Archive for the ‘Powertrain’ category
Magna Powertrain breaks ground on new facility in Tianjin
AutoChina.org (Tianjin October 26)- Magna Powertrain, an operating unit of Magna International Inc., has held a ground-breaking ceremony of the construction of its new manufacturing facility here in Tianjin on October 24, joined by Tianjin government officials as well as executives from Volkswagen AG and Magna International China. The new facility will be approximately 13,500 square [...]
China-made hybrid powertrain saves fuel by 40 percent at most
TIANJIN – China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC) has launched in early September a newly-developed hybrid powertrain which can achieve a fuel-saving ratio of 40 percent at most, reported Auto Weekly. The CATARC hybrid powertrain, which takes eight years to develop, is said to have made breakthroughs in cost, power density and reliability. When [...]
Tianjin-FAW-Toyota engine plant reaches 2 million mark
Tianjin-FAW-Toyota Engine Co., Ltd. (TFTE), an engine-manufacturing joint venture of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and China FAW Group Corporation (FAW), recently reached cumulative production of two million engines, said TMC on September 1. In 1996, TMC, through a joint venture with Tianjin Automobile Industry (Group) Co., Ltd., established Tianjin Toyota Motor Engine Co., Ltd. (TTME), [...]
FAW-Volkswagen’s powertrain remanufacturing project was formally put into operation
On Aug. 27, Volkswagen-FAW Engine (Dalian) Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and China FAW Group, officially announced the start of production of the powertrain remanufacturing project. About 100 million CNY (15.6 million US$) was invested for phase one of the remanufacturing project, which had a capacity of 5,000 engines per year. The [...]
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