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China-based automobile manufacturer Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group), the parent company of GAC Motor, has begun construction of a large industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles as part of its efforts to boost its electric vehicle business. More than 45 billion yuan (US$6.5 billion yuan (US$679 million).

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Steel can easily deliver the weight savings required to meet federally mandated fuel economy targets for most vehicles, according to a new 300-page analysis by the steel-industry information service World Steel Dynamics : “AutoBody Warfare: Aluminum Attack.” From 2018 to 2021: 11.4%, or 166 pounds. —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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JULY 22, 2019

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) has become the first automobile manufacturer to enable full 5G wireless coverage at all its plants. This means that networked machines and systems can exchange data in real time, for instance, and align themselves even better with the production process. Full 5G coverage, transfer rate of 1 Gbps.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Yamaha Motor has begun accepting orders for a high-performance electric motor prototype that is capable of delivering industry-leading high power density for automobiles and other types of vehicles. 35kW prototype unit under development. Sample dual-motor package.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Total GHG emissions decreased from 2018 to 2019 by 1.7% (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector). from 2018 to 2019, and CO 2 emissions just from fossil fuel combustion decreased 2.7% from 2018 to 2019. CO 2 emissions decreased 2.2% Total GHG emissions in 2019 were up 1.8% over the same period.

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ARC, which in January 2018 put in tools to hit upon over the top weld slag and alternative particles within the welding procedure, stated it believes the ruptures resulted from “one-off manufacturing anomalies” that had been addressed through automakers in next recollects.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

liter V8 engine for automobiles that is fueled entirely by hydrogen. Yamaha began developing a hydrogen engine for automobiles about five years ago. Once finished, the facility will play a leading role in implementing green technology measures for Yamaha products across the board. —Yamaha Motor president Yoshihiro Hidaka.

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With the large-scale popularization of new energy vehicles and strong policy support, the scale of China’s charging pile industry has grown rapidly. million in 2025, and traditional fuel vehicle companies will accelerate the deployment of new energy products. As of 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in China will reach 7.84

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JUNE 20, 2023

MICHAEL BARRETT DRIVEN TO INCREASE PROFITS IN ALL ASPECTS OF RETAIL Genesis Motors Canada depends upon greater than untouched automobiles for earnings. That comes with old automobiles, finance-office merchandise and making plans for carrier profitability as extra of the fairly untouched model’s automobiles come off guaranty.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Honda launched global production of a new, state-of-the-art 10-speed automatic transmission at Honda Precision Parts of Georgia, LLC (HPPG) in Tallapoosa, Georgia. It will appear first in upper grades of the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey minivan, launching this spring, and will be applied to additional light-truck and car models in the future.

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JULY 19, 2018

Volkswagen’s main plant in Wolfsburg has won the Automotive Lean Production Award for the first time. Series production at Wolfsburg began in 1945; since then, more than 45 million vehicles have rolled off its lines. Wolfsburg must be a model plant in our brand’s worldwide production system.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Buick’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology made its debut at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition. Later this year, Buick will become the first brand in China officially to roll out the market-ready technology on a production vehicle, a Buick GL8. Past work on V2X in China.

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MARCH 10, 2019

million in federal funding for four public/private projects aimed at solving key manufacturing challenges in steelmaking and aluminum production through supercomputing. Primary metals industries are significant energy users, so opportunities to reduce energy consumption in this area is of great interest to our sponsors.

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. By 2018, the workforce is to increase from 75,000 to 100,000 people. Annual production capacity is set to grow from the present figure of 2.6

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

BMW’s press shop in Dingolfing—the largest of the BMW Group worldwide—is the first in which all aluminum sheet waste is separated and recycled to make it reusable for industry. The Dingolfing plant is one of the BMW Group’s 31 production sites worldwide. In 2018, the plant manufactured a total of almost 330,000 vehicles.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

As per the data released by apex industry body SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) today, all the four vehicle segments have witnessed good growth with passenger vehicles up 8% to a record 41,01,600 or 4.10 Combined sales of passenger vehicles, two- and three-wheelers and commercial vehicles at 2,28,36,604 or 22.83

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The investment also marks a strengthening and deepening of the existing industrial and commercial partnership between PSA and DFG, China’s second largest carmaker. DFG’s investment through the two successive capital increases, for a total amount of €800 million, would accompany the deepening of this historic industrial partnership.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In March 2018, Freudenberg announced it had acquired a 31% ownership stake in XALT Energy through a multi-million dollar investment in its operations. In 2018, Freudenberg agreed to work with a leading provider of electrical power distribution and automation for the marine industry to explore battery solutions for its applications.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

