Startup company Elio Motors is closer to achieving its goal of selling an American-made, three-wheel vehicle by securing a former General Motors plant in Louisiana. The lease and financial assistance from the state moves the low-cost Elio ...
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PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has expanded the PPG Global Refinish System line with the addition of two new versatile, reduced-gloss clearcoats, D8115 Matte and D8117 Semi-Gloss. The new clearcoats make up the Matte ...
Lego Education unveiled the latest evolution of its Mindstorms range last night in London, in the form of a Linux-powered ARM 9 programmable brick which, for the first time in Lego Education's history, comes with the option of running any ...
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DuPont Performance Coatings(DPC)has launched the General Motors(GM)sponsored Parts Rebate Program for 2013.GM has partnered with DPC to offer the parts rebate to the DPC network of collision shops.The process is simple-when shops choose 100 ...
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Spartan Motors has sold the majority of its Wakarusa,Indiana plant to the Forest River,a recreational vehicle unit of Berkshire Hathaway,in order to move its operations to new plant in Bristol,Indiana in the US. The sale is a part of the ...
General Motors(GM)US has registered sales of 245,733 vehicles in December 2012,a 5%increase over to the same period in 2011. The company has seen an increase of 38%in its retail sales in December 2012 compared to November 2012 that added ...
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LEGO has revealed the latest iteration of its programmable robotic construction kit Mindstorms at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Mindstorms, first released in 1998, is designed to make robotics accessible for kids and adults. ...
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US automotive start-up Elio Motors will build its quirky, fuel-efficient, three-wheel car from 2014 in a plant that was once home to the hulking Hummer H3 SUV. RACER (Revitalising Auto Communities Environmental Response) – the trust ...
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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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South Korean company auto parts maker SL Tennessee has expanded its operations by leasing a fifth facility at the Clinton's Eagle Bend Industrial Park in Anderson County in the US. The company has leased a 65,000ft2 building owned by the ...
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US based automaker Chevrolet has unveiled the Sail Sedan that is scheduled go on sale in India later in 2013. The car is available with two engine variants, a 1.3L SDE Smartech commonrail four-cylinder diesel engine that is expected to ...
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US-based automobile manufacturer General Motors has recalled 68,000 vehicles, due to a problem in the park lock cable and malformed steering column lock. The recall is being carried out for 54,686 vehicles in the US, 6,310 in Canada, 710 ...
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Shanghai based SAIC Motor Corp China's largest publicly traded automaker reported it sold 4.49 million vehicles last year, a 12% increase from 2011. The figure includes 1.39 million units sold by Shanghai General Motors and 1.28 million ...
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Numbers of Germans out of work rose for the ninth month running in December but held close to a post-reunification low, adding to signs Europe's largest economy remains relatively unscathed by the region's crisis. Labour Office data ...
Mr Ümit Karaarsalan chairman of the Hyundai Assan said that South Korean Hyundai is set to produce 50,000 units of its new i10 and sedan models in addition to plans of building a research and development facility and launching motor ...
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