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BMW-Sixt car-sharing JV DriveNow launches in London; 30 i3s coming in 2015

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DriveNow, the carsharing joint venture between the BMW Group and Sixt SE ( earlier post ), has launched its flexible carsharing service in London. DriveNow furthermore intends to add 30 all-electric BMW i3 cars to the London fleet in spring 2015, expanding it to a total of 300 vehicles during the course of next year.

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2024 MG Cyberster debuts within the U.Okay.

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The Cyberster, quite better than the BMW Z4 compact sports activities automotive, has scissor doorways, a Kamm-style rear finish and — for an MG — a swanky internal. Even supposing China’s SAIC Motor now owns the MG logo, the Cyberster used to be most commonly designed in England on the corporate’s London design studios.

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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Davis was an active member of an IEEE coordinating subcommittee that developed standards for testing wireless phones to ensure they comply with international standards designed to protect the public from harmful RF exposure. Davis was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and SPIE , the international society for optics and photonics.

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Fedex Express and Nissan expand cooperative testing of battery electric e-NV200 compact van; new panel version

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At the 64 th IAA Commercial Vehicle International Motor Show in Hanover, the company unveiled the new Panel Van version of the e-NV200 Concept, decorated with Nissan and FedEx graphics and logos. Nissan and FedEx Express engineers began in December 2011 co-testing the e-NV200 prototype on the streets of London, UK. Earlier post.)

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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The MINI E Fleet trials began in 2009 in the USA (New York, Los Angeles and in the state of New Jersey), UK (Oxford / London) and Germany (Munich and Berlin). In cooperation with the Federal Environment Ministry, BMW AG in China, together with the Society for International Cooperation (GIC) Ltd.

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Volkswagen’s MOIA introduces electric ridesharing car for up to 6 passengers; 300km range

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We started one year ago at TechCrunch in London with the vision of partnering with cities to improve the efficiency on their streets. In 2018, we’ll be ready to launch our ride pooling concept internationally and take the first steps toward our goal of reducing the number of cars in major cities by one million in Europe and the USA by 2025.

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Mercedes-Benz expanding SUV production capacities in US, bringing in AM General

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Mercedes-Benz is reorganizing its SUV production and will expand production capacities in the USA. Production capacities at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant (Mercedes-Benz US International – MBUSI), which will be gradually be released in this process, will then be used for the M-Class, the GL-Class and the new GLE Coupé due in summer.

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