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GM global sales up 7.6% in 2011 to 9.026M vehicles; China and US largest markets

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Sales were up in all four reporting regions—North America, South America, Europe and International Operations—as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010. International Operations. GM gained four-tenths of a point of market share to 11.9% of the global vehicle industry. compared with 2010.

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Hyundai Motor to establish Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore

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With Hyundai CRADLE’s presence in Singapore, the company will expand its global innovation network to Southeast Asia, with hubs already established in Korea, US, Israel, Germany and China. In Europe and Russia, where the service industry is mature, the company will focus on businesses that combine products and services.

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US Lifted The Crude Oil Export Ban, And Exports Went Down

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Europe and Asia are flooded with oil from Russia and the Middle East, though the first two shipments to leave the U.S. WTI is also expected to be exported to Israel , where Swiss commodities house Trafigura will ship some 700,000 barrels. Atlantic Trading & Marketing, the U.S. crude from Cushing. working storage capacity is filled.

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Pike Research ranks ChargePoint, DBT as top EV charging equipment supply companies

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ChargePoint and DBT USA will showcase a joint EV charging station innovation at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas). Pike’s top 11-20 countries are: Austria, Australia, Belgium, India, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and Switzerland.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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Chen founded the university’s first international visiting-scholars program in 1968. Participants have come from China, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Macedonia, Spain, and Russia. More than 50 of Chen’s students and colleagues endorsed him for the honor.

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Renault plan Fluence Z.E production

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The fossil fuelled version is expected to sell in Turkey, Romania and Russia, while the electric version however will make up part of mass market range of affordable zero-emission electric vehicles expected to start retailing across Europe starting in 2011.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. Ukraine denied the allegation.

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