WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House and Senate have bills that would raise federal truck weight limits for natural gas vehicles. Heavier fuel tanks and equipment on natural gas trucks can add as much as 2,000 pounds more than diesel ...
CHICAGO, IL—The number of trucks in use around the world will double between 2014 and 2035, according to Navigant Research, a provider of global clean technology analysis. Not only will there be more trucks on the road, but the ...
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Growing interest in utility vehicles among America’s 80 million-strong millennial generation – those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s – is bolstering purchase consideration for the Ford brand. Maritz ...
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Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are best positioned to address emerging power electronics performance needs in electric vehicles (EVs), with SiC displacing silicon as early ...
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Loughborough-based power technology company Intelligent Energy Holdings has signed a multi-million pound agreement with a Japanese volume automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to expand its reach further into Japan's fuel cell ...
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Tesla and Panasonic have signed an agreement to jointly build a large-scale battery manufacturing unit, called Gigafactory, in the US for Tesla's electric cars. Panasonic will be manufacturing cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in ...
Ford’s European sales rose 6.6 percent in the first half of 2014 on the strength of new vehicle launches and an uptick in industry-wide sales. Ford's sales volume in its 20 traditional markets in Europe totalled 605,400 vehicles in ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor in collaboration with the Portland General Electric (PGE) will start testing its prototype electric commercial vehicle - the Nissan e-NV200 in Portland. The companies will conduct a six-week trial to ...
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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) has sold 243,236 units, an increase of 12.6% for the month of May 2014 on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. The sales increased 17% from year-ago month based on a raw-volume basis, unadjusted for 27 selling days ...
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Ford has reported growth in its sales across Europe rose in April 2014, marking the 11th straight month of year-over-year sales improvement and fifth successive month of market share gains. Overall, Ford sold 99,700 vehicles in April in ...
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Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) has secured its largest ever order for the supply of electric vehicles to the Hangzhou region. Under the order, which is claimed to be one of the world's largest all-electric fleets contract, BYD ...
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In the first four months this year, sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Turkey decreased by 25.47 percent year on year to 168,577 units, according to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association ...
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Spot trade of 226, the main aluminum alloy grade, was slow this week, with consumers wary of higher prices, and partly because of the shorter working week. A number of producers have pushed offers of 226 ingot up to around Eur1,700/mt ...
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British automotive services firm RAC has introduced its first mobile electric charging system at GreenFleet Scotland for electric vehicles facing breakdown due to lack of power. The company has equipped a standard RAC diesel VW ...
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Recently, the Society of Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) announced in February the Indian commercial vehicle sales data. Data show that in February, the Indian commercial vehicle sales fell to 47,982, compared with the same period last year ...
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