ortage Ford cuts 2 shifts for one week at Chicago Assembly due to semiconductor shortage Ford idles Louisville, Oakville assembly plants due to severe weather Ford begins 2021 Escape production, Escape PHEV to begin in April GM, Ford, Toyota, Nissan production interrupted due to winter weather, gas supplies Ford building F-150s, Edge without electronic modules, halting Louisville, Cologne production Ford idles multiple North American plants...

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ed a new generation of the Irizar i6S model coach that is more efficient, sustainable, and profitable. With the new Irizar i6S, consumption and emissions have been reduced up to 13%, weight is down to 950 kg and the aerodynamic coefficient is 30% lower. It is prepared for diesel, biodiesel, natural gas, and biogas and it’s designed to be adapted to future zero-emissions models. The versions adapted to each market will be presented in every coun...

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ehicles. The Portfolio Investments has been appointed as the consultant for all three transactions. MAN on Aug 10, announced at this year's World Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan, MAN Truck & Bus will be presenting the low-floor CNG city bus for the Central Asian market. MAN Truck & Bus is now bringing a gas bus to market, produced locally as part of the joint venture with MAN Auto Uzbekistan. The 12 m low-floor bus with CNG drive is based on a MAN cha...

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us from its UK arm Optare, at the Bus & Special Vehicles Show on January 15. The Versa EV is the low-floor electric bus which can accommodate up to 44 seats, which will be launched in India by 2017. Ashok Leyland also presented the 12m FESLF CNG (front-engine, semi low-floor, and compressed natural gas) and the MiTR School bus at the show. Nissan has sent a notice to Ashok Leyland terminating its technology development joint venture Nissan Ashok ...

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des Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) variants in two engine options and enhanced capability in the Four-Wheel Drive (4WD) variants. The Diesel variants of the RWD range come powered by an all-new D117 CRDe engine producing 117 BHP and 300 Nm torque (87.2 kW at 3500 rpm) with manual transmission. Powering the Gasoline variant of the RWD range is the mStallion 150 TGDi engine producing 150 BHP and 320 Nm torque (112 kW at 5000 rpm) with automatic transmissio...

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reparation for production in the near future. On August 20, the Minister of Industry and Transport visited El Nasr Automotive Company. He inspected the bus factory, which was restarted at the end of last year. The plant is working on environmentally friendly buses that run on electricity or natural gas (Nasr Green). At present, the factory produces the 12-meter-long Nasr Sky tourist bus, as well as the 8-meter-long Nasr Star minibus. On November ...

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e Port, UK Stellantis Luton workers plan two-day protest against factory closure in UK Stellantis closes Luton plant after 120 years, shifting operations to Ellesmere Port in UK Vauxhall’s Luton manufacturing site introduces third shift Opel Sister Vauxhall delivers 1,000 Vivaro-e to British Gas Stellantis starts production of Fiat Professional Scudo in Luton, UK plant Stellantis celebrates 1.5 million Vivaro vans at Luton Plant Vauxhall M...

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een performed in Russia by the engineering center of Yaroslavl Engine Plant, PJSC 'Avtodiesel'. On August 19, Yaroslavl Motor Plant "Avtodiesel" announced that it would present the new YaMZ-537 CNG engine at the international exhibition MIMS Automobility Moscow 2024. The power range of YaMZ-537 CNG gas engines is from 210 to 300 hp, the maximum torque is from 830 to 1,250 Nm. It is a new 6-cylinder in-line gas engine of the fifth environmental cl...

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assemble 1,175 thousand units of the Lada, Renault and Nissan models in 2017 and 1,072 thousand in 2020. OAO AvtoVAZ commenced production of the standard type saloon and hatchback versions of the "Lada Priora" equipped with an 8-valve 90 hp engine with an electronically controlled throttle valve (E-gas). It will produce 700 cars in June and 800 in August. The sales prices are 318,800 rubles for the saloon and 324,800 rubles for the hatchback. The...

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orders for them after the vehicles passed inspection audit by quality engineers from Isuzu Mortors (Japan). Sollers-Isuzu plans to annually produce 1,000 to 1,500 Forward series trucks at the Ulyanovsk plant. UAZ launched the upgraded Patriot SUV on November 17. Price starts at RUB 649,000 for the gasoline engine version and at RUB 719,990 for the diesel version. On August 20, 2015, OAO UAZ launched the new Patriot SUV. The new Patriot will be e...

