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Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Panel System

VW Group Invests More Than 10 Billion Euros in Green Technology

The expression, ‘to put your money where your mouth is’ is one that could be used for Volkswagen who’re doing exactly that. Since their announcement of wanting to be the world’s leading automotive manufacturer, Volkswagen have literally been spending billions. Research and development costs for the last year alone were up 15% from previous, making […]

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National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC)

Tata Motors Invests in Long Term UK R&D Focussing on Hybrid & Electric Technology

Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). TMETC will be joined in the NAIC project by its partners, Jaguar Land Rover and

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Volkswagen up! being tested for electromagnetic compatibility

Volkswagen Group Concentrates Billions on Electrification

The Volkswagen Group is the world’s largest private sector R&D investor. That is one of the key findings of the European Commission’s annual ‘Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard’ based on a sample of 2,000 international companies from various sectors of industry taken in 2012. With research and development costs of €9.5 billion (€7.2 billion in 2011),

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