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Renault-Nissan Alliance delivers €4.3B synergy target early; autonomous drive and connectivity expected to deliver major savings

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The Common Module Family and cross-production continue to reduce costs, while the development of technologies including autonomous drive and vehicle connectivity is expected to generate major savings moving forward. In 2015, Renault began selling the Kwid in India, followed by the launch of the Redi-Go by Datsun in mid-2016.

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Daimler’s moovel Group acquires Familonet GmbH, provider of location messenger app Familonet

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In 2014, Familonet won the MobileTech Award and Webfuture Award as one of the most innovative German mobile companies and was awarded as one of the best apps of 2016 on the Google Play Store by Google. The core markets are Germany, USA, Brazil, India and Turkey. The Familonet app is used by more than 2 million people worldwide.

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

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Equipment damaged in the attacks include: radiation sensors monitoring spent fuel; an air-separation unit that makes hydrogen gas used to cool the plant’s turbine generators ; and a substation connecting Zaporizhzhia to 750-kilovolt transmission lines. But Crimea, occupied since 2014, remains on the Russian grid.

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Ford planning to cut 18% of production capacity, 13% of workforce in Europe; anticipating more than $1.5B loss in Europe in 2012

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Manufacture of Transit will be consolidated in Ford’s principal commercial vehicle manufacturing facility operated by Ford Otosan in Kocaeli, Turkey, in 2013. liter diesel engine in Dagenham that will power future Ford vehicles from 2016. UK operations will remain a Ford center of excellence for powertrain development and production.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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E7 economies—the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey. Each country is modelled individually but connected with linkages via US productivity growth (known as the global technological frontier). Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).