Santa Rosa-based EV maker ZAP has signed a deal with Shanghai officials to provide charging stations, battery swap facilities and maintenance depots for the city's commercial Yangpu district.
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As governments wake up to the need of establishing an infrastructure of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs), commercial players are offering anything from the expertise to set up the network down to the individual chargers.
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Chinese car exports increased by 73.47% in October 2010 over October 2009's sales figures according to statistics released by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).
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EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I used to love the CRX, and after that I thought the Insight was cool--the two-seat one, not the five-door out now.
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TRW Automotive Holdings said it had won its first contract to supply an integrated driver assist system (DAS) and chassis control unit "for a major European car manufacturer". It would begin to supply the control units, known as the safety domain ECU or SDE, in 2013 for 2014 model year applications.
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Renault aims to reach an early-retirement deal with unions at the beginning of 2011 to reduce its French work force.
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VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn said he expects the automaker to sell more than 7 million vehicles for the first time this year.
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VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn said he expects the automaker to sell more than 7 million vehicles for the first time this year.
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Renault-Nissan is focused on making investments in emerging markets, particularly in Russia and China, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
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BMW has launched an automotive finance company after receiving regulatory approval for the venture.
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Chongqing Changan Automobile plans to spend CNY4.3bn (US$648m) on a production base in Beijing.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a fuel economy label for the all electric Nissan Leaf, rating the vehicle to be "best" in the midsize vehicle class for fuel efficiency and "best" for the environment.
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Johnson Controls has won European Union regulatory approval to acquire Michel Thierry, a French vehicle interior fabric supplier.
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BMW says its UK sales target for its redesigned X3 SUV will be around 5,000 vehicles as it looks to build on the success of the previous version.
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Porsche is investing about 150 million euros ($203 million) in a high-tech wind tunnel, a design center, electronics integration center and other upgrades to its research and development facility in Weissach, Germany, the company said.
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Hyundai Motor shares tumbled to a three-week low on Tuesday over investor worries that a prolonged labour dispute may cause major output disruption at South Korea's largest automaker.
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Renault's chief operating officer Patrick Pelata talks exclusively to just-auto about the company's alliance with Daimler, the market in Europe and the rest of the world as well as the company's future in Formula One.
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Ssangyong Motor Company (SYMC) and India's Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), its preferred bidder, on Tuesday announced the signing of a definitive agreement in Seoul.
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Mahindra, India's largest SUV maker, will pay 427.1 billion won ($378 million) for a controlling stake in South Korea's Ssangyong, the companies said Tuesday.
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