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Articlepuls: suppliers bet less on electric vehicle technology
Germany's SGL specializes in carbon-fiber technology for the auto industry (Photo: SGL)German automotive suppliers are using the growing demand for renewable energy solutions as a means to reduce their dependence on the car industry.That is one of the conclusions from research conducted by Germany's puls market researchers.According to the ...
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ArticleUtopia establishes European operations
Utopia aims to strengthen its European operations under a new top manager in London.The US SAP partner and strategy consultant said Mark Whitehouse will head its European business operations. From London, the company will serve data management clients throughout the continent.Utopia specializes in enterprise data lifecycle management (EDLM) solutions and ...
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ArticleMetric Parking lands big US parking meter order
Metric’s parking solutions can help increase the number of parking spaces while boosting city revenue (Photo: Metric)Metric Parking, expanding its footprint in the US market, will supply 135 car parking ticket machines to the city of Hoboken, New Jersey.The subsidiary of Germany's Hoeft & Wessel Group, a ticketing, parking and ...
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ArticleOpel car configurator offers 360 degree view
Opel has introduced a new car configurator that offers 360 degree high-definition views of a model's interior and exterior.The software, made by MRM Worldwide, is called the Micromachine Generator Next Generation. It allows a user to view a car in full-screen mode from all sides. The result can be turned ...
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ArticleFord offers solar roof for US Focus Electric
Ford is teaming up with SunPower to provide solar roofs for the Focus Electric (Photo: Ford)Ford Focus Electric buyers in the US will have the option to equip their car with a rooftop solar system that can feed electricity back to the grid and cover battery recharging costs.The carmaker is ...
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ArticleBosch poised to take over Taiwan's Unipoint
Unipoint makes starters such as this one as well as other aftermarket parts (Photo: Unipoint)Robert Bosch said it is poised to take over the Unipoint group and affiliated companies in a move aimed at strengthening the global aftermarket business of the world's biggest automotive supplier.Unipoint, with 124 million dlrs in ...
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ArticleAudi to show carbon-fiber electric city car at Frankfurt auto show
Audi’s urban concept will have a carbon-fiber shell (Photo: Audi)Joining the race to lead a new generation of city cars, Audi will show a 1+1 seat electrically propelled urban vehicle at next month's Frankfurt auto show (IAA).The German premium carmaker said in a press release that the concept car, which ...
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ArticleIn telematics consolidation, Trimble buys Peoplenet, Masternaut and Cybit merge
US based GPS technology specialist Trimble, continuing a string of recent acquisitions, has bought Peoplenet, a provider of fleet management systems.Telematics providers are joining forces in a global market consolidation (Photo: Trimble)Trimble, which makes positioning systems for fleets, last year bought Punch Telematix, a Belgian transportation solutions provider, and Tata ...
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ArticleA virtual car manual does away with hefty tomes of yesterday
An Avatar provides driver assistance in an Audi test vehicle (Photo: Technical University Munich)An Avatar-based virtual co-driver system (AviCoS) will do away with the multi-page driver manuals that traditionally hog the glove compartments of most cars.That's the vision of the Information Systems department of Munich's Technical University. The department has ...
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ArticlePTC's MKS Integrity gets key approval from Germany's TUEV
PTC acquired MKS, the maker of MKS Integrity, in May (Photo: MKS)TUEV SUED has given its stamp of approval to PTC's MKS Integrity software.The certification by the German technical standards company means PTC's lifecycle management solution will make it easier for car manufacturers to comply with a key automotive industry ...
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ArticleGreenTech, Shengyang ZhongRui to build green cars in China
GTA’s Charles Wang (left) and Terry McAuliffe, jointly participated in the ground breaking ceremony of their new Chinese joint-venture plant (Photo: GTA)Virginia-Based GreenTech Automotive (GTA) said it will build and sell a new range of fuel-efficient cars in China.The US automotive startup, which will start building its first vehicle later ...
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ArticleToyota, Tesla to build joint Rav4 EV in Canada
Toyota showed an electric version of the RAV4 in February (Photo: Toyota)Toyota and Tesla Motors will built a jointly developed electric version of the RAV 4 small SUV at the Japanese carmaker's plant in Woodstock, Ontario."The Tesla-Toyota joint development team has agreed that building the vehicle at the Woodstock plant ...
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ArticleGartner: Germans not keen on EVs - yet
Toyota is one of many automakers planning an EV next year (Source: Toyota)Germans aren't ready to buy battery-powered electric vehicles yet, according to a recent Gartner study.The market researchers said a study conducted in Europe's biggest car market in the first half of 2011 showed that a majority of consumers ...
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ArticleMicrosoft cites surge in Cloud solutions
Microsoft announced new software features at its 2011 partner conference in Los Angeles (Photo: Microsoft)Microsoft said partner offerings of its Cloud-based computing solutions have more than doubled in the past year.The US software group said 41,000 partners are offering its Cloud solutions, employing 300,000 specialists.At its global partner conference in ...
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Article6 Winners in US connected vehicle competition
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced six winners in a national competition for the best ideas for using wireless technology in car-to-car communication."The winners of this competition have given us ideas that will help build the transportation system of the 21st century,” said US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.Entries ...
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ArticleBosch opens new photovoltaics competence center
Bosch will coordinate global solar energy activities from Arnstadt (Photo: Bosch)Robert Bosch has opened a new 530 million euro photovoltaics center in Arnstadt, eastern Germany.The automotive supplier will coordinate its global photovoltaics activities from the 382,000 square meter facility. Bosch's solar energy division headquarters brings together research and development departments, ...
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ArticleConsultant: EVs to grow faster than expected in Germany
Toyota is one of many automakers planning an EV next year (Source: Toyota)A German management consultancy predicts that electric vehicle sales will grow faster in Germany than previously expected.In a study conducted with the SIIE research institute and the EBS business school, consultants Horvath & Partners concluded that Germany may ...
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Windows provide new interactive dimension in Toyota concept
Toyota’s windows of the future let passengers see the outside world differently (Photo: Toyota)Toyota Motor Europe (TME) joined forces with the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) last month to show how car windows could better connect people inside a vehicle to the world around them.The concept was another example ...
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ArticleUS govt to close down 800 data centers by 2015
373 US data centers will be closed by the end of 2012 (Photo: US government)The US Administration, citing the need to save money and increase efficiency, said it will shut down 800 of its data centers by 2015.The move, it says, will save taxpayers more than 3 billion dlrs.The government ...
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ArticleTomTom swings to loss, provides data to Flemish govt
TomTom is looking for new revenue streams as earnings took a tumble in the 2nd quarter (Photo: TomTom)TomTom, which posted a second-quarter loss last week, said it will provide historical traffic data to the government of Flanders as the northern Belgian region tries to improve congestion on its roads.The Dutch ...
