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Ansty plant to be UK’s first dedicated electric vehicle manufacturing facility

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The London Taxi Company (LTC) today announced the official opening of the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range -extended electric vehicles. This new, state-of-the-art, vehicle plant in Ansty, Coventry, is where the world’s first purpose-built, mass-market electric taxi will be built. LTC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, has invested more […]

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Bentley First to be Awarded Carbon Trust Water Standard

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Bentley has become the first automotive manufacturer, and among the first ten organisations in the world, to achieve the Carbon Trust Water Standard. This comes after the company reduced its water usage by 35.7 per cent over the previous year at its headquarters in Crewe, to 109,284 m³ in 2012. Achieving this reduction, Bentley’s Environmental

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Nissan's Renewable Energy Powered Factory in Mexico

Nissan’s Green Factories use Waste and Wind to Produce Cars

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With much talk about economical vehicles, often the processes used to manufacture and build them are forgotten.  Not so at Nissan who have set out a global environmental initiative, the Nissan Green Program 2016. In an incredibly wordy sentence, the program, ‘focuses on reducing environmental impacts of corporate activities and pursuing harmony between resource consumption

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