American electric drive system technology developer Balqon has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Polar Power to produce series plug in hybrid system for its line of heavy duty electric trucks and buses. As part of the agreement, ...
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American maker of lithium-ion battery for automotive industry AllCell Technologies has unveiled a new 48 volt micro-hybrid battery. The new battery will debut at The Battery Show this week in Novi, Michigan. This new battery is ...
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The Bike Cooperative has added eBike suppluer Currie Technologies to its roster of brand partners. Effective immediately, members of The Bike Cooperative will earn additional rebates on all purchases of Currie e-bikes, including eFlow, ...
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LeMond LLC has acquired Time U.S.A. and will become the exclusive U.S. distributor of the French brand of bikes, pedals and other products in the U.S. The company headed by Tour de France hero Greg LeMond, which recently announced that Time ...
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Folding bike brand Tern has secured $4.3 million in funding from private investors, which the company will use to accelerate global expansion and to ramp up its product development. The two-year-old company was launched with startup money ...
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Crosspoint Kinetics, a subsidiary of Cummins Crosspoint, has developed a second-generation parallel-electric hybrid system that can be used in package delivery applications. The Crosspoint Kinetics S3000 hybrid offers improved durability ...
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The DT12 automated manual transmission (AMT) is now available for the Freightliner Cascadia equipped with the Detroit DD13 engine, Detroit Diesel Corp. announced. The DT12 AMT merges the ease of an automatic with the efficiency of a ...
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American government organization Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $66m for 33 energy projects under two programs to provide sustainable technologies in the US. The first program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical ...
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Suzuki Indomobil Motor (SIM), an Indonesian subsidiary of Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor, has commenced the production of its 1000cm3 passenger car, Karimun Wagon R, from September 2013. The Karimun Wagon R is a passenger car with five ...
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Toyota Argentina (TASA), a vehicle production and sales subsidiary of Japanese automaker Toyota Motors (TMC), is set to invest $800m to increase the annual production capacity of its Zarate Plant from the current 92,000 units to 140,000 ...
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The second-generation Ford Edge SUV that's set to replace the locally built Territory from the end of 2016 has been photographed testing in prototype form. Ford insiders pointed CarAdvice to the Edge at the August unveiling of the Everest ...
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The US Department of Energy is trying to unload repayments of the loan it granted electric car maker Fisker Automotive?following the company's failure to repay federal loans of US$168 million ($178 million). Fisker won a US$528 million ...
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Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, is set to invest $108.7m to expand operations at its ice cream facility in Covington, West Tennessee, creating 428 new jobs over the next four years. The project involves ...
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It's both the moment of this comparison test and the first time the Jaguar F-Type mounts a fierce challenge to the Porsche Boxster. The $171,045 F-Type V6 S is leading, with the $131,800 Boxster S PDK on the chase. We're on a special ...
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The Transportation Maintenance and Technology Association (TMTA) recently teed off for City Kidz, a Christian organization that works to inspire low-income urban children. Steve Granville, Fred Pedler, Bob Dawson and Paul Crossman, from ...
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