| Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest Indian-American candidates rally around Mike Honda |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
Sign up here . Leading Off: o CA-17: This is pretty awesome. After rolling out endless endorsements from powerful elected officials throughout California and even nationally, here's Rep. Mike ...
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| Chevrolet marks 10th straight quarter of record global sales |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
Chevrolet, General Motors Co.'s largest brand, sold more than 1.18 million vehicles during the first quarter globally, marking the 10th straight quarter of record global sales, the company said Tuesday.GM said part of the growth came from the Cruze compact sedan, which recently hit 2 million global sales since its 2009 launch.The Chevy brand sold 469,000 vehicles in the U.S. in the first ...
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| DSO to play at Carnegie Hall with support from GM |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
The General Motors Foundation and Cadillac said Tuesday they are providing the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with $350,000 to help fund the orchestra's performances next month at Carnegie Hall in New York.It's the first time the orchestra will have performed at Carnegie Hall in 17 years. The symphony is one of five in North America participating in the Spring for Music festival.Cadillac ...
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| Campuses see increase in student cars |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
As people become more affluent in China, more college students are driving cars, prompting many schools to restrict who can bring a car on the grounds in a bid to control traffic conditions. At Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA) in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, the number of cars on campus has doubled in the last two years, according to custodian Tong Youli, the Chinese Business Morning News ...
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| One month left for South Congress food trucks |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
Food trucks will be forced to leave this South Congress Avenue lot by May 25. Time is almost up for several food trailers parked in a popular South Congress Avenue lot to find a new home as developers assigned a final move-out date to make way for a new hotel. The mobile kitchens must clear the site by May 25, KXAN-TV reports. Several trucks, including Hey Cupcake and Mighty Cone, have already ...
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| Indonesia sees small savings from proposal to hike fuel prices for cars |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
JAKARTA, April 16 | Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:09am EDT JAKARTA, April 16 (Reuters) - One proposal Indonesia is considering to make car owners pay more for their petrol would save only 11 percent of the nearly $2 billion the state has budgeted this year for fuel subsidies, the energy minister said Tuesday. The government has been struggling to find a way to reduce a growing hole in the state ...
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| How roads were not built for cars | Carlton Reid |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
cycling . A bunch of cars were parked on the pavement and a bunch more were clogging up the road ahead. "It's not as though roads were even built for cars," I mused, and I'm pretty sure my eyebrows must have been knotted and my lips pursed as I was thinking this.Rewind. I used a couple of words that may need a little explaining. The first is pavement. As my book is about ...
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| California air board asks auto lobbying groups to back off zero-emissions fight |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
Detroit - The head of the California Air Resources Board on Tuesday called for two automotive lobbying groups to rescind their petitions asking the Environmental Protection Agency to reassess California's zero-emissions vehicle requirements.Mary Nichols, in a speech to kick off the Society of Automotive Engineers 2013 World Congress, said the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and ...
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| Aluminium use in mass market autos to surge -Alcoa |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
* Alcoa auto sheet revenues to more than triple by 2015* Aluminium moving from luxury segment to mass market autosBy Eric OnstadLONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - Alcoa expects to more than triple its sales of aluminium sheet to automakers by 2015 as they reduce car weight by substituting it for steel in car bodies, an Alcoa executive ...
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| Cars utilities lift US industrial output in March |
Apr 16th, 2013 |
In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, photo, Repairman Jerry Garcia works on an engine on the assembly line at the Ford Cleveland Engine Plant 1 , in Brook Park, Ohio. The Federal Reserve reports on production from factories, mines and utilities in March, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. In February, robust auto production boosted factory output 0.8 percent. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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