaged strategic partnership with Tata Motors is to lay the foundations in the Group and the brands that will enable us to offer customer-oriented mobility solutions in the emerging, fast-growing automobile markets, as elsewhere. million cars in 2016. billion in 2015-16. in what would become Czechoslovakia in 1918.

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

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Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). —2012 Sustainability Report. MWh per vehicle.

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Honda introduces new automotive assembly line system: Assembly Revolution Cell Line; first implementation in Thailand

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has deployed the first mass-production automobile assembly line with a main line that incorporates a flowing cell production system. Honda has named this the Assembly Revolution Cell (ARC) Line and introduced it in Honda’s new Prachinburi Plant in Thailand that became operational in March 2016. Honda Motor Co.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

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The corporate delivered its 100,000th automobile on April nineteenth, and as of June, their cumulative deliveries in China reached 120,581 EVs, in keeping with CarNewsChina knowledge. Lynk&Co was once based in 2016, and manufacturing of the primary automobile, Lynk&Co 01, began in 2017. Lynk&Co Any other Geely model.

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