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Mercedes-Benz EQC EV soaking up summer heat of up to 50?C in trials in Spain

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Mercedes-Benz will run the Mercedes-Benz EQC electric vehicle through hot weather trials in Spain. Optimum management of these physical characteristics is the aim of the extreme tests in Spain. This serves to verify and to maintain the high quality standards. How does an almost fully charged battery respond to further charging?

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Cooperation between Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance deepening in 2016

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A new quality evaluation standard will be implemented at the facility to assure the delivery of premium-model quality. It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. A host of assistance systems will already come as standard. Click to enlarge.

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Laser Melting for Better Aircraft Engine Parts

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They need to endure 1,000 rotations every second, withstand heat of up to 2,000°C, and meet stringent safety standards. This also permits the kinds of geometries and designs we once could only dream of. —Dr. Aircraft engine components must be lightweight yet strong enough to tolerate extreme conditions. Konrad Wissenbach, ILT.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces its mid-size pickup truck: the X-Class leans on diesel

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There are three design and equipment variants to choose from as well as four- or six-cylinder engines, rear-wheel drive and engageable or permanent all-wheel drive, a six-speed manual transmission and a seven-speed automatic transmission. All the all-wheel drive models come with Downhill Speed Regulation (DSR) on board as standard.

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Tata Motors shows CNG, diesel-electric hybrid and fuel cell concepts at Auto Expo 2012 in India, unveils 3 new production vehicles

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The vehicle is designed to deliver performance with less than 90 g CO 2 /km in city traffic conditions through technologies such as high speed cranking, regenerative braking, auto start/stop, series hybrid mode and limited range pure electric operation. Tata Indigo Manza Hybrid Concept. Powered by a Hybrid 1.05 Production vehicles.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires. ” [ 16 ]. European Union.

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