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JULY 23, 2013

Strong growth in Developing Asia-Pacific, improving stability in the EU and investment in new technologies will drive the industry forward. Autofacts forecasts annual global light vehicle assembly to reach 101 million by 2017. Megatrends driving the global automotive industry, according to the analyst group: European Union.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Joining BMW, Ford and FCA in suspension of production in the US due to COVID-19 ( earlier post ) are: Toyota is temporarily suspending production at all of its automobile and components plants in North America, including Canada, Mexico and the US, through 3 April. Tesla will suspend production at its Fremont plant on 23 March.

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MAY 2, 2019

Led by founding Managing Director Jim Adler, who also serves as executive advisor at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), Toyota AI Ventures was founded in July 2017 as a subsidiary of TRI. Sea Machines: Building autonomous control and navigation systems for the maritime industry.

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APRIL 27, 2015

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. DON'T MISS.

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MAY 13, 2016

RMX Technologies and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have signed an exclusive licensing agreement for a new technology that significantly reduces the time and energy needed in the production of carbon fiber. Overview of carbon fiber production. We found a way to cut the time by a factor of 2.5 Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. This decision takes the U.S. —Administrator Pruitt. Background. Earlier post.)

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MAY 16, 2017

Solstice yf was developed to meet the needs of the automotive industry to replace R-134a, the most widely used auto refrigerant. R-134a is a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), which many governments and industries have been looking at phasing out since the early 2000s. That number is expected to surpass 40 million by the end of 2017.

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APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. That investment will help GM step up its pace by funding facility and capacity expansion and new product programs.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Production of the Volkswagen ID., Our Modular Transverse Toolkit already proved Volkswagen is one of the most successful platform developers in the auto industry. —Christian Senger, Head of the E-mobility Product Line. Volkswagen will build the series production models of the ID family in Saxony.

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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. The facility is expected to start production in 2018. Constellium generated €5.2

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

High-voltage batteries and electric engines make up an important strategic component of future value creation in a transformed auto industry. A new building for assembly is already geared toward mixed production and future e-models. The company will phase out production of internal combustion engines by 2033.

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JULY 23, 2019

Both UVeye and MDGo have their headquarters in Tel Aviv, where Volvo Cars has been involved with DRIVE, an accelerator for young companies in the mobility sector, since 2017. Volvo Cars has made investments in two Israeli technology start-ups through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Adopting an open source approach to software development is a key part of our technology strategy and will help us to keep pace with the rapid advances happening across the auto industry. —Hisanori Takashiba, Executive General Manager of Research & Development at Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The final standards are projected result in an average industry fleet-wide level of 163 grams/mile of CO 2 in model year 2025, which is equivalent to 54.5 As part of the rulemaking establishing the model year 2017-2025 light-duty vehicle GHG standards, EPA committed to conduct a Midterm Evaluation of standards for model years 2022-2025.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Now, a new process developed at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory should make it more feasible for the auto industry to incorporate magnesium alloys into structural components. Overman et al. Click to enlarge. PNNL’s ShAPE technology is available for licensing. Stephens, T. 2017.06.062. Overman, D.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

Still remember the day I picked up my 2017 Model3. million units sold, legacy Model 3 production is ending. CEO Elon Musk himself admitted that during the Model 3’s infamous production hell, Tesla came close to dying. The Model 3 is both of these things. It was absolutely mind blowing! After an incredible 6.5

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Anyone who brakes when switching to electromobility is doing a disservice to the German auto industry.” In June, Tesla revised its application and decreased its annual water consumption estimates to 1.423 million cubic meters for Model Y production and its battery cell factory. million cubic meters of water per year.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Aleris has served the automotive industry from its facility in Duffel for many years.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Minda, CMD, Uno Minda Edited excerpts: Q: After two consecutive years of swift growth in the auto component industry ‘s performance, what is your outlook for 2024? The past two years have seen a remarkable transformation in the Indian auto and auto component industry.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Among drivers testing the vehicles were CRI staff and members of the Icelandic Automobile Association as well as several local service providers in the auto industry. CRI’s current plant has a renewable methanol production capacity of 4,000 metric ton/year. Last week, in collaboration with Geely Holdings and Zixin Industrial Co.,

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance has sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the US Environmental Protection Agency withdraw the Final Determination on the Appropriateness of the Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards under the Midterm Evaluation which EPA announced on 13 January 2017.

