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Turkey’s Karsan Is Building The Fully Electric Buses Customers Want, Today

CleanTechnica EVs

Turkey has a decades long history of producing automobiles for both domestic and global markets. Specifically, Turkey has established itself as a key builder of commercial vehicles, with the majority of those flowing through export channels to Europe, thanks to favorable customs agreements established in 1995.

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Antalya Metropolitan Municipality and Renault preparing a Zero Emissions Partnership

Green Car Congress

Antalya Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey and Renault signed an agreement to deploy a program to prepare a Zero Emissions Partnership. The parties have decided to start a work to promote electric vehicles which are manufactured in Oyak Renault Automobile Plants in Turkey within the boundaries of Antalya.

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Little automakers and providers challenged by means of pristine cybersecurity rules

Baua Electric

It doesn’t assemble monetary sense for the corporations to manufacture cars with other requirements, so they’re more likely to undertake the rules throughout their product lineup, professionals advised Automobile Information. Firms in China will most probably do the similar. The executives who are living within the U.S.,

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Fiat Group and Guangzhou Automobile Group Creating JV for Chinese Market

Green Car Congress

Fiat Group and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. The Fiat Linea was first manufactured in the joint venture’s Bursa plant in Turkey (at an annual production of 60,000 units) and marketed in a number of European and non-European countries starting in the second half of 2007. Click to enlarge. The car was developed by Tofas A.S.,

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IHS Automotive: global vehicle production to increase by 21M units by 2021; China to account for half of the increment

Green Car Congress

Global automobile production will increase by 21 million units by 2021, and has grown by 25 million units since 2009 as the industry continues to recover from the impact of the global economic recession, according to a forecast by IHS Automotive. Japanese and South Korean production will decline as local OEMs focus their efforts overseas.

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Fiat to provide Opel with Combo successor based on Doblo

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The Automobile Sector of the Fiat Group and Adam Opel GmbH signed a contract agreement whereby Fiat will supply vehicles comprising of several variants to Opel commencing December 2011. The new vehicles, based on the same platform as the Fiat Doblo models, will be produced at the Tofas plant in Bursa, Turkey where the Doblo is manufactured.

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Dow and AKSA forming JV for carbon fiber and derivatives; up to $1B investment in project within 5 years

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The Dow Chemical Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dow Europe GmbH, and Turkey-based AKSA Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.?. signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and commercialize carbon fiber and derivatives. wind energy technologies and construction, particularly for earthquake-resistant buildings.