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Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

Green Car Congress

The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016. Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety.

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BorgWarner delivers advanced technologies for new GM 8-speed transmission; stop-start

Green Car Congress

BorgWarner supplies Eco-Launch stop/start accumulator technology and multi-segment wet friction plates for the new 8-speed rear-wheel drive automatic transmission (8L45) from General Motors. Stop/start systems increase fuel economy by turning the engine off when the vehicle stops.

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Green light for alliance between Volkswagen Truck & Bus and Navistar; Volkswagen acquires 16.6% for $256M

Green Car Congress

The aim of closer cooperation in the supply chain is for both alliance partners to benefit from cost advantages and economies of scale. To this end, Volkswagen Truck & Bus and Navistar have founded joint venture Global Truck & Bus Procurement LLC which is headquartered in Lisle (Illinois) and will begin work immediately.

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Rivian wanted what Georgia had’: How the Peach State became Rivian’s $5B match

Teslarati

.” “We considered making it an OEM site,” Wilson, who has been the Commissioner of the State of Georgia’s Economic Development Department since November 2016, told Teslarati in an exclusive interview. It would not end up being a car company with a long-standing history of successful automotive manufacturing.

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Is the Future of Moore’s Law in a Particle Accelerator?

Cars That Think

When ASML introduced the first generation of these US $100-million-plus precision machines in 2016, the industry was desperate for them. Laser-Produced Plasma Today’s EUV systems are made by a single manufacturer, ASML, headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands. Moving to a much shorter, 13.5-nm

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

Baua Electric

Trump also froze fines for fleet fuel-economy violators , after his administration lost a court battle to roll the fine amounts back—another move that indirectly likely suppressed the EV market. There’s been no about-face to a clean-energy economy. jobs, with 931,000 more jobs for the broader economy. businesses. By 2027 U.S.