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http://kn.theiet.org/news/jun09/gm-intervention.cfm?origin=homepage-news
Two months ago President Obama, along with other Group of 20 nations' leaders, pledged not to introduce protectionist measures in the global economic crisis.
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Now some are wondering whether the Obama administration's decision to rebuild General Motors Corp by taking majority government ownership, and getting the global company to make more cars in the United States, breaks the spirit, if not the letter, of that pledge. GM is selling its European operation, including the Opel and Vauxhall brands. "We (the United States) are looked to as the leader of free markets," said Claude Barfield, a resident scholar and trade expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He worries some of the signals sent this week in the US help for General Motors "will come back to haunt us in terms of the competitiveness of US corporations, and in terms of furthering US public policy goals." But other analysts say it will be hard for some countries in Europe and Asia to challenge US subsidies for f
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Toyota on Thursday announced a better than expected fiscal third quarter operating profit on improved revenues but an expected $2bn hit for recall costs
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is expected to keep it in the red for the full year. Consolidated net revenues rose 10.2% to JPY5.3 trillion yen and operating income rose from a loss of JPY360.6bn to JPY189.1bn and net income increased from a JPY164.7bn yen to JPY153.2bn of profit. With less than two months left in the current financial year, Toyota slashed what most analysts had considered an excessively conservative operating loss forecast to JPY20bn yen (US$220m) from JPY350bn. A Toyota official told Reuters the new forecasts for the current year took into account up to $2bn lost from the recall - an estimated JPY100bn in costs and a further JPY70-80bn in lost sales, in line with analysts' estimates. Toyota's new forecast for the year to March compares with a JPY38bn yen annual loss forecast in a survey of 19 brokerages by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Senior managing
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/sep08/mg-longbridge.cfm
MG cars are rolling off the historic Longbridge factory production line in Birmingham, UK, for the first time since MG Rover went bust three years ago.
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The plant's Chinese owner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) is selling the new MG TFmodel in Britain later this month. SAIC hopes to produce several hundred MG TFs this year, and one source said that Longbridge is earmarked to become the company's UK technical centre and to produce a second new model at the plant. Ian Pogson, the principal quality engineer for the company in the UK, said the next vehicle could be an MG version of SAIC's recent Roewe saloon car made in China. SAIC, one of China's biggest car makers, acquired the Longbridge plant only last year when it took over a Chinese rival, Nanjing Automobile. Nanjing had bought some of MG Rover's assets after its collapse in 2005.
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/sep08/ford-transit.cfm
Future investment at American motor giant Ford's UK van factory remained in doubt as talks between management and unions continued this week. Ford wants
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to review production of the Transit van made at the plant in Southampton, in particular the assembly of the next generation of the vehicle. The national officer for the Unite union, Dave Osborne, said: "We expect Ford to honour its 2001 sourcing and investment agreement which makes clear commitments to vehicle manufacture in the UK. "Our members have made major contributions to the performance of Ford in Europe. Ford workers in the UK have continued to deliver major improvements in efficiencies and cost reductions. "Europe has been Ford's saving grace and the UK is Ford's biggest European market." Ford confirmed that talks about future production of the Transit were continuing. Last month Ford cut 124 short-term contracts at the plant, which employs about 1,200 staff. But it suggested that there "were no plans to cut the levels of perm
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/jan09/quality-jobs.cfm
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) today launched its blueprint for tackling rising unemployment with a plan to create 400,000 new jobs. Ahead of
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the government’s New Year Jobs Summit, the FSB has outlined five ways to create and retain jobs in a rapidly shrinking job market, identifying unemployment as the big challenge of the coming year. The FSB’s Five Point Plan identifies as the key to unlocking the challenge of unemployment: promoting part-time working investing in apprenticeships simplifying legislation giving small businesses more opportunities to bid for public contracts cutting payroll taxes, as the key to unlocking the challenge of unemployment. The FSB blueprint provides a framework for creating sustainable quality jobs in the small- and medium-sized business sector, which employs more than half of the private sector workforce. By decreasing the burden of regulation on business, the government could increase the number of jobs by 160,000 and save 73,000 jobs by preven
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/feb09/dyscas.cfm
Developed over two and a half years by a consortium of research institutes, software companies, vehicle manufacturers and parts suppliers, the architecture
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represents a building block for an intelligent car able to reconfigure and update itself autonomously, as well as communicate with other devices, such as the driver’s mobile phone or PDA. “The architecture is the basis for a kind of adaptable onboard operating system… but one that’s much more robust than what is on your PC,” claimed Martin Sanfridson, a researcher at Volvo Technology in Sweden and the co-ordinator of the EU-funded DySCAS project in which the architecture was developed. The DySCAS architecture allows systems, such as onboard navigation, to automatically access addresses on the driver’s PDA to save them from having to be input manually. It would also make installing new features and components or changing existing ones considerably easier. “Cars take many years to develop and most are designed to be on the road for pe
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http://www.just-auto.com/article.aspx?id=101484&lk=dm
RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of advanced battery technologies 7 October 2009 | Source: just-auto.com editorial team For some time, manufacturers have been
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pushing back the technical boundaries of batteries used for hybrid electric vehicles. Matthew Beecham asks executives of three leading advanced battery makers -- Western Lithium Corp, EaglePicher Technologies and SB LiMotive -- for their opinions on how this blossoming market is shaping-up in a global recession. Not so long ago, the automotive industry was protecting an old technology yet nowadays it appears to have embraced the need for hybrids and the use of advanced battery technology. Macroeconomic, political and environmental events such oil dependency, new competition and increasing carbon emissions have all contributed towards the new move to electrification of transportation. "New technology in the form of lithium-ion batteries has facilitated the change away from old business models that are not sustainable in the future," said
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/sep09/plug-in-vehicle-plan.cfm
The scheme is designed to make it easier for drivers to charge plug-in vehicles in a number of major UK cities. The ETI is initially working with Birmingham,
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Coventry, Glasgow, London, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Oxford and Sunderland. The plan has been created to help support the roll-out of a single national network that will ultimately enable plug-in vehicles to be easily used and recharged anywhere, including the home. Known as the Joined-Cities Plan, the scheme is part of ETI's overall plug-in vehicle project announced in July. Announcing the plans at the Low Carbon Vehicle Event 2009, held at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, ETI chief executive David Clarke said: "We are supporting a UK collaboration to evaluate and accelerate the market for plug-in vehicles. "Enabling plug-in vehicles to compete effectively in a market alongside petrol and diesel vehicles with their extensive infrastructure is a challenge. These plug-in vehicles are currently unknown to mos
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http://kn.theiet.org/news/oct09/biotruck.cfm
Adventurer Andy Pag reached Asia last night, after leaving London in a recycled scrap yard bus powered only by chip fat. The veteran overland traveller
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is attempting to travel around the world using only rubbish to fuel his journey. On Friday he crossed from the European side of the Istanbul Straits to the Asian side. “Crossing the Bosphorus is a real milestone. I’m actually quite relieved to have made it this far, but it’s only going to get tougher to find used cooking oil to fuel the bus from here on.” said Pag last night. The journey has already had its challenges, and the bus is using more fuel than expected. “It’s a bad example of a type of bus that was never particularly efficient when new.” explained Pag, “It’s noisy, uncomfortable, slow, and it smells like a bus drivers armpit, but when you are using rubbish you can’t expect too much.” Since leaving London on the 19 th of September, the bus has covered 5000km through France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, the Balkans and Greece t
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