Experts believe that the review of the case involves a lethal blow to the Japanese automaker; Toyota has removed more than 8 million vehicles by problems in the accelerator.
Toyota Motor expects costs and lost sales resulting from its withdrawal for safety reasons in history to reach a total of 2,000 million for the year to [...]
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Mitsubishi revealed the production version of the new generation i-MiEV electric vehicle, described as the pioneer who opened the door for the next 100 years of automotive society.
This car represents the crystallization of nearly 40 years of development of electric vehicles at Mitsubishi Motors and is a solution to many challenges currently facing cars as [...]
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This prototype is a small preview of some of Mercedes’s future plans. It is a saloon with five seats, green technology and avant-garde design. The most important thing is that it offers 2 propulsion systems: a plug-in hybrid or other fuel cell.
The Mercedes F 800 Style, name that has been dubbed this concept car shows [...]
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Nissan has figured out a way to keep the batteries of its newly manufactured cars fresh until they reach the customer – solar energy. The manufacturer announced today it has signed a sales contract with solar product maker ICP Solar Technologies for an automotive solar charger.
Newly manufactured cars can sit in a parking lot for [...]
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Hybrid electric vehicles offer a solution to current problems related to environmental contamination and the limited autonomy of pure electric vehicles. In this context, researchers at the Institute of Automotive Research in collaboration with the Institute of Industrial Automation and Enterprise CEMUSA EPISOL involved in the project whose objective is the design and manufacture of [...]
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Peugeot will launch fourteen segments models of traditional and alternative energy until 2012, as part of an objective that seeks to win three seats on the classification of automobile brands, which would place him as the seventh world builder. To bring the general public this series of projects, the manufacturer has adopted the slogan Gallo: [...]
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This prototype of automobile with five doors, known like Real V2G (Vehicle To Grid Smart Peak Power Management System), has as an advantage that when using electricity as power plant it contributes to the protection of the environment and can cross 200 kilometres without needing loading the battery, said their constructors.
In addition, they emphasized, that [...]
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The Vatican joins the green revolution of alternative energy. So yesterday, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President and Governor of Vatican City announced yesterday that they plans to build a shielded solar energy “popemobile” for the transportation of Benedict XVI.
Today will be presented to the press an installation of solar panels made in the roof of [...]
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Future models of the German automotive BMW could be equipped with solar panels mounted on the roof in order to save fuel and cut pollution.
Solar energy would be used for charging the batteries to pre-heat liquids in the engine so that the cold does not affect the mechanical parts and are more efficient in fuel [...]
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MDI has developed a car with a cutting edge technology, a car that operates with compressed air. The man behind this idea is Guy Negre, a former Formula 1 engineer, who has the goal of putting into circulation 6000 of these cars this year.
To make the car work, Negre uses a piston engine to extract [...]
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