Tata Motors has launched Tiago, a hatchback for the Indian market after changing its original name Zica, as it was sounding similar to Zika virus. The Indian automaker changed the name of the car to Tiago through a contest conducted on ...
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Toyota announced that it has hired Jaybridge Robotics engineering team in order to strengthen its autonomous vehicle development effort. The 16 member Jaybridge engineering team will join Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) facility in ...
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced on Friday that passenger car sales totaled 2.2 million units in January, 9.3 percent more than a year earlier, and the production of new-energy vehicles surged by 144 percent. ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier says that its CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have been installed by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line, one of Japan's largest shipping companies) on its newest ...
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US based Hyper Industries has launched a tire traction system called Snowgripz to help drivers deal with tough road conditions during the winter. The system consists of reusable, proprietary plastic treads and hooks and loop fasteners. ...
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China supports new energy vehicles to save energy and combat pollution [Photo: blog.sina.com.cn] China's production of new energy vehicles surged by 600 percent year on year in November thanks to government support. Total production in ...
Ameresco, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, and the Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) announced today they are partnering on a comprehensive $14.8 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to improve ...
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US based internal combustion engine maker Achates Power has received $9m in funding from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop an opposed-piston, gasoline compression ignition ...
Sales growth in China's auto market will resume in 2016 after having stagnated since 2015, while automakers' margins will narrow due to fiercer competition, Fitch Ratings predicted Tuesday. Reduced purchase taxes and recovering consumer ...
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The release of a government report showing the cost of congestion in Australia will balloon by billions of dollars over the coming years serves as a timely reminder to governments to give equal consideration to the movement of freight as is ...
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After successfully debuting its Gentex rear vision system at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France, on Nissan's new GT-R LM NISMO race car, Michigan based auto technology maker Gentex is set to roll out the technology in 2016 Cadillac CT6 ...
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Nissan has introduced its next generation Leaf with improved battery capacity of 30 kWh, facilitating the car to have an EPA-estimated range of 107 miles on a single charge. The new mile range is 27% more than what the 2015 model ...
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April's Chinese light vehicle results echoed previous concerns as sales of locally made models grew by as little as 2 percent from a year earlier to 1.91 million units. Leaving aside any discrepancies that might have risen from the timing ...
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Indian automotive manufacturing company Tata Motors has launched the new GenX Nano range. The new GenX Nano range is available in XE, XM, XT with manual transmission, as well as XMA and XTA with easy shift automated manual transmission. ...
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China's passenger car sales grew nearly 8 percent in the first four months from a year ago, with deliveries of SUVs soaring almost 49 percent, according to latest data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers yesterday. From ...
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