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The fight for Australia’s car industry is back in the headlines, with hard news at Toyota and open warfare in the Coalition. It could well have been resolved long ago. Senator Kim Carr writes.
31/01/2012
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ABB is working with Nissan to reuse the automotive company’s LEAF electric car lithium-ion batteries as residential and commercial power sources.
19/01/2012
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she doesn’t want to see the resources boom negatively affect local manufacturing, claiming the car industry bail-outs will safeguard this sector against obscurity.
18/01/2012
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Manufacturing Minister Senator Kim Carr will show their support for Australia’s automotive manufacturing industry this morning by visiting workers at Ford’s Broadmeadows factory.
17/01/2012
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General Motors (GM) and ABB have jointly-developed an energy storage system from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries that could store renewable wind and solar energy and feed it back to the grid.
02/08/2011
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ABB and General Motors have signed a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding to cooperate on a research and development project that will investigate uses for electric vehicle batteries once their useful life in the vehicle is over.
24/09/2010