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Exide and Leclanché launch Li-ion battery JV in India

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India is the fifth largest car market in the world with the potential to become one of the top three in the near future; there are a projected 400 million customers in need of mobility solutions by the year 2030. —Anil Srivastava, CEO of Leclanché.

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Study Finds Indian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas; Climate Change Partly Responsible

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Sea-level rise is particularly high along the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, as well as the islands of Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, the authors found. The rise—which may aggravate monsoon flooding in Bangladesh and India—could have future impacts on both regional and global climate. Credit: NASA.

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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Sheryl Connelly, Ford global trend and futuring manager, says there is no escaping the fact that disruption is now the status quo. Globally, consumers are finding more joy in less, and taking advantage of access-over-ownership service models. Sri Lanka, São Paulo and the US were devastated by floods this year.

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