| Seoul shares edge up 0.3 pct autos KEPCO fall |
May 28th, 2013 |
SEOUL | Tue May 28, 2013 2:14am EDT SEOUL May 28 (Reuters) - Seoul shares edged up on Tuesday, in spite of falls for key exporters, thanks to gains by defensive stocks and buying by pension funds. Also weighing on the market was KEPCO, which fell 3.2 percent after suspending operations of two nuclear reactors and extending the shutdown of a third. Activity remained subdued with investors ...
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| Insane obsession Australias auto industry waste |
May 28th, 2013 |
A New Car Plan for a Greener Future , Kevin Rudd observed that half a century had lapsed between the first demonstration of a horseless carriage in South Australia and the debut of the Holden FX in 1948 - the first truly Australian car.Rudd was trying to say that the car industry is worth saving.But anybody familiar with Australian protectionism in the 20th century would have recognised in ...
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| Electric cars slow to gain traction in Germany |
May 28th, 2013 |
BERLIN (AFP) - Germany plans to have one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, but so far that goal seems remote as the nation's motorists have shown little love for the quietly humming vehicles.So far, the number of electric vehicles registered in Germany is just some 7,000.Chancellor Angela Merkel put on a brave face in light of the statistics, speaking Monday at a ...
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| Three injured in wrecks involving 25 cars on I-84 police say |
May 28th, 2013 |
PORTLAND, Ore. – About 25 vehicles were involved in five different crashes that happened nearly at the same time Monday afternoon that closed all westbound lanes ...
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| Kenya Otiende Names Officers Who Used State Cars to Campaign |
May 28th, 2013 |
Nairobi - The Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) has called on the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to take action against State officers who used government vehicles to campaign for the March 4 General Election. The office of the Ombudsman released a report on Monday that states 15 government vehicles, that are known of, were used to woo voters by all four major ...
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| Mapping trucks to return |
May 28th, 2013 |
MARIETTA -An Ohio seismic mapping company will be making its way through Marietta in early July, nearly a year after heavy vibrations created by a Texas seismic mapping company caused area residents to complain of the lack of notice and intrusiveness of the project. The vibrations created last July by vehicles from Tidelands Geological Company (TGC) of Plano, Texas, were likened to an earthquake ...
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| The Continental: Electric Postcards, a Favorite Is Renamed, VW and Renault Nod to History |
May 28th, 2013 |
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Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. A little over a week ago, chief of Mercedes-Benz Vans Volker Mornhinweg wistfully told me about the [...]
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| Famed burlesque performer Sparkly Devil killed in California auto accident |
May 28th, 2013 |
By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News Sarah Klein, the modern burlesque performer known around the world as Sparkly Devil, was killed Sunday and 10 other people were injured when the car she was riding in was involved in an accident with a party bus south of San Francisco, authorities said Monday.Klein, 36, of San Mateo wasn't wearing a seat belt when the car, which was being driven by ...
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| Mercedes-Benz to speed up crash rescue with QR codes |
May 28th, 2013 |
will introduce new Quick Response (QR) code stickers on its vehicles from this year, in a bid to speed up the rescue of car crash victims. To be fitted to each vehicle’s fuel tank flap and opposite side B-pillar, the QR code, a small black and white square symbol that can be read by smartphones and tablets, will provide a rescue sheet for each specific vehicle it is attached to, showing ...
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| Tesla planning compact EV to beat Nissan Leaf |
May 28th, 2013 |
has revealed plans for an affordable compact electric vehicle that is set to go on sale early in the second half of the decade. Fresh from the announcement that the company ...
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