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Report: Toyota to make hybrid car parts in China to boost sales

Green Car Congress

The BBC reports that Toyota is planning to manufacture key components for its hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time. Some of the rare earth elements are key components hybrid car parts such as batteries.

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Bahrain’s Mumtalakat buys out McLaren, secures full ownership over supercar brand: Report | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund, Mumtalakat, has assumed full control of McLaren Group, manufacturer of high-end sportscars and majority owner of the McLaren F1 team, BBC reported. The company faced financial challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to production halts and job losses.

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

Green Car Congress

Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. The fuel supplies (green) are located at the inner inlet port. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Also reduces overheads for the company. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The company had hired 20 Innovas for media transport, two journalists per car. I don’t think the company is currently producing those numbers. The S1 is built on a steel frame, which has about 40 child parts.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval? but not all of it.

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