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Quantum Technologies Announces Expiration of Series C Warrants Issued in March 2012 Public Offering

Quantum Technologies Announces Expiration of Series C Warrants Issued in March 2012 Public Offering

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (the "Company") , announced today that 19,110,000 Series C Warrants issued in connection with the Company's public offering of stock and warrants that was completed in March 2012 have expired in accordance with their terms and are no longer outstanding. About Quantum Qu ... Continue reading

NEDAK Ethanol Announces Temporary Halt in Production

NEDAK Ethanol Announces Temporary Halt in Production

NEDAK Ethanol, LLC (NEDAK) has temporarily suspended production of ethanol at the plant it operates in Atkinson, Nebraska in order to conduct its regular spring maintenance and to monitor the corn and ethanol markets. 'The surplus of ethanol combined with the increased demand for corn from developing countries has furt ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2012-2022

Research and Markets: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2012-2022

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2012-2022" report to their offering. This report covers the full picture of how electric vehicles by land, water and air will be externally charged. They are hugely increasing in number - we give the forecasts by type - and ... Continue reading

World Health Organization's Cancer Claims Don't Account for Clean Diesels

World Health Organization's Cancer Claims Don't Account for Clean Diesels

In response to this week's World Health Organization (WHO) report naming diesel exhaust a Class 1 carcinogen, shopautoweek.com asserts that fans of clean-diesel vehicles should not panic: WHO's cancer claims do not directly apply here. if sensational headlines based on the WHO's pronouncement serve to derail the signif ... Continue reading

Volvo Group to Strengthen Its Range of Trucks Powered by Natural Gas in the North American Market

Volvo Group to Strengthen Its Range of Trucks Powered by Natural Gas in the North American Market

Regulatory News: Under the Mack brand, the range of trucks powered by natural gas will be expanded by a further two models during 2013, Mack Pinnacle and Mack Granite. The expansion entails that the Volvo Group (STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB) will be also able to offer North American customers trucks powered by natural gas in t ... Continue reading

Tata Technologies Completed the First Feasibility Study of its Electric Vehicle Using Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Tata Technologies Completed the First Feasibility Study of its Electric Vehicle Using Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Dassault Systemes (Paris:DSY)(Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, a world leader in 3D design, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Tata Technologies heavy use of Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, based on Version 6 technology, for its r ... Continue reading

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB Acquires the Main Assets of Saab Automobile

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB Acquires the Main Assets of Saab Automobile

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB to establish a new venture for development and manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs) in Trollhättan, Sweden. National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) and the Receivers of the Saab Automobile bankruptcy estate today signed a purchase agreement which covers the main assets of S ... Continue reading

BorgWarner Provides Innovative Friction Technology For ZF's Automatic Hybrid Transmissions

BorgWarner Provides Innovative Friction Technology For ZF's Automatic Hybrid Transmissions

BorgWarner's leading expertise in friction plate design and materials improves shift performance and efficiency for the ZF full hybrid 8-speed automatic transmission. The parallel hybrid transmission launched in the 2012 Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro and will also be featured in the Audi A6, A8 and BMW 5-series hybrids. "Borg ... Continue reading

Retailer of Gas and Diesel Products Launches New Website

Retailer of Gas and Diesel Products Launches New Website

California-based internet retailer, Tom's Investment LLC, today announced a new e-commerce website, selling all-in-one gas and diesel boosters. Founder and President of Tom's Investment LLC, Tom Green, states, "We wanted to create a destination where consumers could invest in green products that help operators comply w ... Continue reading

Top U.S. CNG Vehicle Converter, BAF Technologies, Acquires ServoTech, A Leading Auto Emissions Solutions Provider

Top U.S. CNG Vehicle Converter, BAF Technologies, Acquires ServoTech, A Leading Auto Emissions Solutions Provider

BAF Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , today announced the acquisition of Belleville, Michigan-based ServoTech Engineering, Inc., an auto emissions solutions provider. BAF, the leading U.S. provider of natural gas vehicle systems and conversions, recently produced its 20,000th compres ... Continue reading

Remy International Signs Long Term Supply Agreement with VIA Motors

Remy International Signs Long Term Supply Agreement with VIA Motors

Remy, Inc.'s Electric Motor Division and VIA Motors have announced a joint agreement to supply powertrains for the VIA Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (eREV). VIA offers a full lineup of extended-range electric trucks, vans and SUVs called VTRUX, each equipped with the company's eREV powertrain. The eREV powertrain ena ... Continue reading

Electric Cars Merely a Green Illusion, According to New Environmental Book

Electric Cars Merely a Green Illusion, According to New Environmental Book

Hybrid and electric cars are neither clean nor green according to a new environmental book, Green Illusions (June 2012, University of Nebraska Press), written by University of California - Berkeley visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner. Green Illusions exposes numerous hidden side effects of new hybrid and electric cars, such ... Continue reading

SAE International Book Focuses on Hybrid Vehicle Design

SAE International Book Focuses on Hybrid Vehicle Design

With more than 20 different hybrid cars available from most major automakers, hybrid vehicles are a crucial and growing market segment. Additionally, with several high profile plug-in hybrids coming out now or within the next year, innovation and development of hybrid vehicles is continuing at an ever-growing pace. Con ... Continue reading

Avnet Express' Drive for Innovation Donates Chevrolet Volt to Chances for Children Arizona

Avnet Express' Drive for Innovation Donates Chevrolet Volt to Chances for Children Arizona

Approximately 17 percent of American children between the ages of two and 19 are obese, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures indicate -- and those numbers climb even higher for children in low income families. Arizona-based charity Chances for Children works to give children in low-income families a chanc ... Continue reading

ALTe Powertrain Technologies Pledges Clinton Global Initiative "Commitment to Action" to Facilitate Electrification of Global Fleets

ALTe Powertrain Technologies Pledges Clinton Global Initiative "Commitment to Action" to Facilitate Electrification of Global Fleets

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, developer of the first range-extended plug-in electric hybrid powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications, today announced that it has created a Commitment to Action as part of the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting. ALTe has committed to spur adoption o ... Continue reading

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