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GKN plc announces its agreement to acquire the all-wheel-drive (AWD) components businesses of Getrag KG, the privately held German company controlled by the Hagenmeyer family. The businesses being acquired, together referred to as “Getrag Driveline Products”, are Getrag Corporation, a joint venture with Dana Corporation based in the United States, and Getrag All Wheel Drive AB, a joint venture with Dana Holding Corporation and Volvo Car Corp...

Enova Systems has delivered 4 incremental 120kW drive systems to Optare Plc for integration into their Solo Electric Bus.

Electric vehicles larger than cars include many boats, trucks, buses and other industrial and commercial vehicles, manned and unmanned aircraft and military vehicles for the field of combat and supply lines, even tugs for aircraft. Some electric vehicles are the size of a car but pack a much bigger punch. For example, forklifts and earthmovers can have much more powerful motors with many times the kW and Nm torque of car motors. Autonomous Underw...

The Board of Directors of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has elected Sergio Marchionne, Chief Executive Officer of Fiat S.p.A. as well as Chairman and CEO of Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A., as the association’s President for 2012.

Volvo Trucks’ November deliveries increased 45% year-on-year to 11,349 trucks. In total, deliveries in Europe amounted to 4,418 trucks in November, up 35% compared with the corresponding period of 2010. Delivery increases were noted in such countries as the United Kingdom, France and Sweden.

STMicroelectronics today announced that the two companies are co-developing the next generation of their System-on-Chip processor for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market.

Excavators without drivers, virtual sheet painting and electric buses that charge in ten minutes. The Volvo Group is opening the door to the future, with its new Tech World website. For the first time, many of the research projects on which the company’s engineers are working will be openly displayed.

When the first results of the pan-European euroFOT field study are presented in Brussels on June 26th, the conclusion is clear: Volvo Trucks’ active safety systems help drivers avoid accidents.

B&B Electronics Europe, experts in rugged wireless and wired M2M connectivity solutions, has provided an extensive fibre, cellular and wireless communications network for the Volvo Ocean Race Galway Grand Finale, the nine-day festival built around the final leg and finish line of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 in Galway, Ireland, June 30 – July 8.

Altair Engineering today announced the release of Altair HyperWorks 10.0, an even more powerful version of its popular integrated computer-aided engineering software suite. This new release builds upon the breadth of solver solutions and computation speed of RADIOSS, launches several first-to-market design optimization advancements, introduces a new mathematical analysis software technology, and extends its market leadership position in modeling ...