Peugeot’s new 108 – which goes on sale this July – will be priced from £8245 – only £25 more than the entry-level version of the outgoing 107. The 108 is the sister car to the Toyota Aygo and Citroen C1 which will also launch this summer.
Mitsubishi’s Europen profit drought ends
Mitsubishi’s European operations ended a three-year profit drought because of foreign exchange windfalls, demand for its Outlander plug-in hybrid and the closure of its Dutch plant.
Mitsubishi Europe reported an operating profit of 37 billion yen (€261 million) in the fiscal year ended March 31 compared with a 7 billion yen loss in fiscal 2012, making Europe the company’s second most profitable global region after Asia.
Volvo Trucks showing CNG and DME powered daycabs at ACT Expo 2014
Volvo Trucks will showcase a compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered Volvo VNL daycab and a prototype dimethyl ether (DME)-powered VNL daycab at next week’s Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, North America’s largest alternative fuel and clean vehicle technology conference.
Cambridge study of alternative London bus technologies finds lean-burn CNG greater climate impact than diesel
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a comprehensive environmental cost–benefit analysis of near-term alternative bus technologies. T
he study considered emissions of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), CO, NOx, PM2.5, sulfur dioxide (SO2), and ammonia (NH3), as well as the lifecycle climate impact of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHG) on a CO2-equivalent basis.
experts say; UAW can still unionize VW’s U.S. plant after failure
The UAW union still has several options to unionize Volkswagen Group’s Tennessee car plant in the United States, labor law experts said, after it failed to win enough support and last week dropped its challenge to the election results.
