| Honda to invest in engine plant training centers |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
DETROIT (AP) Honda says it will spend $215 million to expand an engine plant and build two training centers in Ohio. The investment will add about 60 jobs in the state, although 50 of them will come from other Honda operations in North America. About $180 million will go to Honda's Anna, Ohio, engine plant to expand work on aluminum die casting and engine parts production. Money also will go a ...
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| Shots fired cars crash in Sydneys west |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
Two men rescued from a western Sydney car crash that was also the scene of a shooting are being questioned by police.Bullets have been recovered from an intersection on a main road at Parramatta where two cars crashed early on Wednesday night, police say.A 22-year-old male pedestrian has also been taken to Westmead Hospital in a serious but stable condition after he was hit by one of the cars.His ...
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| Stephen King endorses UCF grads book on electric cars |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
UCF engineering graduate Chris Sharek's book, 'The Electric Vehicle Revolution,' chronicling his first 26,000 miles owning an electric car, has picked up a big endorsement from famed author Stephen King -- a fellow electric car ...
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| Tesla shares soar on earnings surprise auto maker reports net income of $26.3 million - USATODAY |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
Tesla Motors shares hit the gas on Wednesday in after-hours trading following results that show the company's revenue is growing better than forecasts and profit that blew past ...
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| Toyota recalls 340K pickups for belt problem |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
Toyota side Wednesday that it is voluntarily recalling about 342,000 2004-2011 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab vehicles because of a flaw in the seat belts. Screws that attach the seat belt pre-tensioner to the ...
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| Cars that rent by hour coming to downtown Orlando by mid-October |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
A small fleet of automobiles that can be rented for $8 an hour should be coming to downtown Orlando by mid-October, the state said Wednesday. Hertz 24/7 will place a total of 12 cars at six locations, ranging from the CNL building on Orange Avenue to the Florida Hospital campus ...
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| Toyota recalls 342000 trucks for seat belt issue |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
2009 - 2010 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab Toyota is voluntarily recalling 342,000 compact Tacoma pickups from between 2004 and 2011 due to faulty seat belts.The problem involves the Access Cab version of the Toyota Tacoma, the smaller of the Japanese maker's pickups, produced between 2004 and ...
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| Motoring review Volkswagen Golf GTI |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
If you listen very carefully you'll hear a faint tapping sound as you read this. It's the driver from Volkswagen, here to collect my Golf GTI, tapping on the window. I've barricaded myself in until she goes away and lets me keep it.What is it about the GTI that inspires such feelings? The roads of Britain are littered with small VWs. I have a non-scientifically vetted theory that ...
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| Google Microsoft play catch up to Amazon add load balancing auto-scaling to cloud services |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
Network World - Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service with new auto-scaling features. Both companies are effectively playing catch-up with leading IaaS ...
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| Toyota to recall 370000 trucks to fix seat belts |
Aug 7th, 2013 |
CHICAGO (AFP) - Toyota will recall 370,000 Tacoma pickup trucks in the United States, Canada and Germany to fix a defect with the seat belt, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.Screws within the seat belt assembly "can become loose over time due to repeatedly and forcefully closing the access door," Toyota said in a statement.If the screws get too loose the seat belt pre-tensioner and ...
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