As per the data released by apex industry body SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) today, all the four vehicle segments have witnessed good growth with passenger vehicles up 8% to a record 41,01,600 or 4.10 Combined sales of passenger vehicles, two- and three-wheelers and commercial vehicles at 2,28,36,604 or 22.83

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Ube Industries, Ltd. will expand its production capacity for its U-Pore polyolefin multiparous film for lithium-ion battery separators at the Sakai Factory in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, in order to meet growing demand for lithium-ion batteries used in automobiles. In 2011, Ube Industries and Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Borgward Group AG, the reincarnation of the German automaker that ceased operations in 1961 ( earlier post ), will be returning to Bremen and building a production facility there. Production will be launched at the plant a year later, in 2018. Construction of the new manufacturing facility is scheduled to begin in early 2017.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Smart architecture, streamlined optics design, and integrated optical paths result in rapid manufacturing, scalability into automotive production, and lower cost. Applications include vehicle safety systems, autonomous vehicle systems and V2X (vehicle-to-everything) for automobiles, trucks, buses, trains and off-road vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The Nikkei reports that the second Hydrogen Energy Ministerial Meeting—a policy platform for global utilization of hydrogen—scheduled to open in Japan on Wednesday will call for 10 million fuel cell vehicles—including trains, planes and automobiles—in 10 years.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Audi and Ericsson plan to pioneer the use of 5G technology for automotive production. At Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, the two companies agreed on a range of activities exploring the potential of 5G as a future-proof communication technology that can meet the high demands of automotive production.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The new policy from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requires that sales of NEVs reach a threshold equivalent to 10% of an automaker’s total sales in 2019 and 12% in 2020. The measures will be effective from 1 April 2018. China lags behind Western countries in the fossil car era.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Spain-based SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Volkswagen Group China and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Under the agreement, all parties will leverage their technology and product strengths to develop a battery electric vehicle platform for production at JAC Volkswagen.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Mazda continues to be involved in joint research projects and studies as part of an ongoing industry-academia-government collaboration to promote the wide-spread adoption of biofuels from microalgae growth. Improving productivity and reducing costs are fundamental to the widespread future availability of algae biofuels. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 9, 2018

Impact Coatings, which develops and sells technology for PVD-coatings of fuel cell plates and vehicle reflectors, recently received its first production order for Ceramic MaxPhase coatings from Michelin. Michelin subsidiary IMECA is working with Symbio FCell on the industrialization of this technology.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Toray Industries will open Automotive Center Europe (AMCEU) in August 2018 near Munich, Germany, as part of strengthening of R&D function related to the Green Innovation (GR) Business in Europe.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Under the terms of the agreement, Anjie Wireless will license WiTricity’s patented magnetic resonance technology and industry-leading designs to develop and commercialize highly efficient wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging systems for sale to leading carmaker brands in the China market.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

AUDI AG is the first automobile maker to be awarded the Chain of Custody certificate of the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI). Since 2013 Audi has taken part in the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative, which now has 143 members in the aluminum industry.

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JULY 6, 2021

Bugatti is contributing a tradition-rich brand, iconic products, a loyal customer base and a global dealer organisation to the joint venture. Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. We already purchased the first shares in Rimac in 2018 and have successively increased our shareholding since then. —Oliver Blum.

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JUNE 6, 2018

NEVS (formerly Saab Automobile) and Phantom Auto, the leading provider of teleoperation safety technology for autonomous vehicles (AVs), are collaborating to ensure the optimally safe and efficient deployment of NEVS’ electric AVs throughout the world.

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JULY 6, 2016

This plant, located in San Luis Potosí, will allow Constellium to respond to increasing demand for lightweight, high-strength aluminium Crash Management Systems and automotive structures for the expanding auto industry in Mexico. The facility is expected to start production in 2018. Constellium generated €5.2

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The company was one of the first nine battery suppliers to fulfill China domestic industrial standards and its government’s requirement for EV subsidies. The remaining 150,000 9-3 EV are scheduled to begin rolling out from NEVS JV plant in Tianjin in 2018. Earlier post.) Established in 2011, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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APRIL 24, 2016

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. Click to enlarge. New turbo engine.

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JULY 7, 2017

One of the aims of the research collaboration is to develop robot-based innovations for all-electric and autonomous automobiles. The driver simply has to position the electrically powered automobile in a designated parking space. By the end of 2018, more than ten new electrified models will be launched on the market.

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