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Volkswagen Group to invest more than €9.8 billion in China by 2015; efficient products and production

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group is building seven new plants in China. Volkswagen had already reduced the fuel consumption of its fleet in China, currently including more than 70 models, by 20% between 2005 and 2010. The seven new plants will set new standards for sustainable automobile production. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.

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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

Most people are turning towards initiatives that build the environment rather than destroy it. With more users gearing towards purchasing electric vehicles, a surge in demand has drastically hit the electric automobile industry. It’s Getting Easier To Go Electric. The entire world is becoming environmentally conscious.

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Better Place, China Southern Grid sign strategic agreement on battery switching; Guangzhou accord to encourage production of EVs with switchable batteries

Green Car Congress

The Guangzhou accord calls for the municipal government to encourage local car manufacturers, such as Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, to produce electric cars with switchable batteries.

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Road Test: 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre EV

Clean Fleet Report

In the automobile industry some brands say covering the seats in leather makes an economy car luxury. I believe Rolls-Royce when they say it takes “ 90 pairs of hands and 600 hours ” to build each car, and that there is a one year waiting period due to the individual customization available to owners.

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

Green Car Congress

For example, the investor offering the lowest feed-in tariff would be awarded the contract to build a new wind farm. In addition, a fleet regulation for power plant fleets modeled after the automobile industry would be an effective way to limit the average CO 2 emissions of the power utilities and further reduce emissions.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Later, in graduate school at Virginia Tech, he became part of a group of engineers who visited local schools to help enhance the STEM curriculum with hands-on building of solar electric and small motor project activities. “We It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained.

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New York Turn On

Plug In Partners

Turn on the Electric Road By DAVID MORRIS Published: October 8, 2006 Minneapolis LAST summer, New York State took a page from California’s playbook, using state policy to jump-start a 21st century automobile industry.

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