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cial vehicle division announced on November 16 supply of 7,000 engines and 15,000 axles a year to Kamaz. Daimler will deliver to the Naberezhnye Chelny Plant of Kamaz front and rear axles for trucks and buses from its Gaggenau Plant in Germany and "OM457" diesel engines for trucks and "M906"natural gas engines for buses from the Mannheim Plant in Germany. The natural gas engine compliant with the EEV (Enhanced Environmentally Friendly Vehicle) de...

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GAZ Group, Likino Bus Plant (LiAZ) Bus: LiAZ 6213, LiAZ 5292, LiAZ 4292, Citymax-12 (2025-); Electric bus LiAZ-6274 (2023-); Natural Gas Bus：LiAZ-5292 LNG (2021-) Bus assembly plant of GAZ group - Number of employees: 2,500 (as of August 2025). - Investments: LiAZ to invest more than RUB 1.3 billion (USD 14 million) for the production of new large-class low-floor buses (diesel version). It will receive RUB 760 million (USD 8 million) as a pr...

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om July 2020 Seat opens the doors of its new electromobility training centre SEAT to build battery test center in Martorell plant CUPRA kicks off production of the new Formentor CUPRA boosts electrification and starts production of the Formentor e-Hybrid All-new SEAT Leon now available with natural gas option as production of 1.5 TGI 130PS DSG version begins SEAT adds third SUV as flagship in 2018, launches Arona crossover in 2017 SEAT invests ...

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y. The X1 showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show is scheduled to be released on October 24. The car will be offered in six engine choices, as it follows: xDrive28i, xDrive23d, xDrive20d, sDrive20d, xDrive18d and sDrive18d. The most powerful unit, fitted on the ‚˜Drive28i, is a six-cylinder, 258hp gasoline unit. It can reach sixty in 6.8 seconds and tops at a speed of 205km/h (230km/h with optional high-speed set-up). BMW AG will exhibit a purel...

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traubling, Germany BMW Regensburg plant uses AI to improve vehicle inspections BMW upgrades plants with cloud-based SAP technology BMW Regensburg plant launches outdoor automated vehicle movement, plans for global rollout On August 5, BMW announced that its Regensburg plant is shifting from natural gas to renewable energy by gradually electrifying its paint shops. A pilot project shows how this can be done quickly using thermal oil technology. Th...

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PVI, a Renault Group subsidiary in Gretz-Armainvilliers. HYVIA also revealed its hydrogen refuelling station prototype that allows fast fueling time of 5 minutes. It has a simple operation in which hydrogen supplied will either be generated on-site using water electrolysis or supplied in bulk using gaseous tube trailers. The system compresses H2 into storage, before dispensing it into the vehicle when needed. Hydrogen refuelling station will be a...

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The maximum output is 230ps/265ps, and maximum torque is 230ps/265ps. Acceleration from 0 to 100km/h takes 7 seconds. CO2 emissions are under 200g/km. Launching of the production model is scheduled for the fall of 2008. The "Laguna Sport Tourer" launched in October 2007 comes with engines; two 2.0L gasoline types (140hp/170hp), one 1.5L diesel type (110hp) and three 2.0L diesel types (30hp/150hp/175hp). While a 6-speed manual transmission is stan...

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fotainment system with Google Built in. Renault S.A. has released the all-new Megane Coupe-Cabriolet. The model was unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in January as a car that adopts Renault’s latest front design, update Renault R-Link infotainment system and other new features. The price of the gasoline-powered version, the Energy Tce 130, starts from EUR 29,950 while the diesel version, the dCi 110, is sold at from EUR 32,800. Renault will d...

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plant, capacity expansion and upgrading the facility are now in progress. The automaker is also planning to double the annual capacity at the Manesar to 600,000 by April 2014. Following a success of the A-Star hatchback exported to Europe, Maruti Suzuki will ship the Ritz compact fitted with a 1.2L gasoline engine to Indonesia, setting Southeast Asia as its next target. First batch of 500 units have been shipped. Suzuki Motor, Maruti Suzuki's par...

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comes with MAN's diesel engine and ZF's A/T and axles. GAZ also signed a contract in February to supply 29 units of the LIAZ-5292 that meets Euro 5/EEV (the total price of the contract is over RUB 2.3 million). On June 21, GAZ Group announced that it signed a contract in the sphere of using natural gas with Gazprom. GAZ Group will build NGVs while Gazprom will supply natural gas and build a filling station network to support the operation of test...

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