Future electric vehicles which are using traction motors will face a tough time ahead with the burgeoning cost of rare earth magnets, according to IDTechEx report. The report Electric Vehicles 2012-2022 revealed that about 128 million ...
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Sevcon and Flextronics Automotive have entered into an agreement to provide hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) drivetrain systems to automotive OEM customers in Germany and other central European countries. The deal will allow combination ...
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XL Hybrids has partnered with Henley Transmission Services, a franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service hybrid electric conversions. Under the deal, XL Hybrids, which is a ...
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WABCO has been awarded a multi-year contract by IVECO to supply anti-lock braking technology for its light- and medium-duty trucks to be manufactured in Brazil beginning from 2013. The contract award follows the Brazilian government's ...
A new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finds that vehicles equipped with a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) reduced the number of severely under-inflated tires on the road. The report compared ...
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GE Lighting introduced two new headlamp lighting solutions, including GE Nighthawk™ LED Sealed Beams and GE Nighthawk™ Xenon, within its Nighthawk™ automotive and trucking product family this week at the Automotive ...
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Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU), created the “Giving Veterans a Lift” program with two objectives in mind: to help veterans find employment and to assist its dealers in recruiting qualified service technicians. In an ...
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The KION Group has today acquired Voltas Limited’s 34% minority shareholding in Voltas Material Handling Pvt. Ltd. (VMH). VMH was founded jointly by the KION Group and Voltas Limited in May 2011. The KION Group has now become the sole ...
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Toyota Industries Corporation and Cascade Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which TICO will acquire 100 percent of the shares of Cascade for $65 per share in cash in a transaction valued at ...
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The City of Atlanta's Department of Watershed Management (DWM) has selected Networkfleet, a provider of wireless fleet management services, to increase the efficient use of DWM service vehicles. Under the deal, the Networkfleet GPS fleet ...
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Commercial vehicle demand dropped 9.4%during October 2012 across EU to 147,211 units compared to the corresponding month in 2011. During the month demand for commercial vehicle shrank by 3.8%in Germany,8.6%in the UK,9.8%in France,16.4%in ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen is planning to invest about EUR50.2bn in its global automotive division and development of new technologies through 2015 in a bid to meet the challenges of the uncertain European market. Volkswagen Board of ...
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Author(s): Miriam Berg In 2011, energy efficiency helped create jobs, cut costs and make the United States more energy independent. Read on for the biggest advances made last year in energy efficiency. Policy Many pieces of bipartisan ...
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US truck and bus manufacturer Navistar is planning to launch its new In-Cylinder Technology Plus (ICT+), which will comply with 2010 US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions regulations. The new engine technology combines the ...
CODA Holdings and Great Wall Motors have partnered to jointly develop, build and sell the electric vehicles (EVs) for the North American, Chinese and European auto markets. The new EVs, which will be a mix of CODA's battery technology and ...
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