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A consortium coordinated by Better Place and including Renault SA, Continental, Ernst & Young, TÜV Rheinland, KEMA and five leading European institutions today announced formal approval from the European Commission for an R&D program to make it easier for European automobile and battery manufacturers to build electric cars with switchable batteries. Today’s announcement is the first project for switchable battery electric cars approved by the ...

GE and Better Place recently announced a technology and financing partnership to accelerate the global deployment of electric vehicle infrastructure through collaboration in four key areas: standards-based technology development, battery financing, joint fleet electrification programs and consumer awareness.

As buzz continues to grow for one of 2012’s most eagerly-anticipated cars – the 100% electric, two seater Twizy, Renault has launched a competition with a top prize to delight college and university students alike up and down the country. The French marque has launched a design competition for the new electric runabout, with one lucky winner set to receive enough money to cover a years’ worth of tuition fees (imagine the amount of supermark...

The combination of Edbro’s CX14 lightweight tipping gear and an Aliweld Highsider aluminium tipper body is enabling W. Rolls Transport of Somerset to realise extra capacity from its latest 20-tonne payload eight-wheeler vehicle, making longer distance and larger haulage jobs more commercially competitive.

Parker Hannifin is once again sponsoring Team ARAVI Racing in its specially modified Renault Premium race truck class. The team is using the latest generation of advanced fuel filters from Racor Filter Division Europe, helping it maximise its chances of success under demanding conditions.

Molex has announced that its HSAutoLink cable connection system fully supports the new 1394 Trade Association Automotive specification The new specification, which was introduced in July last year, extends the original IDB- 1394 Automotive Standard that stipulates the use of optical media to include operation over cabling media.

A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate lithium ion batteries and systems, today announced the creation of two focused business groups -- one dedicated to the transportation market and the other to cell design and development -- to best serve customers across all of A123's vertical markets. The newly formed business organizations are the Automotive Solutions Group, led by Jason Forcier, and the Cell Products Group, le...

Ramtron International has announced that Daesung-Eltec Co. Ltd. of Korea has designed FRAM memory into its new digital signal processing (DSP)-based car audio platform. Daesung-Eltec selected the FM24C64 - a 64-kilobit FRAM with 2-wire serial interface – to enable sophisticated memory functions such as storing audio, channel and favourite artist/song settings, as well as the resume play and the favourite artist/song alert features. FRAM’s n...

Telelogic has expanded its partner ecosystem by forming a strategic alliance with Willert Software Tools GmbH. Through this partnership Telelogic Rhapsody® will provide the first Model-Driven Development™ (MDD™) environment for automotive software development that complies with Open Systems and Corresponding Interfaces for Automotive Electronic (OSEK) and is based on the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) 2.0 and SysML.

Advances in engine technology are helping motorists weather the storm of spiralling fuel prices, according to CAP, the car price experts.