Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — London Mayor Ken Livingstone plans to punish the drivers of large cars and trucks by tripling the daily congestion charge they must pay in the center of the city to 25 pounds ($47.43), in a bid to improve air quality.

Sheriff’s Safety Town ground to break Thursday 
Ground will break Thursday for the planned Sheriff’s Safety Town at 8924 Jewella Ave., in south Shreveport.

Wagoner Travels To Meet With Japanese Automakers 
Rick Wagoner, General Motors Chairman and CEO, spent yesterday meeting with the leaders of several Japanese automakers, including Toyota, Suzuki, and Isuzu.

An electric sports car 
Drunk Russians did not design this extremely odd car. Nor did it belong to George Jetson before he rocketed to cartoon fame. This is the Tango, a real $108,000 electric car built in California where else? that’s capable of zero to 60 in 4 seconds. You read that right.

GM To Present A Modified Electric Car 
General Motors Corp., vilified by environmentalists for killing the electric car, is hoping to bring one back. But the new electric won’t be an emissions-free vehicle.

SANTA MONICA, CA - November 14, 2006: The City of Santa Monica will sponsor and host the most comprehensive, technologically advanced exposition of alternative fuel and high MPG vehicles ever held.

Business briefs for Saturday, Nov. 4 
The Park City Resort Center Merchants Association has scheduled its next meeting for Nov. 8 at 10 a.m.

THE MPs’ RESPONSES

Will Prop 87 Save California? 
A new initiative could make the Golden State a green energy leader.

FIA interview with Mosley and Goschel (Part 2) 
Q: What about the teams that don’t have a big car manufacturer as a partner, how do they fit into the picture? Burkhard G schel : They are mostly a group with engines coming from a big car manufacturer, or drivetrains, and in future they might take other technologies such as the engine recovery items.

Hitachi Announces Its Corporate Strategy 
TOKYO—-Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that it has formulated a corporate strategy to promote collaborative creation and profits. With a rigorous focus on a market-oriented approach and profit creation as the basic policy, the aim is to establish a structure that stably generates high profits by the use of key initiatives such as the implementation of fully FIV based management, the creation of

GM to start selling hybrid cars in China 
General Motors will begin selling hybrid cars in China from 2008 making it the latest multinational automotive company to plan the launch of alternative energy vehicles for the fast-growing Chinese market.

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