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Clean and green transportation gets a new look and feel as GEM, a Chrysler LLC company, introduces the next generation of clean, gas-free and emission-free, battery electric vehicles.

The vehicle’s innovative, groundbreaking design, with its striking pod-like shape and sleek lines, reflects the environmentally friendly nature that has been the hallmark of GEM since its founding 10 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Tesla Motors Inc. plans to build a $250 million facility to manufacture a zero-emission luxury sedan in the heart of Silicon Valley. The nation’s leading all-electric car company will also relocate its corporate headquarters and research and development efforts to a consolidated campus in San Jose, Calif.

Tesla President and CEO Ze’ev Drori announced that construction on the 89-acre site would begin in the summer of 2009. When fully operational, the facility will employ approximately 1,000 workers. Read the rest of this entry »

C8 Laviolette LM85 is the road version of Spyker’s GT2 LeMans car. The Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85 will be built as a limited edition of 24 units maximum, and will be available in both left and right hand drive. Production of the LM85 commences this quarter. Read the rest of this entry »

India’s giant Tata Motors sought new sites Wednesday to make the world’s cheapest car after suspending work on its plant in eastern India in the face of huge farmer and political protests.

A Tata statement announcing the suspension late Tuesday fell short of declaring the company was pulling out of Marxist-ruled West Bengal for good.

But it would be “highly optimistic to think of a return to normalcy at the Singur site in the next few days — nothing has happened in the past few months,” a senior company official told AFP.

Tata was “leaving the window of opportunity open” for peace to be restored at the nearly complete plant but “we have no choice” except to look for other locations, said the official, who asked for anonymity.

“We have a business to run, deadlines to meet,” he said.

via AFP

……..At the opening Spyker chief Victor Muller said the dramatic Spyker-Zagato C12 concept - on display in Broughton’s new high-end outlet - would be making it into production. Due in 2010, only 24 examples of the hypercar will be built - that’s not even one per dealer. But the UK is almost certain to get one.