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Nissan launches new Note Aura in Japan; enhanced e-POWER electrified powertrain

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Nissan launched the all-new Note Aura premium compact car in Japan, with sales planned to start in autumn. The all-new Note Aura comes exclusively with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ), a key part of the company’s electrification strategy under the Nissan NEXT global business transformation plan.

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GM Suspending 2010 Malibu Hybrid Production; Next-Generation Li-Ion Mild Hybrid Expected for 2011

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The Malibu hybrid shares components with two other GM mild hybrids: the Saturn Aura and Vue hybrids. GM’s next-generation mild hybrid system, which was announced in 2008 ( earlier post ), is scheduled to debut in MY 2011, powered by a lithium-ion battery from Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd (HVE). Jack Rosebro.

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Top BLDC Motor Manufacturers in India

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MRS ELECTRO POWER PVT LTD MRS ELECTRO POWER PVT LTD PROMOTING BRAND AURA, TRUSTED SINCE 1991, A BRAND FOR LAST 20 YEARS IS PIONEER IN OFFERING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT LEVERAGES NATURAL ENERGY AS WELL AS BATTERY-POWERED ENERGY TO MINIMIZE THE RELIANCE AND ALSO THE ONUS ON ELECTRICITY. Electric Machine Electric Machine?

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Study finds power law scaling relationship between urban population and NO2 pollution

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Even though larger cities are typically more energy efficient with lower per-capita emissions, more people still translates to more pollution.) This greater concentration occurs even though cities with higher populations have higher energy efficiency and, therefore, lower per capita NO 2 emissions. parts per billion (U.S.),

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Wärtsilä supplying liquid bio-fuel powered main engines for new Finnish cargo vessel

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Refined biofuel qualities such as transesterified biodiesel or hydrogenated renewable diesel can also be used, but Wärtsilä notes that crude LBF can be used instead of transesterified biodiesel or hydrogenated renewable diesel, giving a much better energy balance. STX Finland is part of the international STX Europe Group.

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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

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The innovation program also includes a new 8-speed automatic transmission and, later in 2011, testing of a new Flywheel KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) will start on public roads ( earlier post ). But they are perceived entirely differently because of the proportions of their individual body parts and between their body parts.

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Plug-ins to play part in GM future

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Currently Saturn sells two hybrid vehicles - the VUE and Aura with GM hybrid system - and was also scheduled to offer a two-mode hybrid Vue with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version scheduled for 2011 to be used in a test fleet with the US Department of Energy.

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