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New Mazda bio-based engineering plastic features high-quality finish without paint; suitable for exterior parts

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Mazda Motor Corporation, in conjunction with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, has developed a new bio-based engineering plastic that can be used for exterior design parts for automobiles. The new plastic will help Mazda to reduce its impact on the environment in a number of ways.

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Mazda beginning road trials of advanced safety vehicle; streetcar-to-vehicle communication system

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Mazda Motor Corporation will begin testing its advanced safety vehicle, the Mazda Atenza ASV-5, on public roads from September 2013. The vehicle will be used to test a driving safety support system which utilizes intelligent transport systems (ITS) jointly developed by industrial, academic and government organizations.

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Mazda Demios To Be Base Architecture for Electric Vehicle Test Project

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Mazda Demio. Mazda Motor Corporation will provide three Mazda Demios (Mazda2s) for conversion to EVs for a project in collaboration with Itochu Corporation and other companies in conjunction with Tsukuba City to test a low-carbon transport system which uses clean energy. Mazda Motor Corporation: Electric vehicles).

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Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Volvo and home dealerships promote

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” Around the nation, Buick is purchasing again franchises from sellers who don’t wish to construct the specified funding to organize their retail outlets for electrical automobiles. ” The post Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Volvo and home dealerships promote appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Auto Industry and Utilities Urge President Obama to Create to National Electric Fuel Task Force to Accelerate Plug-in Adoption

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Organizations representing auto manufacturers, electric utilities and the electric drive industry are calling on President Obama to establish a new National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $2.4

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Detroit auto display vows to form a comeback in 2023. However which automakers can the display trap again?

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Organizers are promising that the 2023 North American Global Detroit Auto Display will quality extra emblem participation and automobile unearths than extreme time, even supposing it’s concealed which firms plan to go back to the mid-September match. Gretchen Whitmer.

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Ford opens new plant in Chongqing; 3rd in China brings total capacity to >600K vehicles/year

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Ford Motor Company and its joint venture Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), opened a new assembly plant, CFMA Chongqing Assembly 2 or CQ2. CFMA is investing US$490 million in CQ2, which will increase its production capacity in China by 150,000 units to more than 600,000 vehicle units overall.

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