German automaker Audi is set to invest EUR22bn to develop new models, innovations and for the expansion of the worldwide production network between 2014 and 2018. Almost 70% of the investment is intended for new models and technologies. ...
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In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able to track ...
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Details of the new additions to Volvo Australia’s showroom in 2014. Volvo S60, V60, XC60 (April) Volvo will introduce two all-new 2.0-litre four-cylinder engines to its S60, V60 and XC60 line-ups from April. Volvo Car Australia ...
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Details of the new additions to Skoda Australia’s showroom in 2014. Skoda Octavia RS (Q2) The Skoda Octavia RS will arrive in the second quarter of 2014. Skoda’s performance flagship is again available in ...
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Details of the new additions to Nissan Australia’s showroom in 2014. Nissan X-Trail (Q2) Highlighted by softer, more rounded exterior styling, a more premium cabin and the first-time inclusion of seating for seven, the all-new ...
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Tempo Industries announced the release of a new addition to the CLiP C71 high performance linear LED product family, the C7100/HU 'High Uniformity Series'. The new offering joins the original C7100, incorporating the 'form follows function' ...
Look around at the number industrial uses for U.S. soy. The engine manufacturers that support the use of biodiesel in their engines. Or the farm-equipment companies that use soy-based body panels. Or the car companies that use soy-based ...
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Chongqing Machinery & Electric Co., Ltd (CQME) is engaged to manufacturing and sales of parts of commercial vehicles, general machinery, and numerically-controlled machine took and power facility, covering sectors of machinery, automobile ...
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Natural gas trucks grow very fast in the past three years. Looking back the market, Chinese manufacturers differ from each other in performance. SHACMAN, however, has been leading the market forward through 7,000 units of sales in 2012 and ...
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Can one person accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles? Sure, if he's Elon Musk. But what about one more typical person, who doesn't run a car company? Sven Thesen thinks that answer is yes. He calls himself an EV evangelist and ...
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General Motors Co. announced plans to invest $1.3 billion in five factories so they can manufacture pickup trucks with more fuel-efficient engines and technologies. GM said the money will go to the Flint, Mich., assembly plant; an engine ...
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It is said Foton Daimler will launch a new Auman GTL tractor equipped with Cummins engine produced by Foton at the end of 2013. The engine is a produced in Beijing by the joint venture of Foton and Cummins. It weight around 803kg and has ...
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In theory, Maxwell's demon can decrease the entropy of a system by opening and closing a door at appropriate times to separate hot and cold gas molecules. But as physicist Leó Szilárd pointed out in 1929, entropy does not ...
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Details of the new additions to Mini Australia’s showroom in 2014. Mini Cooper three-door (March) The arrival of the all-new Cooper hatch in March marks the introduction of the third generation of new Minis, following the launch ...
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Navistar reports a fourth quarter 2013 net loss of $154 million, or $1.91 per diluted share. But still, that's good when compared to the fourth quarter 2012 when Navistar reported a net loss of $2.8 billion, or $40.13 per diluted share. ...
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