PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Carlos Tavares wants the company’s upscale Citroen DS product line to become a stand-alone brand that can compete with Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
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How PSA lured Carlos Tavares
Carlos Tavares made it clear last summer that he was no longer satisfied to remain Carlos Ghosn’s No. 2 at Renault. His candor got him fired but it also got him what he wanted: the chance to be CEO of a major global automaker.
150 supercars gather at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome
The Supercar Driver club held their annual “Secret Meet” at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in the UK this past weekend, opening the new season for the British supercar owners’ in style.
HyFive for hydrogen power
A new Pan-European scheme will cost £31 million (€38.4 million) and aims to make hydrogen fuel cells a viable alternative to both fossil fuel-powered cars and plug-in electric vehicles in a number of the continent’s leading cities.
VYCON delivers flywheel kinetic wayside energy storage substation (WESS) for LA Metro
VYCON, a designer and manufacturer of flywheel kinetic energy storage systems, has completed delivery of its kinetic energy storage system at the Los Angeles Metro Red Line Westlake/MacArthur Park station.
The equipment will be used in Metro’s Wayside Energy Storage Substation-WESS Project, which is funded by a grant of $4.4 million provided by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) Program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. VYCON’s Contract has a value of $3.6 million for the supply of the main core equipment and the commissioning of the entire system.
