The US natural gas vehicle market needs federal and state tax incentives if it is to grow appreciably in the next 10 years, an analyst with Barclays said Friday. "If the state is willing to give you $20,000 for an NGV, the economics would ...
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US based automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) has obtained the approval of Chinese authorities to build a $1.3bn Cadillac plant in China. Expected to start construction in June 2013, the new facility will be located at the Jinqiao ...
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China based automobile manufacturer Jianghuai Automobile Company (JAC Motors) has signed electric vehicle (EV) supply agreement with US based GreenTech Automotive (GTA) in Shanghai. Under the deal, JAC will deliver 2000 units of third ...
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Truck Industry Council (TIC) statistics show that the truck market continues the recent trend of growth compared to the same period in the previous year. The March 2013 truck sales of 2,564 units were the best post-GFC for any March, with a ...
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Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda Motor’s Indian subsidiary Honda Cars India (HCIL) will invest about $460m (INR25bn) in its Tapukara vehicle manufacturing plant in Rajasthan, India. The investment will be used for the ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), in January this year the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market grew by 20.2 percent compared to the same month last year, with sales ...
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Ford Motor said recently that its hybrid vehicle sales in US will be more than 6,000 in January of 2013, up 5 times year on year. In January last year, Ford sold 1,209 hybrid vehicles in US, promoted by the good sales of the hybrid ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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The LDV V80 has been introduced to Australia as China’s biggest automotive company looks to take on the might of the Toyota HiAce and Hyundai iLoad in the commercial van market. A division of the Shanghai Automotive Industrial ...
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European Electric and Hybrid Vehicle market is expected to grow from 0.7% of the market in 2012 to 4% in 2020, according a new report from Pike Research. The market in the region will account a small portion of the entire market and by ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), in 2012 the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market shrank by 10 percent compared to 2011, with sales declining to 777,761 units. In ...
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The US new vehicle market rose to 14.5 million units in 2012 on the back of rising demand for mid-sized and small cars in a nation famous for its ‘bigger is better’ buying philosophy. The 2012 result – which saw ...
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Taiwan-based automaker China Motor Corp. (CMC), the local assembler of Mitsubishis and CMC branded cars, recently claimed to raise assembled-vehicle exports by about 54% in 2013. CMC is the long-term No. 2 carmaker in Taiwan with a ...
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BS reported that gold inched up on Monday as a drop in the US unemployment rate did little to dampen expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain easy monetary policy when it meets later this week. Investors are watching ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association, in the first 11 months of this year the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market shrank by 10.1% compared to the same period last year with ...
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