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AUTO SALES: India displaces Germany to become fourth-largest auto market
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: AUTO SALES
- Source: Financial Times
India has displaced Germany as the world’s fourth-largest market for vehicle sales by volume and is on track to take the number three position from Japan within three years. Commercial and passenger vehicle sales in India grew 8.3 per cent last year to 3.99m, overtaking the 3.74m of sales in Germany, a market that grew less than 1 per cent, according to data from LMC Automotive, a market intelligence provider. McKinsey has projected that India is poised to overtake Japan as the third-biggest mar
View full storyAUTO SALES: China's First Car Sales Dip in 3 Decades Stirs Stimulus Talk
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: AUTO SALES
- Source: Bloomberg
China vehicle sales fell for the first time in 28 years, raising the prospect of a government-led stimulus to revive demand in the world’s biggest auto market as consumers from Europe to U.S. balk at buying new cars.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: PAU: Hydrogen infrastructure plans have started
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Fuel Cell Buses
Last Friday, a new step in the FEBUS project was unveiled : the construction works of the refuelling station have started to prepare the way for FEBUS, the first worldwide BRT system using fuel cell buses.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: Faurecia estimates China electrification to reach 25%
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Just Auto
Faurecia says it believes electrification will approach 25% of the car park in China as a rising global population coupled with increased longevity will drive alternative mobility solutions.
View full storyPGM PRODUCERS: Amcu gears up for secondary strike at Sibanye's platinum operations
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: PGM PRODUCERS
- Source: Independent Online
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) on Monday, gave notice of its intention to embark on secondary strike action at Sibanye-Stillwater's platinum operations around Rustenburg in support of the current strike at the mine's gold operations on the West Rand and in the Free State.
View full storyJEWELLERY; Platinum App sells platinum jewellery and bar at factory price to customers
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: JEWELLERY
- Source: SZ News
“Platinum” APP is a platinum jewelry and bar sales platform developed by Shenzhen Jingxin Gold Co., Ltd., which adopts the “F2C” mode (F2C refers to Factory to customer, that is, from the manufacturer to The consumer's e-commerce model) serves consumers in a more convenient and affordable mode.
View full storyEMISSIONS: Uber Clean Air Fee sees London passengers charged 15p extra per mile from Wednesday
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Verdict
Uber says that the money raised will go towards moving all Uber drivers to electric vehicles by 2025. This will be achieved initially by helping drivers to upgrade to fully electric cars, with surplus money raised put into clean air schemes and ongoing costs associated with running these electric vehicles.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: India's electric vehicle goals being realized on two wheels, not four
- Date: 14-01-19
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Reuters
GOVE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hurt by high fuel prices, Vinod Gore, a farmer in Gove village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, ditched his petrol scooter for an electric model, underlining how two-wheelers are driving the country’s goal of electrification of its vehicles.
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