Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2009
Assuming the CAAM figures are borne out by official data, April would be the fifth straight month of growth for the industry. China unveiled a support package for the auto industry early this year, cutting purchase taxes for cars with small engine capacities and providing subsidies to rural purchasers.
Charged EVs
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Students of auto industry history will recall that Honda rebadged an Isuzu Trooper as the Acura SLX, while Honda in turn provided Isuzu with an early generation of the Odyssey minivan—which Isuzu relabeled an Oasis and sold for the 1996 through 1999 model years.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2011
The 2011 KPMG survey also finds the auto industry heavily investing in future technology, new products and safety improvements. The vehicle categories seeing the most significant response increases in the 2011 survey compared with 2010 were SUVs, luxury vehicles, large pick-up trucks, and cross-overs. Investments.
Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2009
He shared research that “ People assume a quieter minivan is a safer minivan. Miller believes the auto industry is falling into the trap of the computer software business by starting to promote the next generation of technology too early, thereby hurting the sales of the existing generation.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Chrysler LLC. $70.
China EV
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
auto industry about when, not if, Chinese automakers will enter the U.S. The Wuling I visited has many outer vestiges of its old state-owned days including disused railroad tracks running into the plant and piles of coal still left from when it was burned to heat and light the minivan plant.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 6, 2025
Its almost been a religion that its EVs or bust, so lets not fool around with hybrids or hydrogen, says Michael Dunne , CEO of Dunne Insights , a leading analyst of Chinas auto industry. In 2021, Toyotas decision to redesign its Sienna minivan exclusively as a hybrid seemed risky.
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