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Friday, July 13, 2012

GE Energy Teams Up with PayPal to Make Electric Vehicle Charging Payments Simple and Secure

GE Energy Teams Up with PayPal to Make Electric Vehicle Charging Payments Simple and Secure

GE Energy's Industrial Solutions business today announced details of the strategic agreement it entered with PayPal to launch the ecomagination-approved WattStation and WattStation Connect, a complete electric vehicle (EV) charging platform solution. ... Continue reading

Clean Diesel Technologies Reiterates Inducement Awards

Clean Diesel Technologies Reiterates Inducement Awards

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. ("Clean Diesel" or the "Company"), a cleantech emissions control company, has reiterated that on March 8, 2012 it granted inducement awards to R. Craig Breese, Clean Diesel's newly appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. The awards were previously announced in a Form 8-K filed w ... Continue reading

2013 SRT Viper GTS-R set to Return to American Le Mans Series Competition at Mid-Ohio

2013 SRT Viper GTS-R set to Return to American Le Mans Series Competition at Mid-Ohio

New Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Motorsports team features two identical SRT Viper GTS-Rs in the production-based GT class The 2013 SRT Viper GTS-R will make its first on-track race appearance Aug. 4 at the Mid-Ohio (Lexington, Ohio) Sports Car Course, SRT Motorsports officials announced today. "We're thrilled to ... Continue reading

Opel Unveils the Adam - Preview by Henny Hemmes +VIDEO

Opel Unveils the Adam - Preview by Henny Hemmes +VIDEO

By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor Opel, the European GM-division, that together with its twin brother Vauxhall of Great Britain has to quickly improve its sales record. One of the strategic models is the new Adam; a small city car in the so-called A-segment, where Opel needs new presence. The 145.6 inches long Ada ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: Global Automotive Tire Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and Forecast Analysis Tracks 12 Segments of the Global Automotive Tire Market

Research and Markets: Global Automotive Tire Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and Forecast Analysis Tracks 12 Segments of the Global Automotive Tire Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Automotive Tire Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and Forecast Analysis" report to their offering. “Global Automotive Tire Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and Forecast Analysis” The global automotive tire industry holds significant opportuni ... Continue reading

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group To Announce Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group To Announce Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. will announce second quarter 2012 financial results prior to market open on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. A conference call to review the Company's second quarter 2012 results will be held at 8:00 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 . Scott Thompson, Chairman, President and Chief Ex ... Continue reading

Agero Earns Regional Gold Awards From Global Contact Center Benchmarking Organization

Agero Earns Regional Gold Awards From Global Contact Center Benchmarking Organization

Agero, a leading provider of driver and vehicle assistance services in North America, was selected as the Gold Award winner for the "Best Customer Service" and "Best Large Contact Center" award categories at ContactCenterWorld.com's "Top Ranking Performers in the Contact Center World" Americas Regional Conference and A ... Continue reading

DataSource, Inc. Names David Holland CEO

DataSource, Inc. Names David Holland CEO

DataSource, Inc., one of America's leading supply chain management companies, announced today the promotion of its President, David Holland, to Chief Executive Officer. 'This is an exciting time for DataSource, and I look forward to working with the team in growing the Company over the years to come' Holland joined Dat ... Continue reading

Industry, government leadership at the forefront of the CAR Management Briefing Seminars agenda

Industry, government leadership at the forefront of the CAR Management Briefing Seminars agenda

Leaders from automotive manufacturers and suppliers, along with the Governors from the states of Michigan and Tennessee, will discuss strategies to keep the momentum of the automotive industry headed in the right direction during the 2012 Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Management Briefing Seminars (MBS), August 6 ... Continue reading

China Yuchai International's Joint Venture with Caterpillar Inaugurates Remanufacturing Plant

China Yuchai International's Joint Venture with Caterpillar Inaugurates Remanufacturing Plant

China Yuchai International Limited ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), announced today the inauguration of Yuchai Remanufacturing Services (Suzhou) Co., Ltd's ("Yuchai Remanufacturing") new permanent factory at Suzhou Industrial Park. The new factory will replace Yuchai Remanufacturing's operations at a temporary worksh ... Continue reading

