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PUMP to Kick Oil Addiction by Edwin Black +VIDEO

PUMP to Kick Oil Addiction by Edwin Black +VIDEO

Special Report from Edwin Black and TheCuttingEdgeNews.com ISIS has trebled its forces within recent months and in large measure finances its expansion with $10 million to $20 million per week in illicit oil sales from as many as 70 captured oil wells. Iran now has multiplied its centrifuges to almost 20,000, enabling ... Continue reading

Ford Supports Second Season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS

Ford Supports Second Season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS

Ford is supporting the airing of the second season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which debuts Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. ET - Each hour-long episode will feature a 30-second spot that looks back at the history of Henry Ford and his visionary, family-owned company - Ford will engage viewers through ... Continue reading

SAP and Partners Seek Guinness World Record for the Longest Electric Vehicle Parade

SAP and Partners Seek Guinness World Record for the Longest Electric Vehicle Parade

SAP SE and partners have joined forces to attempt the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for the largest parade of electric vehicles. The current record stands at 481. Residents from across Silicon Valley with vehicles powered 100 percent by electric batteries will drive together in the city of Cupertino on Saturday, Septe ... Continue reading

Barra: India Auto Market Creates Opportunity for Chevrolet

Barra: India Auto Market Creates Opportunity for Chevrolet

General Motors CEO Mary Barra concluded a three-day fact-finding visit to India on Thursday, where she met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and key stakeholders throughout the country. “India represents a great opportunity for Chevrolet,” Barra said. “With a relatively small vehicle population an ... Continue reading

Buick Program to Benefit Schools

Buick Program to Benefit Schools

Test drive program in 100 communities across the country Buick to donate up to $10,000 per event to be shared among host schools Students gain valuable experience as event hosts DETROIT –- Sept. 12, 2014: Buick hopes to help 100 communities across the country offset the rising costs of after-school programs and re ... Continue reading

2015 Toyota Tacoma Shows What It Takes to Remain America's Best-Selling Compact Pickup

2015 Toyota Tacoma Shows What It Takes to Remain America's Best-Selling Compact Pickup

New TRD Pro Series for Serious Off-Roading Now Available Exclusively in Access Cab and Double Cab Styles Four-Cylinder or V6 Powertrains Up to 6,500-pound Towing Capacity Two Bed Lengths Available Limited Package TORRANCE, CA -- September 12, 2014: What does it take to be America’s best-selling compact pickup, yea ... Continue reading

Toyota Announces Recall of Certain Tundra Vehicles

Toyota Announces Recall of Certain Tundra Vehicles

– Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. will conduct a recall of approximately 130,000 Model Year 2014 Tundra Crew-Max Cab and Double Cab vehicles. In the involved vehicles, due to the possible misinstallation of a garnish on the center pillars, the garnish could interfere with the side Curtain-Shield-Airbags (CSA) in the ... Continue reading

2015 Kia Soul EV Pricing Announced

2015 Kia Soul EV Pricing Announced

Starting MSRP of $33,700(1) (not including federal tax rebate of $7,500) with an expected introductory lease price(2) of $249 per month makes all-new Soul EV a compelling offer for eco-conscious buyers - The 2015 Soul EV is Kia's first mass-market, all-electric, zero-emissions car and the centerpiece of the brand's Cle ... Continue reading

ZAP and Jonway Auto Hits Sales Milestone of Over 2000 EVs since June and Hosted Over 150 New Dealership Applicants

ZAP and Jonway Auto Hits Sales Milestone of Over 2000 EVs since June and Hosted Over 150 New Dealership Applicants

ZAP (ZAAP), an Electric Vehicle (EV) automotive company incorporated in California Bay Area, and its subsidiary Jonway Auto sold over 2000 Electric Vehicles since June 2014 when EV mass production started at its electric vehicle type-approved certified factory. The Companies' strategy is to continue to build its EV pro ... Continue reading

National Safety Council announces 2014 Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award winners

National Safety Council announces 2014 Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award winners

The National Safety Council today announced two winners of its 6th annual Teen Driving Safety Leadership Awards, supported by the General Motors Foundation. The Council will honor Gordy Pehrson of the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety, and the Nebraska-based Norfolk Panther JOOI (Junior Optimist Octagon International) ... Continue reading

GAC MOTOR Starts the Great Time Journey From China to France

GAC MOTOR Starts the Great Time Journey From China to France

The motorcade of the Asian-European Tour from China to France, which set off from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on September 5th, has arrived in Manzhouli, China's northernmost city, after five days on the road. The motorcade will now officially move beyond the Chinese border. The 18,000-kilometer Humanistic E ... Continue reading

