The California-based assembler of the Chinese-made Coda electric car has filed bankruptcy. Coda Holdings, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the District of Delaware overnight, which is intended to ...
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European investment firm Investindustrial has completed the purchase of a stake in Aston Martin, resulting in a $277 million boost for the car maker towards the development of new products. Aston Martin confirmed the completion of the ...
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The Pneumatic valve was first introduced in the mid 1980's. These are the metals bellows filled with the compressed air and hence it is also known as air valves. The introduction of this technology brings a great change in the concept of ...
Hublot has created a limited edition watch as a tribute to the LaFerrari. The Swiss watchmaker says the Hublot MP-05 LaFerrari was developed alongside teams at Ferrari in parallel with the 708kW hybrid hypercar in terms of its ...
Preparing its customers to join the emerging‘Internet of things’, IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages Using the MQTT (the Message Queuing ...
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The stolen vehicle tracking system fitted to the Mercedes-Benz M-Class carjacked by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev helped police hunt down the alleged Boston Marathon bombers. Industry journal Automotive News reports authorities ...
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Volkswagen says it is “working hard” to improving the quality of its vehicles and customer service. The German brand has been languishing at the lower end of independent automotive quality surveys in recent years, and it has ...
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Among the newly released Teana models by Dongfeng Nissan, ultra high strength steel with more than 590 MPa car body application ratio reaches up to one third, with 980 MPa of maximum strength; While maintaining the most powerful engine in ...
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Subaru, the automobile manufacturing division of Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), is planning to recall 10,000 units of Forester wagons in the US and Canada, over improperly manufactured mats. The recall affects 2014 model year Foresters made ...
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Volvo says its extensive development and testing of kinetic flywheels has confirmed the technology is a lightweight, eco-friendly and financially viable solution for improving the performance of its future production vehicles. The Swedish ...
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The Toyota Me.We concept has been unveiled in Paris, revealing a minimalist compact vehicle capable of being a small city car, an off-roader, a ute and a convertible. Powered by four electric motors – one in each wheel, like the ...
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The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has said it welcomes the decision of the European Parliament's Environment Committee (ENVI) to support a life-cycle approach (LCA) in evaluating CO2 emissions from passenger cars. Members have ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars has completed test of a new kinetic flywheel technology also known as Flywheel KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) on public roads. Volvo claimed that the is light, financially viable and ...
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Semiconductor design for automotive systems is an important and growing technology capability for European companies, according to Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, European director at Mentor Graphics. "Europe's strong car industry is a big ...
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High Speed Linear Actuators preference comes into mind when there is a need of automation; a sports vehicle requires automation for smooth operation and features. Luxury is a part of a sports vehicle; everything in a sports car is based on ...