Masters Of F3 - Daly To Run With Double R Racing

Masters Of F3 - Daly To Run With Double R Racing

London, Jul. 12, 2012: Highly-regarded American driver Conor Daly will join Double R Racing for the RTL GP Masters of Formula 3 event at Zandvoort in The Netherlands this weekend, July 14th & 15th, where he will partner with team regular, Geoff Uhrhane for Europe's blue riband F3 race meeting. Daly, the 20-year-old son ... Continue reading

Sprint Cup - Stewart New Hampshire Preview

Sprint Cup - Stewart New Hampshire Preview

KANNAPOLIS, Jul. 12, 2012: With a win and a second-place finish in his two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races last year at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, Tony Stewart proved to be rock solid in the Granite State. That his win was his third career Sprint Cup victory at the 1.058-mile oval and fifth overall, as Stew ... Continue reading

POWRi Midgets - Rookie Dillon Welch Remains 9th In Championship

POWRi Midgets - Rookie Dillon Welch Remains 9th In Championship

Wilmot, Jul. 12, 2012: Dillon Welch had limited experience driving on dirt prior to this year, causing him to bring a humble attitude into the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series. He’s proven to be a very competitive rookie, standing ninth in points going into events at Wilmot (Wis.) Raceway on Saturday (July 1 ... Continue reading

Sprint Cup - Newman New Hampshire Race Preview

Sprint Cup - Newman New Hampshire Race Preview

KANNAPOLIS, July 12, 2012: “Mission Accomplished.” That’s what Ryan Newman and the U.S. Army ROTC Racing team did last July at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon when the team took a dominant racecar from the pole position to victory lane. While it was Newman’s second victory since joining Stewa ... Continue reading

Sprint Cup - Matt Puccia Celebrates One Year Anniversary At New Hampshire

Sprint Cup - Matt Puccia Celebrates One Year Anniversary At New Hampshire

CONCORD, Jul. 12, 2012: This weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway will mark the one-year anniversary of Roush Fenway crew chief Matt Puccia being teamed up with driver Greg Biffle. After a rocky start to 2011 for Biffle, Puccia was brought in to take over as the crew chief on the No. 16 3M team. Immediately the two ... Continue reading

State Auto Financial Announces Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

State Auto Financial Announces Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

State Auto Financial Corporation , a super regional property and casualty insurance holding company, will discuss its second quarter 2012 results in a conference call on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, at 10 a.m. ET. The company plans to release its results on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, before the open of regular trading on the N ... Continue reading

Aluminum for Automobile Body Requires Breakthroughs in Alloy Performance and Application Technology

Aluminum for Automobile Body Requires Breakthroughs in Alloy Performance and Application Technology

As the demand for lightweight vehicles expands, aluminum has become the best alternative material for automobile construction due to its good mechanical property, processability, corrosion-resistance and weldability. With a density only one third of that of steel, the aluminum body of a passenger vehicle weighs 46% les ... Continue reading

Ford Partners with Feeding America to Make Experiencing the All-New Escape a Charitable Endeavor

Ford Partners with Feeding America to Make Experiencing the All-New Escape a Charitable Endeavor

Ford and Feeding America®, the nation's largest hunger-relief organization, will kick off the 2013 Ford Escape Hunger Drive in various cities around the United States - Guests at each Hunger Drive event will have the opportunity to experience the smart features on the all-new Ford Escape, including its hands-free lift ... Continue reading

DTS and Mitsubishi Take Multi-Channel Surround Sound on the Road

DTS and Mitsubishi Take Multi-Channel Surround Sound on the Road

DTS, Inc. , a leader in high-definition audio, today announced a collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors to integrate the DTS Neural Surround technology into the upgraded audio system of the new 2012 Delica D:5 minivan, which will launch in Japan in July 2012. Other Mitsubishi models with DTS Neural Surround technology wi ... Continue reading

Titan International Acquires Australian OTR Tire & Wheel Manufacturer: Planet Group

Titan International Acquires Australian OTR Tire & Wheel Manufacturer: Planet Group

