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Nissan to make Leaf electric cars in Britain Tokyo (AFP) March 18, 2010 
Nissan Motor on Thursday said it would start building its zero-emission Leaf electric car at a plant in Britain from 2013, saving more than 2,000 jobs in one of England's most deprived regions.
The factory in Sunderland, northeast England, will also make the vehicle's lithium-ion batteries and will be the third earmarked to produce the clean cars after plants in Oppama, Japan and the US stat ... read moreLondon taxi parts to be made in China 
London (AFP) March 17, 2010The iconic black London taxi is to be partly made in China, manufacturers announced Tuesday, with production of the body panels and chassis shifting to Shanghai. Manganese Bronze, the leading manufacturer of the famous cabs, said the parts for its TX4 vehicles will be made in Shanghai, in a move costing 60 jobs at its plant in Coventry, west central England. The company already makes tax ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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The California Air Resources Board Approves EVI Zero Emission Vehicles
Stockton, CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved Electric Vehicles International's (EVI) fully electric return-to-base Medium and Heavy-Duty trucks. CARB approval recognizes that EVI's Freightliner Custom Chassis model EVI-WI and Daimler Freightliner M2 Model EVI-MD are clean, California-certified zero emission vehicles. These US Department of Transportation (DOT) approved, road-ready ve ... more Japan auto, power giants target global electric car standard 
Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2010Four Japanese auto giants and the country's largest power company joined forces Monday to set up a common system to recharge electric cars, with the aim of creating a global standard. The growth of the electric vehicle sector has been hampered by the chicken-or-egg question of what should come first: zero-emission cars or the networks of recharging stations to keep them on the road. Toyo ... more Seoul unveils electric vehicle 
Seoul (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 South Korea has unveiled what is considered the world's first commercial wireless electric vehicle. The online electric vehicle, created by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, can run up to 24.8 miles per hour. Power strips, buried 1 foot under the surface and connected to the national grid provide electromagnetic power to the OLEV, wirelessly, charging an on-board b ... more RWE and Renault team up for EV project
Essen, Germany (UPI) Mar 10, 2009 German utility RWE and French automaker Renault have teamed up to test electric mobility in Germany. The aim of the project, to be launched within weeks, is to test the performance of 150 electric vehicles in daily commuter traffic in the densely populated Ruhr area. The German government, which is eager to reduce the dependency on imported oil and cut carbon dioxide emissions fr ... more |
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Embattled Toyota chief says sorry to China
Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2010The president of Japanese auto giant Toyota, under fire after the company was forced to make massive global safety recalls, on Monday apologised to consumers in China, the world's biggest car market. Akio Toyoda bowed in apology before hundreds of journalists assembled at a Beijing hotel, just days after he said sorry to angry US lawmakers in Washington for faulty accelerator pedals blamed f ... more GM studying new offers for Hummer: source 
New York (AFP) Feb 26, 2010General Motors is studying new offers for its Hummer brand of sport utility vehicles, two days after announcing plans to end the brand, a source familiar with the talks said Friday. The source offered no details on number or identity of interested parties but said there had been "offers" for the brand of military-style vehicles. Nick Richard, a spokesman for the GM unit, declined to conf ... more China pollution concerns dash Hummer deal, analysts say
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 25, 2010China's environmental concerns have dashed Tengzhong's dream of buying the iconic Hummer brand from General Motors, but the once little-known firm has now made a name for itself, analysts said Thursday. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, based in southwest China, raised eyebrows when it announced in June last year that it would buy General Motors' world-famous brand of gas-guzzlin ... more GM unable to complete Hummer sale, to end brand 
Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2010General Motors said Wednesday it was unable to complete the sale of its Hummer brand to China-based Tengzhong and would wind down operations of the brand of military-style sport utility vehicles. "We are disappointed that the deal with Tengzhong could not be completed," said John Smith, GM vice president of corporate planning and alliances, without elaborating. "GM will now work closely ... more |
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