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Toyota showcases experimental hydrogen-powered GR Yaris

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While the Mirai employs chemical reaction in the fuel cells to generate energy, the experimental GR Yaris features an internal combustion engine with hydrogen as the fuel. Japan’s auto industry must succeed in building passenger vehicles. —Kiichiro Toyoda, Founder of Toyota Motor Corporation (March, 1952).

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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Specifically, the firm estimates US auto sales will reach just 12.7 AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 million units in 2011 and only 13.6 million in 2012. million units in lost vehicle sales this year.

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Toyota once again ranked as worst automaker on climate lobbying globally

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InfluenceMap routinely ranks automakers and auto industry associations based on how much they lobby to stop climate policy goals. On production plans, most automakers score poorly, with only 3 of the 15 automakers analyzed having commitments compatible with the International Energy Agency’s target of 66% EVs by 2030.

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ZF opens state-of-the-art technology centre in Mexico | Autocar Professional

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Global technology company ZF officially opened the campus that will house four corporate function hubs for North America and the company’s first R&D centre in Mexico, on April 4, 2024. In February, Posco International approved the construction of a second plant in Mexico.

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ACMA awards 59 companies for excellence in production, innovation, localisation, exports – ET Auto

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Vice President, Unit Head at HMIL Procurement, Hyundai; Vipin J Kaul, Director-Sourcing (India ABO) Purchasing at Cummins India; B Padmanabha, Executive Vice President at Toyota Kirloskar Motors; and Angela Mans, Head of Foreign Trade and International Relations (VDA), Germany.

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How a possible UAW collision would have important ramifications on auto logistics

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7 chapter of trucking corporate Yellow Corp., A collision would additional complicate trade for transportation firms and feature “significant” results in the end, stated Thomas Goldsby, a lecturer on the College of Tennessee’s International Provide Chain Institute.

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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

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Wu co-founded GSR Ventures in 2004, following a series of senior-level positions with Nortel Networks, Shanghai ASMC, Shanghai Nortel Semiconductors Corporation and Guangdong Nortel Telecom Corporation. CEO, Protean Electric and a 32-year auto industry veteran responsible for the development and production of the GM EV-1.

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