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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated Aura Systems ’s AuraGen motor/generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle delivered to the United States Postal Service fleet (USPS). Aura Systems. The original founders left in 2002 and from 2002 to 2005, Aura had a number of new management teams. Click to enlarge.

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

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General Motors has announced that there will be no retail production of the Chevrolet Malibu hybrid for model year (MY) 2010 due to “elevated inventory levels of the 2009 model.” A limited amount of 2010 Malibu hybrids may be produced to fulfill fleet sales requests. 2008 Malibu hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Maruti, Hyundai, Tata, M&M and Toyota hit best-ever sales in FY24 | Autocar Professional

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Of these seven OEMs, Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor India, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Toyota Kirloskar Motor have each recorded their best-ever fiscal year sales, thereby contributing to the industry’s sterling performance. million units, up 10% on the 1.60

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Plug-ins to play part in GM future

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In an online blog, General Motors’ (GM) vice chairman Tom Stephens stated that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of its four core brands followings its’ restructuring. GM is planning initial delivery of plug-in hybrid vehicles for use in fleets to the DOE and EPRI in 2011.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well. But it is almost universally agreed that the supply gap across those four metals to get to a fully electrified vehicle fleet is more than $10 trillion worth of those metals. What’s the end game there? Goldman: Yeah, it’s a great question.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The Cadillac CTS/CTS-V is on Car and Drivers Top Ten list and in the July 2009 issue Motor Trend said “ Yet where it really matters, as a performance sedan, the CTS-V soundly spanks the BMW M5. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. It also offers better fuel economy than the M5.

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News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

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2024 ID.Buzz RWD Single, rear-mounted motor 282 horsepower 82 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery Single speed transmission 11 kW on-board charger Top Speed (electronically limited): 99 miles per hour Driving Range: 262 miles (est.) The post News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. Story by John Faulkner.

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