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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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AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Technologically, the auto industry could well be on the cusp of its biggest set of changes since the invention of the internal-combustion engine more than 100 years ago. million units in 2011 and only 13.6

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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Speaking on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show, Prof. Winterkorn introduced Future Tracks at the Geneva Show in 2014, saying that over the next few years, the automotive industry will face one of the greatest upheavals since the invention of the automobile. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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PBL Study Finds Developed Countries Proposals for Copenhagen Fall Short for Reaching 2 °C Climate Objective

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In addition to the analysis of the current proposals, the report describes a scenario with reductions that would limit global warming to 2 degrees above the pre-industrial level, based on comparable efforts of Annex-I countries. The least-developed countries would be exempt from any legally binding emission reduction efforts, up to 2020.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Will EU demand for biofuel mean starvation for world’s poorest?

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The controversy surrounding the use of biofuel in road fuel has heightened as one African publication accuses the biofuel industry of taking food directly out of the mouths of the hungry. Should fossil fuel suppliers be stopped from exceeding legal obligations on biofuel? per cent of the total UK road transport fuel supply.

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