Titan International, Inc. has signed an agreement to purchase a majority ownership interest in Planet Corporation Group of Companies (“Planet") in an all-cash transaction. Planet includes National Tyres, Acme Wheel, Resource Tyre and Choice Tyres Wholesalers and is based in Perth, Australia. ... Continue reading

Mangoletsi Dealership Welcomes Subaru To The Family

Mangoletsi Dealership Welcomes Subaru To The Family

Following a £1million investment to create a state-of-the-art showroom, long-established Cheshire car dealership, Mangoletsi, is teaming up with Japanese car maker Subaru. ... Continue reading

Audi Counts The Cost Of Business Travel With New Mileage Tracker App

Audi Counts The Cost Of Business Travel With New Mileage Tracker App

New free-to-download app tracks each journey using GPS mapping and precisely calculates business expense incurred ... Continue reading

Experience The C 63 AMG Coupe Black Series In The Roar At Mercedes-Benz World

Experience The C 63 AMG Coupe Black Series In The Roar At Mercedes-Benz World

From 14 July 2012, the stunning Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Coupé Black Series will be unleashed on the circuits at Mercedes-Benz World to take driving experiences to another dimension. ... Continue reading

Skoda Auto Posts Record Deliveries In First Half Of 2012

Skoda Auto Posts Record Deliveries In First Half Of 2012

Automobile manufacturer Skoda set a new sales record in the first half of 2012 as worldwide deliveries to customers increased by 8.4 per cent to more than 493,000 units from January through June ... Continue reading

Vauxhall Motors Achieves Investors In People Standard Across All UK Sites

Vauxhall Motors Achieves Investors In People Standard Across All UK Sites

Vauxhall Motors recently achieved the prestigious Investors in People Standard across all UK sites demonstrating true commitment to its employees as well as a solid foundation of excellent practice across the organisation. ... Continue reading

New Generation Hyundai i30 Awarded a 5-Star ANCAP Safety Rating -'One of the Safest Choices Within the Small Car Category'

New Generation Hyundai i30 Awarded a 5-Star ANCAP Safety Rating -'One of the Safest Choices Within the Small Car Category'

Named 'one of the safest choices within the small car category' by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), the new generation Hyundai i30 four-door hatch has been awarded the maximum five-star ANCAP safety rating. ... Continue reading

Five Star Safety for Holden's Colorado Crew Cab Range

Five Star Safety for Holden's Colorado Crew Cab Range

The all-new Colorado crew cab range has become the latest Holden to be awarded a maximum five-star safety rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). ... Continue reading

The All New BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe

The All New BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe

Once again BMW is venturing into a new vehicle segment with the Australian launch of the all new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe. ... Continue reading

Stellar Safety for New Colorado, i30 and BRZ

Stellar Safety for New Colorado, i30 and BRZ

The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) today congratulated the stellar achievements of the Holden Colorado, Hyundai i30 and Subaru BRZ - each achieving the maximum 5 star ANCAP safety rating in the most recent round of crash testing. ... Continue reading

Honda Civic Sedan On Best Green Cars List In U.S.

Honda Civic Sedan On Best Green Cars List In U.S.

The Honda Civic sedan has been named one of the '10 Best Green Cars of 2012' by America's largest car valuation company, Kelley Blue Book. ... Continue reading

2012 Volkswagen Passat SEL Premium Review by Carey Russ +VIDEO

2012 Volkswagen Passat SEL Premium Review by Carey Russ +VIDEO

DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS Volkswagen wants more market share, especially in the U.S. The American automotive market is very different from that of Europe, and so VW has changed its strategy. Formerly, Volkswagen cars and crossovers sold here were the same as those sold elsewhere, differing mostly in drivetr ... Continue reading

American Drivers: Beware of Everything the American Petroleum Institute Tells Us

American Drivers: Beware of Everything the American Petroleum Institute Tells Us

TOPEKA, Kansas, July 12, 2012 TOPEKA, Kansas, July 12, 2012 A new blend of motor vehicle fuel containing 15 percent ethanol known as E15 now available in Kansas could damage vehicle engines, the Kansas Petroleum Council warned consumers today. "We need to press the pause button on EPA's rush to allow higher amounts of ... Continue reading

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