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Ford investing $72M to increase production capacity at Chennai Engine Plant

Green Car Congress

The new investment is part of Ford India’s transformation into a major global export and manufacturing hub; 1.6 It is also gearing up to produce powertrains for Ford’s all-new global Fiesta sedan, when it is launched in India later this year. TiVCT, 1.4 HC and Duratorq engines will be exported from the country.

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South Africans Want Electric Vehicles — It’s Time For More Automakers To Step Up

CleanTechnica EVs

South Africa doesn’t have the perfect environment to incentivize global automakers to rush to introduce more electric vehicles. Petrol and diesel vehicles imported from the EU into South Africa have a customs duty of 18%, while for electric vehicles it is 25%. It is […].

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Mahindra XUV 3XO SUV launched in South Africa with these changes

Baua Electric

By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 23 Sep 2024, 09:57 AM Mahindra has launched the XUV 3XO in South Africa at price starting from R254,999, roughly converted to ₹ 12.16 South Africa has become the first country outside of India to get the Mahindra XUV 3XO SUV. litre TGDi petrol engine or the 1.5-litre

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India bound 2025 Renault Duster RHD unveiled in South Africa. Check details

Baua Electric

By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 17 Nov 2024, 10:51 AM The 2025 Duster is based on the company’s CMF-B platform which underpins few of the global models as well. The company claims that the new platform ha … The 2025 Duster is based on the company’s CMF-B platform which underpins few of the global models as well.

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Study shows gasoline pre-blending in ethanol production could cut energy requirements of separation by 17-40%

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. The most prevalent use of bioethanol is not as a fuel in its pure form but rather as an additive to petrol.

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Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Green Car Congress

The car, intended to be a simple, practical global city car leveraging light-weight engineering, streamlining, and driveline efficiency, is scheduled to be unveiled in November 2015. Why a petrol car? The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Earlier post.)

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Volkswagen Amarok PHEV coming as soon as 2025

EV Central

If you can’t wait for the 2027 Volkswagen Amarok battery electric ute then maybe the petrol-electric version potentially due as soon as 2025 will do. The second-generation Amarok arrives in Australia from April with orthodox Ford turbo-diesel and turbo-petrol powertrains. For the petrol guys – for me – it’s enough.”.

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