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Manufacturing & Engineering: Toyota Announces Manufacturing, Engineering Executive Changes

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) announces the following senior management changes, effective January 4, 2010: Visit @Toyota ACCESS to receive your news via e-mail. Update your RSS feed preferences. [...]

Hybrid market share to top 3 percent in 2010

Can the Fusion hybrid keep pace? According to Edmunds.com, hybrid cars will achieve a 3.2 percent market share in 2010 compared to about 2.7 percent share today. Unfortunately, Edmunds doesn’t go into much detail as to how their hybrid numbers were derived, but one can imagine that a slightly less recessed economy is probably the key ingredient. [...] [...]

Study: Plug-in hybrid impact minimal for decades

Not for the masses A new study by the US National Research Council finds that plug-in hybrid costs are likely to remain high for decades, therefore, PHEV impact on foreign oil dependency and CO2 emissions is likely to remain low until after 2030. By 2030, the council expects about 13, but up to 40, million plug-in hybrid [...] [...]

Audi exec continues hybrid and EV slam

Still not viable even after a $7500 tax credit? Yesterday, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen, continued his attack on the political love affair between D.C. politicians, including President Obama, and electric cars, claiming that plug-ins were probably two decades away from widespread use. “The 50 percent or so price increase that the Volt represents over [...] [...]

2010 MUSTANG PERFORMS THE IMPOSSIBLE ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP

World champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. kicked off Ford Mustang’s ’10 Unleashed campaign by taking the American muscle car to drift the streets of Japan. For the 10th and final installment of Unleashed, Vaughn finds himself playing a different role. [...]

FORD NOVEMBER SALES INCREASE BY 19.8 PER CENT ACROSS EUROPE FUELED BY STRONG RETAIL SALES

COLOGNE, December 14, 2009 – Ford of Europe’s total vehicle sales jumped by 19.8 per cent in November in its main 19 European markets, marking the company’s sixth consecutive monthly volume increase and resulting in a 9.1 per cent November year-to-date market share – the highest since 1999. [...]