10 Best New-Car Deals For September

10 Best New-Car Deals For September

The experts from Kelley Blue Book have assembled their list of the 10 best lease, financing and cash back deals available in September from a variety of auto manufacturers. "September's list of standout lease and financing deals is especially wide-ranging, including luxury cars, an all-electric, and a high-strung hatch ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Launches Rescue Assist

Mercedes-Benz Launches Rescue Assist

Mercedes-Benz has created an incredibly simple and effective way of cutting the time it takes to extract the occupants of a car at the scene of a crash – the unlikely solution is a humble set of stickers. Called Rescue Assist, the stickers are part of a programme being introduced to the UK for the first time. They ... Continue reading

Dagenham Diesel Centre Builds its 3 Millionth Low Carbon Engine

Dagenham Diesel Centre Builds its 3 Millionth Low Carbon Engine

Ford’s three-millionth UK-built small-capacity diesel engine has rolled off the line at Ford’s state-of-the-art manufacturing centre at Dagenham. Low-carbon diesel engines have been built at the Dagenham Diesel Centre plant for a variety of models across the Ford range, and for other manufacturers, since prod ... Continue reading

Ferrari Reports a Record First

Ferrari Reports a Record First

Revenues: 1,348.6 million euro (+14.5%) Trading profit: 185 million euro (+5.2%) Net profits: 127.6 million euro (+9.8%) Record net industrial financial position: 1,594 million euro – an unprecedented result Homologated cars delivered: 3,631 (- 3.6%) but 2014 will close with deliveries +5% USA remains largest mark ... Continue reading

Maserati Appointed Official Supplier to Barclaycard Mercury Prize

Maserati Appointed Official Supplier to Barclaycard Mercury Prize

– Last night Maserati helped the Barclaycard Mercury Prize celebrate the announcement of its shortlist for the prestigious 2014 Album of the Year in London’s Covent Garden as the luxury Italian car manufacturer is named ‘Official Supplier’ to the Barclaycard Mercury Prize. A fleet of stunning new Ma ... Continue reading

Idris Elba Arrives in a Heritage Land Rover at the Invictus Games Opening Ceremony in Queen Elizabeth Park

Idris Elba Arrives in a Heritage Land Rover at the Invictus Games Opening Ceremony in Queen Elizabeth Park

HISTORIC LAND ROVER LEADS OUT THE INVICTUS GAMES OPENING CEREMONY The heritage Land Rover carrying Idris Elba during the Invictus Games opening ceremony previously carried Her Majesty the Queen and the late Queen Mother during the 1970s/80s. It is a Land Rover Series IIa, a British icon that has been evolving for 65 ye ... Continue reading

New Nissan GT-R NISMO for GT Academy Competitors

New Nissan GT-R NISMO for GT Academy Competitors

Nissan and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that the brand new Nissan GT-R NISMO is now available for Gran Turismo®6. The GT-R NISMO is the ultimate articulation of the R35 GT-R. First released in 2007, Nissan and engineers have been meticulously honing the GT-R's performance with each version of the ... Continue reading

SsangYong XIV-Air and Adventure Revealed in Paris

SsangYong XIV-Air and Adventure Revealed in Paris

Global debut of XIV-Air and XIV-Adventure, the final development concepts of X100 B-segment SUV offers style and practicality SsangYong Motor Company (CEO Yoo-il Lee; www.smotor.com) will unveil two development concepts, XIV-Air and XIV-Adventure at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, 2nd (press ... Continue reading

The Volvo Group One of the World's Most Sustainable Companies

The Volvo Group One of the World's Most Sustainable Companies

The Volvo Group (STO:VOLVA) (STO:VOLVB) once again qualifies for the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI). The Volvo Group receives a particularly good rating for its work with environmental issues. In this ranking, the world’s 3,000 largest companies are assessed on the basis of their strategies, implement ... Continue reading

Fiat Group Automobiles Approves three Axalta Coating Systems Refinish Brands for Dealers and Mopar Bodyshops in Europe

Fiat Group Automobiles Approves three Axalta Coating Systems Refinish Brands for Dealers and Mopar Bodyshops in Europe

Axalta Coating Systems, a global automotive coatings leader, announces that Fiat Group Automobiles Mopar Parts & Service and Customer Care division has approved Axalta’s three global refinish brands “ Cromax, Spies Hecker and Standox - for use in selected dealerships and bodyshops across Europe. “this new ag ... Continue reading

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