German carmaker Audi has reportedly cancelled its plans to manufacture the production version of its 2011 A2 electric car concept, which was unveiled in Frankfurt in September 2011. Based on the carmaker's A2 model, the new electric ...
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Microcar sale is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.1% to reach 1.75 million units in 2018 from 1.73 million in 2010, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. According to the report, Strategic Analysis of ...
December 28, 2012 - Quebec’s City of Rivière-Rouge, along with the founding partners of The Electric Circuit—Les Rotisseries St-Hubert, Rona, Metro, the Agence metropolitaine de transport (AMT) and Hydro-Quebec, has ...
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Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors is planning to launch the Outlander plug in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) in Japan on January 24, 2013. The PHEV will be powered by a 4B11 2.0L four-cylinder gasoline engine and twin permanent magnet ...
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As the year winds to a close,it is natural to look back and recall the high points.But,it is also useful to remember the lows,including those cars that disappointed.Here,we commemorate the worst models in our ratings. These are current ...
Tags: lowest-scoring vehicle, Jeep Wrangler, Scion iQ, Smart ForTwo
The executive shuffle Apple announced late Monday is the kind of drama that we in the tech press usually only get from watching Game of Thrones. But as interesting as it is from an inside-baseball perspective, it's worth remembering that ...
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"Ford was founded on the innovative spirit of Henry Ford, and the opportunity today to reinvent the driving experience excites us just as it probably would have him," said Paul Mascarenas, vice president and chief technical officer of Ford. ...
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German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is planning to unveil the new B-Class Electric Drive concept car at the upcoming 2012 Paris motor show in France. The new electric vehicle (EV) will be powered by an electric motor that will generate an ...
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The policies designed by the US federal government in a bid to promote electric vehicles (EV) will cost $7.5bn through 2019, according to a new report. The US Congressional Budget Office report revealed that have 'little to no impact' on ...
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Daimler’s microcar division Smart is planning to unveil the new electrically driven Forstars concept sports utility coupé (SUC) at the upcoming 2012 Paris Motor Show in France to be held during late September. The new two ...
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Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision will have agreed to develop new Smart City solutions with Smart Streetlight management. These solutions will use the 'internet of thing' approach to enable municipalities to monitor all objects ...
Tags: Lighting Management, Lighting, Lighting industry, street lighting
The future of outdoor lighting is constantly changing, LEDs, the reduction of electricity consumption, and even major feats like to removing oneself from the grid all together? The US Energy Information Association monitors energy usage in ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system), nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding R&D system at Texas ...
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Mobile startup Ting, which delivers its voice, text and data offerings over Sprint Nextel's network, has become the newest LTE service provider by shipping its first device that uses the fast 4G technology. Ting is now shipping Samsung ...
Tags: Mobile startup Ting, Nextel's network, LTE service, Samsung, Galaxy S III
Outlook.com, the new webmail service that Microsoft is previewing and that will replace Hotmail, has gained security boosts against phishing and spam. The new safety features come via support for the DMARC email authentication standard ...