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Toyota settled patent dispute with company Paice on hybrid drive

July 25, 2010 | 11:34pm CEToriginal
Toyota uses it in its Prius and other hybrid models. The companies withdrew all reciprocal actions...
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Skoda Joyster: Carmaker to allegedly give its new entry-model old-new name

July 23, 2010 | 01:01am CEToriginal
Petrol and diesel engines, drive and engine mounting, prices, marketing, and the fourth brand for a mini car from Bratislava...
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E.ON preparing another station for CNG vehicles and electric cars in Czech Rep, not yet planning to build network

July 23, 2010 | 12:49am CEToriginal
The third CNG filling station, the second charging station for electric cars, the forthcoming autumn campaign on e-mobility…
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Auto Esa urged Government to address situation around tachometer twisting and other problems in industry

July 23, 2010 | 12:09am CEToriginal
The company has submitted several proposals regarding the tachometers and vehicle transfer. The Ministry of Transport is preparing an amendment to...
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J.D. Power: Car production in North America up by 72% in H1, growth to be only 9% in H2

July 22, 2010 | 11:41pm CEToriginal
Decline in production growth has been registered by the United Kingdom as well. J.D. Power also reduced the estimate of car sales in the U.S. in 2010 to...
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Kia Motors confirmed outlook of production in Slovakia in 2010

July 22, 2010 | 11:30pm CEToriginal
Production rose by 67% in H1, the plant in Zilina produced a record 20,300 cars in June. Production of engines, the summer shutdown of production...
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58,200 more new and used cars on Czech market in H1

July 22, 2010 | 11:19pm CEToriginal
However, the number of registered cars went up by 40,787 units during H1. Explanation of the difference, the growing demand of companies and demand for diesel engines...
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Fitch improved rating outlook of four European carmakers, did not change their ratings though

July 22, 2010 | 11:07pm CEToriginal
The agency has improved the outlook for the carmakers Peugeot, Renault, Daimler and Volkswagen; the outlook for Fiat has remained negative. Details of the rating...
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Halfords showed loss of CZK 330 million in Czech Rep since 2007

July 22, 2010 | 10:57pm CEToriginal
Although sales went up by 15.3 % in the financial year 2009/2010, operating loss tripled...
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Production of vehicles in Czech Rep up by 18% in H1, passenger cars by 18.3%

July 22, 2010 | 09:58am CEToriginal
Skoda Auto increased production by 16.7%, TPCA by 1.8%, Hyundai by 83.7%, Avia by 52.6%, SOR by 3.8%. Conversely, Tatra and Iveco decreased production...
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Porsche plans SUV smaller than Cayenne, production to be decided next week

July 22, 2010 | 03:00am CEToriginal
Keeping the current jobs in Germany by 2015 in exchange for productivity growth of 6% per year, investment up to EUR 1 billion in Germany...
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Test tracks and air tunnel for cars and buses to be established in Central Bohemia

July 22, 2010 | 02:46am CEToriginal
Location, size and parameters of the project, starting construction, proximity to plants of the carmakers Skoda Auto and TPCA...
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Toyota Motor possibly to cut production in Japan by 20% from October

July 22, 2010 | 02:37am CEToriginal
The reason is an expected drop in demand due to the end of government subsidies for car sales. The current and projected daily production for Q4...
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Informa to organize conference on electric vehicles development in Asia in Seoul in late September

July 22, 2010 | 02:27am CEToriginal
The second year of the conference is linked with workshops on electric cars standards and development of batteries. Speakers and participants...
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SOVA, Cebia: Used-car shops’ punishment being not enough, necessary to focus on companies handling mileage too

July 22, 2010 | 02:13am CEToriginal
SOVA discovered 43 companies on the Web offering tachometers’ modification in the Czech Republic. Cebia recorded a car with a rewound tachometer for about 620,000 km...
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Ford Motor and partner Jiangling Motors to build new factory in China

July 22, 2010 | 02:00am CEToriginal
The amount of investment, operation start-up, annual production capacity, currently plants in China and their parameters...
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Schaeffler wants to build three plants in Asia by 2012, expand existing plants and to strengthen development

July 21, 2010 | 01:36am CEToriginal
The new plants in China and India will be added to the 11 existing in Asia. The total investment should reach EUR 300 million...
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Honda to launch first plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles on market in 2012

July 21, 2010 | 01:27am CEToriginal
Firstly, it will be in Japan and the USA. Even before the carmaker is going to expand the range of its hybrid models, now including Insight and CR-Z, for the Fit and Civic...
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Subway wants to open fast-food restaurants at filling stations and car showrooms in CEE

July 21, 2010 | 01:19am CEToriginal
The first corner with fast food in Poland, the planned expansion, reduced input costs for partners with lesser area intensity...
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Toyota's first electric car with Tesla engine to be RAV4 SUV

July 21, 2010 | 01:06am CEToriginal
Both the carmakers are testing the first prototype; others will be added by the end of 2010. The electric Toyota RAV4 will go on sale in the U.S. in...
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General Motors to continue production in Strasbourg, employees agreed to freeze wages

July 21, 2010 | 12:56am CEToriginal
GM took the French factory back from the Motors Liquidation and it intends to allocate the production of new products...
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Insurance companies in Czech Rep: Despite drop of fatalities in H1 amount of damage still not falling

July 21, 2010 | 12:46am CEToriginal
It is caused by the high damage. Insurance companies, however, do not expect to raise the damage liability or accident insurance...
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Winterkorn: Electric cars will have share of 3% in Volkswagen sales by 2018

July 21, 2010 | 12:09am CEToriginal
VW’s first electric car is to be the Golf in 2013. However, several hybrids such as the Jetta will come before that…
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E.ON opened its second CNG filling station in Czech Rep

July 20, 2010 | 11:58pm CEToriginal
There is the first one in Ceske Budejovice, the second one was built in Svoboda nad Upou. E.ON plans to build more…
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Toyota Motor to build new plant in Brazil

July 20, 2010 | 11:49pm CEToriginal
It will be the third plant in the country, which officially opens in H2 2012. Location, amount of the investment, production capacity, the planned staffing...
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