U.S. specialty jewelry store sales fell 5.4 percent year on year to $2.72 billion in February, according to government calculations. The sales decline was much more severe than preliminary totals for jewelry and watch sales across all ...
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California based driver risk management company Lytx has introduced its DC Protect in the UK which is a fleet management solution designed to meet the needs of mid sized fleet owners. DC Protect is an optimized solution that consists of ...
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Fujitsu has partnered with Global Mobility Service (GMS) to trial electric tricycles, a three-wheel taxi, in the Philippines. Fujitsu said that the collaboration with GMS will accelerate use of electric tricycles in the Philippines ...
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Ford Motor has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in its joint venture (JV) with Russian car company Sollers as well as provide additional funding to the Ford Sollers JV. The Ford Sollers JV produces and imports Ford products, ...
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Don't panic if you see a driver in a moving car with no hands on the wheel because chances are the vehicle is self-driving. Such scenes, previously only found in fiction, are likely to be reality very soon. In late March, Volvo ...
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Local governments are taking action to respond to the central government's appeal to popularize new energy vehicles across the nation. Earlier this month, Beijing authorities announced that pure electric vehicles would not be affected by ...
Trusted Computing (TCG) has unveiled solutions and a prototype designed to address security concerns in automobiles. The solutions are designed to address challenges associated with transmission of data between remote entities and ...
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Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected NXP Semiconductors to set up a S$22m ($16.2m) smart mobility test bed at the campus, to accelerate introducing life-saving vehicle communications. The move will support ...
Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to spend over €500m at its plant in Termoli, Italy, to produce two new engines for its planned Alfa Romeo cars. The first variant is an advanced 4-cylinder engine, while the other is a Ferrari-derived ...
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General Motors (GM) is looking to boost production of sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) with a $1.3bn expansion at its Arlington assembly plant in Texas, US. The company intends to add 1.2 million ft2 of space to the existing facility over ...
Mercedes-Benz has started production of GLE Coupé at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US. The GLE Coupé is a new series of Mercedes-Benz that incorporates characteristics of a coupé with SUV. The company said it ...
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A two-day national workshop on the textile parks sanctioned under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) is being organised by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, in Surat on 9-10 April, 2015. The workshop, ...
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Electric vehicles have been developing rapidly from the original hybrids, to parallel/serial and plug-in hybrids through the optimization of power drive designs. Since then, the industry has been able to develop all-electric models as the ...
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Axalta Coating Systems launches Imron Hydro and Imron Elite in China. The two products are part of the Imron family of coatings that are designed to help commercial vehicle manufacturers and operators meet productivity goals and ...