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Honda returns to F1 racing as engine supplier
TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. will return to Formula One as an engine supplier to help develop vehicle technology after exiting the racing series in 2008. Honda will provide motors to its former F1 racing partner McLaren Automotive …
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BMW's Reithofer tells Germans to embrace EVs
… Bloomberg) -- BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer told his fellow Germans to set aside their worries and embrace electric- vehicle technology . "Germany is respected and admired the world over for its engineering expertise and powers of innovation, but …
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Cost to be big factor in 'talking' cars acceptance, LaHood says
… early 2012, the department found that nine out of 10 drivers had a "highly favorable" opinion of vehicle-to- vehicle technology . LaHood said he assumed there would be a third phase in the testing. LaHood's chosen successor is Anthony Foxx …
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Michigan couple appeal sentence in GM trade-secret case
… was included in GM licensing agreements with the former DaimlerChrysler and BMW. In 2004, GM licensed its hybrid vehicle technology to DaimlerChrysler for $55 million. A year later, GM licensed the technology to BMW for $21 million in a similar …
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Microsoft wants to become key player in auto software
… Motors, BMW, Audi and Volkswagen. Google, through its Android operating system, is hot to expand its role in vehicle technology . Google is now committing randd resources to driverless car technology. Apple, one of the fiercest competitors …
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Speed limit for new vans backed by EU Parliament committee
… Europe and Renault Group -- said the 147g/km goal was extremely ambitious and could only be achieved with hybrid vehicle technology . It called, in a statement, for "more effective" use of loopholes called supercredits, which allow manufacturers …
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Microsoft wants to become key player in auto software
… BMW, Audi and Volkswagen. Google Inc., through its Android operating system, is hot to expand its role in vehicle technology . Google is now committing randd resources to driverless car technology. And offstage, one of the fiercest competitors …
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U.S. judge sentences couple to jail for stealing GM trade secrets
… for a business venture to provide hybrid electric vehicle technology to Chery Automobile Co., a Chinese auto manufacturer ..... DaimlerChrysler and BMW. In 2004, GM licensed its hybrid vehicle technology to DaimlerChrysler for $55 million. A year later …
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U.S. judge sentences couple to jail for stealing GM trade secrets
… for a business venture to provide hybrid electric vehicle technology to Chery Automobile Co., a Chinese auto manufacturer ..... DaimlerChrysler and BMW. In 2004, GM licensed its hybrid vehicle technology to DaimlerChrysler for $55 million. A year later …
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Fisker, Energy Department blasted over loan to struggling firm
… company could avoid bankruptcy and build on its work. "We engineered and brought to market an exceptional new vehicle technology that won acclaim from customers and reviewers alike," Fisker said in his opening statement to the committee …
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As retirement approaches, Publisher Peter Brown honors some of the best, and worst, automotive adventurers
… I listed a half dozen female executives in the second tier. All of them have left the industry. Breakthrough vehicle technology Oddly, in 25 years there have been no massive breakthroughs (no Facebook, no Google) that rang the bell in the …
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GM to produce next-generation electric car in South Korea
… its South Korean unit told Reuters on Thursday, as the U.S. carmaker tries to revive momentum for the stalling vehicle technology . Sergio Rocha, CEO of GM Korea, gave no time frame for the launch of the new vehicles, but said they would be …
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Should EVs Speak Up? (3/19/13)
… of hybrids and you say louder or more unpleasant sounds could drivers. And even inhibit the adoption of electric vehicle technology . The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says by adding sound. There would be 2800. Fewer injuries …
unpleasant sounds could -- drivers. And even inhibit the adoption of electric vehicle technology . The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says by adding sound. There would be 2800. Fewer injuries to pedestrians and cyclists each model -
Louder EVs may turn off drivers, automakers say
… A plan to make electric cars louder in the name of safety could annoy drivers and inhibit adoption of electric vehicle technology , automakers say. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed rules for quiet cars in January …
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Henrik Fisker quits Fisker Automotive in dispute with management
… second vehicle, the Atlantic, after the U.S. Department of Energy froze most of a $529 million U.S. Advanced Vehicle Technology Loan when Fisker Automotive fell short of production goals. Henrik Fisker styled the company's first vehicle …
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Henrik Fisker resigns as executive chairman of Fisker Automotive
… second vehicle, the Atlantic, after the U.S. Department of Energy froze most of a $529 million U.S. Advanced Vehicle Technology Loan when Fisker Automotive fell short of production goals. Henrik Fisker styled the company's first vehicle …
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Nissan seeks fresh ideas on autonomous cars
… with experienced vehicle engineers. Instead, it will tap the nonautomotive world for new ideas and approaches to vehicle technology , says Carla Bailo, Nissan Americas' Detroit-based senior vice president for randd. "We don't want these …
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Tesla will accelerate repayment of U.S. loan, Musk says
… as well as electric-car startup Fisker Automotive Inc., were granted in 2009 under the $25 billion Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing program, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The program was designed to spur …
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Nissan seeks outsiders from Silicon Valley
… center in California's Silicon Valley. Nissan wants to tap the nonautomotive world for new ideas and approaches to vehicle technology . The center in Sunnyvale, Calif., which Nissan declared open today, will focus on advanced work on a future …
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Alt-fuel trust is new approach to energy randd
… security group's report, spending on advanced vehicle technology randd has totaled $2.4 billion since 2000, compared ..... predictable stream of resources going toward advanced vehicle technology -- one that is presumably less vulnerable to the …
