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Nidec to form electric traction motor JV with a subsidiary of Guangzhou Automobile Group

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Nidec has been expanding and strengthening its automotive motor business ( earlier post ), one of the company’s strategically critical businesses, by setting the business’ target sales amount to 700 billion to one trillion yen (US$6.5 GAC Components mainly manufactures automobile interior parts, electric components, etc.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. The government sees environmental upsides and a chance for its car makers to gain ground on foreign rivals, since electric vehicles are simpler to engineer than gasoline-engine ones.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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