| New car sales motor 16 higher in October |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the number of new cars licensed for the first time rose by 16% in October compared to the same time last year. New car sales amounted to 2,832 last month compared to 2,442 the same time last year. The CSO figures show that a total of 69,402 new private cars were licensed in the year to the end of October, down 6.3% on the same time last ...
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| TVA settlement means Oxford saves on hybrid trucks |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
OXFORD, Miss. -- The city of Oxford's Electric Department is preparing to purchase three new hybrid trucks with help from the Tennessee Valley Authority.The Oxford Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/bxMH7X) that the city is benefiting from a 2011 lawsuit settlement between TVA and the Environmental Protection Agency. That settlement resolved Clean Air Act violations at 11 of TVA's coal-fired ...
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| Forget Cars. Detroit Has a Watch It Wants to Sell You |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
) Executive Chairman Bill Ford and Chris Ilitch, chief executive officer of Ilitch Holdings, the private company behind Little Caesar's, the Detroit Tigers, and the Detroit Red Wings. The scene was corporate-confab standard: wood-paneled boardroom, gray suits, untouched pitchers of water, and a steady stream of economic-development buzzwords that ranged from "skilled workers" to ...
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| Chinese Back to Buying Japanese Cars as Territorial Tensions Ease |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
) salesman Liu Hao had one of China's most hopeless jobs: persuading local consumers to purchase Japanese cars. After a territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea flared up in late summer of 2012, Chinese protesters took to the streets to denounce their Asian neighbor, overturning Japanese autos and attacking Japanese factories and restaurants. The unrest had a ...
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| Nissan chief warns Britain on EU exit |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
Asked how Nissan would react if Britain were to leave the EU, Ghosn said: "Obviously it's going to be a major factor happening and we are going to need to consider what does it mean for us for the ...
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| Mitsui Chemicals Augments Polypropylene Production to Address Growing Demands of Automotive Sector |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
Mitsui Chemicals (TOKYO:4183; President & CEO: Toshikazu Tanaka) and Prime Polymer, a Mitsui Chemicals subsidiary, announced a 21,000 ton augmentation of polypropylene production in the United States (Advanced Composites) and a 13,000 ton augmentation in Mexico (Advanced Composites Mexicana) to meet growing demands of the automotive materials ...
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| UPDATE 1-Tata Motors posts first profit gain in a year on Jaguar Land Rover sales |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
* July-September net profit 35.42 bln rupees vs 25.49 bln rupees analyst estimate * Revenue rises 31 pct to 568.82 bln rupees * Profit rests on buoyant sales at Jaguar Land Rover unit By Aradhana Aravindan Nov 8 (Reuters) - Tata Motors Ltd, India's biggest automaker by revenue, beat analyst estimates with its first quarterly profit gain in a year as buoyant sales at luxury unit Jaguar Land ...
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| Driverless robot pod cars to chauffeur customers on Milton Keynes roads - video |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
Driverless robot vehicles that let passengers play games and check emails while chauffeured to their destination are due to be introduced into Milton Keynes transport from 2015. The pods can carry two people at a time, traveling at a maximum speed of 12mph. By mid-2017 it is planned that 100 fully autonomous cars will be in operation, sharing pathways with pedestrians and equipped with sensors to ...
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| Cambodias Auto Market Volkswagen AGs Audi And Porsche Latest Luxury Automakers To Enter After BMW |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
German automaker Audiwill open its first showroom in Cambodia next year following Porsche, also under the Volkswagen AG (ETR:VOW3) banner, and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG(ETR:BMW)'s BMW,to break into the Southeast Asian nation's tiny but growing new car ...
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| PGE says electric cars have little impact on grid |
Nov 8th, 2013 |
VentureBeat reports PG&E conducts grid service checks when plug-in cars are purchased to make sure enough power is available. Concerns have mounted in recent years that the charging of electric cars could overwhelm power grids. Southern California Edison also found little impact on its grids, the report ...
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