TRIB Moves Offices to Washington, DC Area
The Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau has moved its offices from Pacific Grove, California to the Washington, DC metropolitan area effective February 25th, 2011.
FleetMind White Paper Offers Tip and Tools to Ensure Waste Fleet Safety
FleetMind Solutions, Inc., has released a white paper called “Waste Fleet Safety: Tips and Tools to Ensure Safe Driving” that discusses strategies for improving waste fleet safety.
Las Vegas Pete Uses an 'Anvil’ as a Billboard
Most trailers used for product promotion are vans whose broad sides become rolling billboards for truck components of some kind or other. But here we have an end-dump trailer whose message is aimed at construction guys.
Ocean Power Technologies completes first 150 kW PowerBuoy device
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) has completed the first of its new generation utility-scale PowerBuoy device, the PB150. (Earlier post.) The PB150 PowerBuoy, with a peak-rated output of 150 kW, is the largest and most powerful wave power device de…
Kia Motors signs agreement with Vodafone to develop telematics opportunities in Europe
Kia Motors Corp. signed an agreement with Vodafone Global Enterprise, the business within Vodafone which manages the communications needs of its largest multinational customers, to explore business opportunities in telematics services in Europe.
Unde…
i-MiEV Goes on Sale in Costa Rica
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has begun i-MiEV sales in Republic of Costa Rica, mainly to fleet customers such as government affiliates and electric companies. This marks the first country to start sales of i-MiEV in Latin America.
The Costa Ric…
United Continental: U.S.’ ‘new’ airline
The rebranding has begun, and the merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines results in a new brand: United Continental… Whoa, that’s a mouthful, but travelers who use Raleigh-Durham International Airport are going to be speaking it.
China develops 3rd generation of automotive steel; light weight and safety
People’s Daily. The China Iron and Steel Research Institute Group (CISRI) recently held a press event in Beijing highlighting its successful development of a third generation of automotive steel, intended to significantly decrease vehicle weight …
GS Caltex, JX Nippon Oil Energy to set up JV for Li-ion anode materials
Dong-A Ilbo. GS Caltex, South Korea’s second-largest energy company, and Japan-based JX Nippon and Oil Energy (formerly Nippon Oil) will set up a joint venture to produce anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Under the agreement, a plant wil…
Westport awarded C$2.3M by SDTC for natural gas fueling for high-horsepower applications such as mining, rail and marine
Westport Innovations Inc. has secured a funding commitment of C$2.3 million (US$2.35 million) from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to develop Westport HD technology for high-horsepower applications using high-pressure direct injection …