PSA Peugeot Citron is preparing to boost its vehicles production by 10% at its European plants by the end of August. The move is part of the company's strategy to meet the increasing demand in the domestic markets. With the latest ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has opened its third Cromax Color Center in Chiang Rai together with Northern Car Paint Co., Ltd., its key distributor of Cromax in Chiang Rai province in the ...
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced the VERSABOND pretreatment system, a fast kinetic-efficient zinc-phosphate pretreatment formulation that improves the corrosion resistance of mixed-metal substrates while ...
Ford and DowAksa have partnered to explore developing automotive-grade carbon fiber composite parts, which could make vehicles lighter. The agreement will bring together DowAksa's feedstock capacity, carbon fiber conversion and downstream ...
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General Motors (GM) and SAIC Motor’s joint venture, Shanghai GM is planning to invest CNY100bn ($16bn) over the next five years, to develop new vehicles. The automaker intends to develop ten new or upgraded models each year until ...
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PSA Peugeot Citron (PSA) and General Motors (GM) will be manufacturing small light commercial vehicles (B-LCV) from their respective brands at the PSA plant in Vigo, Spain. The arrangement is a part of the existing alliance between the ...
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PSA Peugeot Citron and China-based Dongfeng have agreed to develop a technology platform for small cars. The companies will invest around €200m to create a global platform to manufacture B and C segment vehicles under the Peugeot, ...
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BMW breaks ground on vehicle distribution center in Galveston, Texas, US, to serve dealers within four states in the southern region. WWL Vehicle Services Americas will own and operate the facility under BMW Group on-site management. ...
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The country will move faster to develop its energy-saving and new-energy vehicle industry to ease pressure on resources and the environment. Subsidies for new-energy car buyers in 2014 and 2015 will be raised from previous levels set by a ...
China-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd and the Huangpi District People's Government in Wuhan City have entered into an investment cooperation agreement to construct a gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin-film solar cell R&D and manufacturing ...
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Axalta Coating Systems and the China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co Ltd. (CNHTC), a leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer, have partnered to demonstrate high performance trucks painted with Axalta’s Imron Elite environmentally ...
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The unsurprising debut of the Cadillac CT6 PHEV in Shanghai today has a powertrain that sounds an awful lot like the one that can be found in the Volt and the Cadillac ELR. The plug-in CT6 – identical to the CT6 that debuted in New ...
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BMW i3 electric vehicle has topped KBB's list of greenest production vehicles for two years running. That means that having the lowest purchase price wasn't that big of a factor in determining the winner. The i3’s story begins ...
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Commercial vehicle maker Allied Specialty Vehicles (ASV) has entered into a partnership with CleanFUEL USA, to expand its line of alternative fuel vehicles. Under the terms of the partnership, CleanFUEL will provide its products and ...
Ford Motor is reportedly looking to invest around $2.5bn at its plants in Chihuahua and Guanajuato in Mexico. As part of the plan, the company will spend $1.3bn at Chihuahua plant to build two new diesel engines, which will create ...
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