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Parts Unlimited has promoted experienced former dealership level sales manager Greg Stilwell as its Sales Team Development and Training Manager . Greg has been with LeMans for over five years and most recently was Dual Regional Sales Manager for the Central Region .
The name American Bantam is to make a powersports industry comeback . The Pennsylvania business was the designer and builder of the original U . S . Army Jeep in 1940 . The new American Bantam Car Corp . will introduce what it is describing as a new class of vehicle - " Street-Legal Off Road " - designed for ATV / SxS buyers . CEO and founder Charlie Paglee describes American Bantam as " a heritage mobility brand bringing cutting edge plug-in hybrid-electric powertrain technology to propel the off-road industry into the 21st century ."
PSB reports that the Gold Wing Road Riders Association is to close after 45 years . At its peak , GWRRA had some 80,000 members in 53 countries , with over 800 active chapters managed by 4,000 volunteer leaders . Headquartered in Phoenix , Arizona , the GWRRA has called itself " the world ' s largest single-marque social organization for owners of Honda Gold Wing / Valkyrie motorcycles ," and it adopted the motto " Friends for Fun , Safety and Knowledge ."
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' 4,000 filling stations globally by 2030 '
industrial technology and the company ' s manufacturing technology chief . " We are getting hydrogenbased technologies out of the laboratory and into industrial practice - onto the roads and into factories ." Bosch ' s flagship ' Industry 4.0 ' lead plant in Homberg , Germany , already demonstrates how hydrogen can be used in factories , with its own renewable electricity powered electrolyser to extract hydrogen from water . It ' s then used for fuel cell vehicle refueling and for stationary fuel cells , with energy released as and when it ' s needed . " We are continuously improving our carbon footprint . As our Industry 4.0 lead plant , Homburg plays a pioneering role in our global manufacturing network . We are systematically reducing our local energy consumption and generating as much of that energy as possible from renewables . We have to tweak both these variables ," Najork says . Bosch has also formed a partnership with Maximotor Hydrogen for technology to be used in compressing hydrogen , storage tanks and pipelines , also due to be trialed at Homberg . By 2030 the companies hope to use the same technology in 4,000 hydrogen filling stations worldwide , accounting for one in three such stations globally . " Industry is paving the way to a climate-neutral future ," said Najork . " Bosch industrial technology will
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Rolf Najork , Bosch Manufacturing Technology Chief : " We are getting hydrogen-based technologies out of the laboratory and into industrial practice - onto the roads and into factories ."
used to fill vehicles ' hydrogen tanks . Bosch also intends to invest up to € 500m into volume production of electrolyser components , bringing
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' industry paving the way '
hydrogen-powered motorcycle engines , with the Kawasaki H2 supercharged four-cylinder providing an initial platform . Supercharging or turbocharging is essential for hydrogen combustion engines , as is direct injection into the cylinders , and Kawasaki is working on both elements . Kawasaki ' s aim for a hydrogen infrastructure means the company recently gained approval to build a massive hydrogen-carrying ship , able to hold 160,000 m3 of liquefied hydrogen . The company is already Japan ' s leading hydrogen supplier , and this year inked a deal with Airbus to work on a hydrogenfueled ecosystem .
Hydrogen compressor
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