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MARCH 5, 2015

The announcement that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go into production within 18 months seemingly sent shockwaves through the auto industry. GM''s crosstown rival Ford, which has sold hybrids for more than 10 years but shown little love for battery-electric cars, now seems to feel the need to respond.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

EPA analysis demonstrates that compliance can be achieved through a number of different technology pathways reflecting predominantly the application of technologies already in commercial production. The Midterm Evaluation process was established as a part of the 2012 final greenhouse gas emissions standards for model years 2017-2025.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced a new project—named “Apollo”—intended provide an open, complete and reliable software platform for its partners in the automotive and autonomous driving industry to develop their own autonomous driving systems with reference vehicles and hardware platform.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With Pininfarina’s relationship with Ferrari essentially coming to an end in 2017 with the release of the Ferrari-designed La Ferrari, it was no surprise that the famous Italian brand decided to build a car of its own. Still, the fact that its first offering, the Pininfarina Batista, would be electric was a shock to many.

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MAY 17, 2009

In addition, the bill allocates 3% of the emissions allowances (under the cap-and-trade scheme defined in the bill) through 2017 and 1% from 2018 through 2025 be allocated for investments in electric vehicles and other advanced automobile technology and deployment.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2022

Tesla trades at about $1,000 per share today, which is still quite reasonable considering the company’s product roadmap and potential. From 2017 to 2019, for example, the meetings were held in June. However, initiating another stock split later this year would allow more investors to buy into the company at a lower price.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The automotive MCUs employing this new 28nm process technology are slated for sample shipment and mass production in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Four years after working together on 40nm MCU platform and production, the two companies are now extending their collaboration to develop 28nm MCUs. and social infrastructure fields.

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JUNE 6, 2023

. “Liz brings deep, relevant domain experience — including leveraging the Internet of Things to create great value for customers — from both outside and inside the global auto industry,” Lawler stated in a commentary. Door has served as Whirlpool’s government vice chairman of world strategic sourcing since 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Alliance, described the partnership as “ one of the most productive in the auto industry. ”. Production of the Mercedes-Benz truck at both plants will start before the end of the decade. Production will begin at Nissan’s Sunderland plant in the UK later this year.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Judging from the customs data for the first eight months of this year, the contribution rate of my country’s new energy vehicle exports to the growth of automobile exports reached 26.7%, becoming a new bright spot in the foreign trade of the automobile industry. Demand for charging piles soars.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Advancements such as connectivity, big data, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence are driving new economic models for automakers, and most see tremendous revenue potential and consumer value in leveraging driver and vehicle data to offer mobility services, according to the 2017 KPMG Global Automotive Executive Study.

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MARCH 7, 2013

The auto industry should play a central role in the energy discussion, Akerson noted, because light-duty vehicles account for about 60% of total transportation energy usage in the United States. Earlier post.). Energy policy. Everywhere you look there are opportunities to seize the energy high ground.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The bill in question, HB 3994, aims to update and change parts of existing Oklahoma statutes related to the state’s auto industry. until March 2017, and he was the Dealer/Owner of Dobrinski of Kingfisher, Inc., “This bill, as introduced, is far from the finished product. Oklahoma Senator Mary B.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

Bottom: The Fall 2017 version of the roadmap. This condition has hampered the commercialization of HCCI, despite years of work by the auto industry. Target figures for SKYACTIV-X output performance (*data as of August 2017, during the development process). Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2021

In September 2016, Kapil Shelke’s Tork Motors unveiled its first product, claiming to be India’s first electric motorcycle. The company has since raised money from big players in the Indian auto industry, including Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal, and Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of Tata Sons. Tork Motors.

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