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Updates from September, 2011

  • The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight panel has asked Ford to explain why it pulled a TV commercial critical of the Obama administration's auto bailout.
    6:02 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight panel has asked Ford to explain why it pulled a TV commercial critical of the Obama administration's auto bailout.
    6:02 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • Nissan North America product planning chief Larry Dominique, who has been influential in Nissan- and Infiniti-brand product creation for the past decade, has left the company.
    5:42 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • Bubble-shaped vehicles will appear on Paris streets next week which billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bollore hopes will help clear the traffic-clogged arteries of the French capital as well as providing a charge to his nascent battery business.Bubble-shaped vehicles will appear on Paris streets next week which billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bollore hopes will help clear the traffic-clogged arteries of the French capital as well as providing a charge to his nascent battery business.


    5:32 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • While Ford avoided the federally funded restructuring that remade GM and Chrysler, the automaker did get a subsidized $5.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight panel has asked Ford Motor Co. to explain why it pulled a TV commercial critical of the Obama administration's auto bailout.


    5:09 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • Nissan and GE said they signed a two-year research and development agreement to speed infrastructure improvements and spur electric car sales.
    3:49 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • Hyundai Motor Group, the umbrella company that includes Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, plans to launch a Kia-badged small electric vehicle by year end and follow with more EVs starting in 2014.
    3:32 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • A federal rule that would require automakers to double fuel economy of cars and light trucks by 2025 was written 'in secret, outside the scope of law,' Representative Darrell Issa said in a letter announcing a congressional investigation.
    3:14 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • Ford is teaming with a Canadian company to offer a high-performance, bi-fuel version of the F-250 and F-350 Super Duty pickups starting next year.
    2:50 pm on September 30, 2011
     
  • A U.S. rule that would require automakers to double fuel economy of cars and light trucks by 2025 was written "in secret, outside the scope of law," Representative Darrell Issa said in a letter announcing a congressional investigation.
    2:34 pm on September 30, 2011