The Automotive Management Institute (AMI) is accepting applications for the following six scholarships to be awarded this year: the Emil Stanley Merit Award, the BodyShop Business Magazine Scholarship, the Gale Westerlund/Richard Cossette Memorial Scholarship, the Tom B. Babcox Memorial Scholarship, the Automotive Video Inc. (AVI) Educational Scholarship and the Zurich “High Octane” Scholarship.
Three scholarships help pay expenses for recipients to attend the 2010 International Autobody Congress & Exposition (NACE) in Las Vegas, Oct. 10-13. These scholarships are the Emil Stanley Merit Award, the BodyShop Business Magazine Scholarship and the Gale Westerlund/Richard Cossette Memorial Scholarship.
The $1,000 Emil Stanley Merit Award is awarded annually to an individual who works in an Automotive Service Association (ASA) Collision Division member-business in good standing and who displays a desire to improve their business skills through management education. Continue reading →
People charge the batteries of their mobile phones and MP3 players at home and then use the gadgets throughout the day. How well, then, would the same concept apply to cars? Sophisticated firms are working to find out.
In Korea, Hyundai Mobis is spearheading the push to develop such cars, dubbed plug-in hybrid vehicles, together with its sister corporations at Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.
“By 2012, we plan to invest a total of 100 billion won in developing components for hybrid vehicles. We are also striving to increase the number of related research staff members from the current 60 to 200,’’ Hyundai Mobis Senior Executive Vice President Kim Soon-hwa said. Continue reading →
LONDON — A second BMW advert has been banned for claims about the low levels of carbon dioxide emissions produced by its cars, Britain’s advertising watchdog said on Wednesday.
The Advertising Standards Agency said the German luxury car maker’s newspaper ad claiming that the BMW Concept Active electric car as “100 percent joy, zero percent emissions”, was likely to mislead.
It said the advert breached their codes on substantiation, truthfulness and environmental claims and should not reappear in its current form. Continue reading →
