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GM and Isuzu investing $175M for plant for diesel engine components

Green Car Congress

General Motors and Isuzu announced a $175-million investment through their DMAX joint venture to build an all-new, diesel engine components plant in Brookville, Ohio. DMAX is 60% owned by GM, 40% owned by Isuzu Diesel Services of America, Inc. —Gerald Johnson, GM’s executive vice president of Global Manufacturing.

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Junkyard Find: 2005 Pontiac Sunfire

The Truth About Cars

GM began producing cars on its J Platform beginning in 1981 , and the J-Body proved to be a tremendous global sales success for The General. Outside of North America, there were Isuzu Askas , Opel Asconas , Holden Camiras , Chevrolet Monzas … and so many Cavaliers! In its heyday, the J-Car was assembled in factories on five continents.

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Suzuki Motor Corp and Daihatsu partners for smaller electric cars 

Electric Vehicles India

As per the partnership, the Suzuki and Daihatsu will own 10 per cent stake in the joint venture, with the other stakeholders such as Isuzu Motors and Hino Motors while Toyota will have 60 per cent of stake in the partnership. The company in a major initiative taken a step forward by unveiling the Toyota bZ4X Concept.

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RIZON class 4 and 5 electric MD trucks arrive in Canada

Baua Electric

Canada is very advanced regarding green energy and infrastructure and is a natural next step for RIZON’s second market,” explains Andreas Deuschle, the Global Head of RIZON. “We These customers might be new to Daimler, or looking to replace an aging fleet of Isuzu or (more likely) Mitsubishi Fuso cabovers with something a little more modern.

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A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion

EV Central

It was a Mazda dealer that allowed Peter Dutton to wander around this week, rubbishing Labor’s plans to save everyone money on their fuel bills while saving the environment at least a tiny bit, and to drop his factless truth bombs about how good we are already and how much it’s all going to drive up the prices of our beloved utes.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. Geo renamed the Nova as the Geo Prizm and added other models jointly produced with Isuzu and Suzuki in North America and Japan, but separated them from its “American” cars.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

The check in was at 1330 hrs - and there were no unsanitized rooms available, so we decided to take an Ola to go to Kropex Motors, the Tata Motors dealer at Singasandra. We returned back and the dealer flagged us off at around 1515 hrs - with crackered confetti! He reached the hotel around 1145 hrs. He also owned a MG eZS for a year.