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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

Now, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is showing off North America’s first electric fire engine from Austria-based Rosenbauer Group. Now, the fully networked engine is touring the country and boasting innovative safety features, excellent driving dynamics and superior maneuverability. How Do Electric Engines Compare?

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Magna aims to sell EVs in China through JV with BAIC

China EV

One joint venture will focus on engineering, the other will manufacture pure electric vehicles. That announcement proclaimed the agreement was between BAIC and Magna Steyr, the Austria-based contract vehicle manufacturer that is part of Magna International. Drobnak heads up Magna Steyr’s Asia business.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Initial order from Sinotruk for UQM Powerphase DT drive systems for pilot trials; beginning of commercial partnership

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The UQM PowerPhase DT pairs any of UQM’s PowerPhase HD propulsion systems with a two-speed Eaton transmission and Pi Innovo’s transmission control unit—an application-specific variant of the OpenECU M220 controller, with model-based controls developed by Pi Innovo’s systems engineering team. CNHTC) is the parent company of Sinotruk.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low‑cost methods of robotic space exploration. —Luca de Meo, Audi Board Member for Sales and Marketing. Click to enlarge.

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