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The quest for energy solutions

Stockhouse 4 hours ago

The essential role of private enterprise After a great deal of hype and hope, the Copenhagen climate summit produced no more than a vague promise to continue to work together. The only real point of consensus was to agree to meet again ...

Federal Signal combines newly acquired businesses

AP News 12 hours ago

Federal Signal says it plans to combine 5 divisions into a new technology group Security systems company Federal Signal said Tuesday that it will combine three recently acquired businesses and two older units into a new division. The combined entity will be ...

Toyota sales in Europe slip 20 percent

AP News 16 hours ago

Toyota sales in Europe slip 20 percent in February; overall car sales rise 3 percent Toyota's sales in Europe slipped 20 percent in February from a year ago after the company launched a massive recall to fix faulty gas pedals, according to ...

Japan Toyota

AP News 19 hours ago

File - In this March 5, 2010 file photo, Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Co., bows during a Toyota's crisis meeting in Toyota city, central Japan, as Yoshimi Inaba, chief executive officer and president of Toyota Motor North America Inc., left, ...

Runaway Prius

AP News yesterday

Bob Waltz, Toyota Motor Sales USA Vice President of Product Quality and Service Support, left, speaks as Toyota Motor Sales USA Vice President of Communications Mike Michels looks on during a news conference held Monday, March 15, 2010 in San Diego. Toyota ...

Chinese automaker BYD plans massive expansion

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Chinese automaker BYD Co. said Monday it had massive expansion plans this year and would consider building a plant in the United States, a day after announcing annual profits had tripled. The company, which has the backing of American billionaire Warren Buffett, ...

BYD posts record Q4 profit on robust sales

Reuters US Online Report Business News 2 days ago

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - BYD Co, the Chinese car and battery maker backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, posted a forecast-beating fourth-quarter result on Sunday, as Beijing's policy initiatives boosted demand in the world's largest car market. Analysts said earnings growth for ...

Toyota Lawsuit

AP News 4 days ago

Karri Wilson of Newport Beach shows her support for Toyota while Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announces the filing of a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., during a news conference Friday, March 12, 2010, at the Orange County District ...

Biographical info about GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz

AP News 5 days ago

Biographical information about GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz NAME: Robert A. "Bob" Lutz AGE: 78. Born Feb. 12, 1932, in Zurich, Switzerland. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in production management, University of California-Berkeley, 1961; master's degree in business administration, University of California-Berkeley, 1962. MILITARY: ...

GM's Lutz says hybrids, electrics are future

AP News 5 days ago

GM's Lutz, retiring after 47 years, says hybrids, electrics are future WARREN, Mich. — General Motors Co. will keep making big trucks and SUVs because U.S. buyers demand them, but a major portion of them will be gas-electric hybrids in the near ...

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