American vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) has announced plans to invest $1.3bn in five manufacturing sites in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The five GM plants include Detroit, Flint and Romulus, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio and Bedford, ...
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Ford announced today that Auto Start-Stop will be available on 70 percent of its North American vehicle lineup by 2017. A major part of the company's Blueprint for Sustainability, the expansion of Auto Start-Stop comes as the ...
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TransX has taken delivery of the first of 150 new Peterbilt 579 tractors the company will be deploying. Company president Louie Tolaini accepted the keys from Peterbilt Canada's Matt Preston, at the Peterbilt Manitoba dealership. The ...
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XL Hybrids, Inc., developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet vehicles, today announced that it has raised $3 million in a pre-Series C debt financing round from WindSail ...
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Westport Innovations Inc, engineering the world's most advanced natural gas engines and vehicles, today unveiled its next generation of high pressure direct injection technology platform dubbed "Westport™ HPDI 2.0." This new ...
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When it comes to removing weight from a Class 8 truck, how do you determine the value of a single pound removed? That's one of the questions Volvo sought to answer when optimizing its regional haul tractors for lighter weight. To find an ...
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Volvo Trucks North America is constructing a road course and vocational track at its New River Valley Truck Plant, where customers can put new vehicles through their paces with or without a commercial driver's licence (CDL). Work on the ...
The “most track-capable Corvette ever” will be revealed next month when the all-new Chevrolet Corvette Z06 makes its world premiere at January’s Detroit auto show. Spied testing in heavy camouflage in September, the ...
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Global automotive supplier DENSO is set to merge its DENSO WAVE Incorporated and DENSO ELECS Co Ltd divisions in January 2015. The consolidated company will be called DENSO WAVE. This move by the company is to improve its ...
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Indian automaker Tata Motors announced that its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), is participating in the National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC) project in the UK. NAIC represents a total investment of ...
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When the current-generation Volkswagen Polo launched in Australia in mid 2010, it introduced levels of powertrain refinement, dynamic ability and interior sophistication never before seen in the city-car class. In the three and a half ...
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Chevrolet Thailand today launched the new 2014 Colorado midsize pickup truck that features a new, more potent powertrain, advanced infotainment system and other technical and aesthetical upgrades. "When the all-new Colorado was launched ...
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Chevrolet Sales Thailand’s (Chevrolet) booth at the 30th Thailand International Motor Expo will be showcasing products and technologies that underline the automaker’s constantly evolving products, passion and ingenuity. ...
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With specifications lists that punch well above their weight and each offering vast interior acreage, you'd think the mid-size segment had already shown us everything it could offer – but that was before the launch of the all-new ...
Skoda Australia has launched a capped-price servicing program with the introduction of the new Octavia. The details of Skoda's capped-price servicing campaign were officially embargoed until 12pm tomorrow but already appear live on Skoda ...