This agreement, which for now includes an order of 10 buses, marks the first time autonomous vehicles will be exported from China.
For the first time, electric vehicles are penciling out cheaper than their gas-powered counterparts.
In the last two years (2011 2012) for the first time the vehicle fleet has contracted by nearly 1 %, owing mainly to the very low sales of new vehicles due to the economic crisis and the increased taxation of vehicle ownership.
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a cabbies' advocacy group, said the regulation "allows, for the first time, the vehicle owner to have some control".
For the first time passenger-vehicle sales in the BRICs, at around 14m, are likely to overtake those in America, which are expected to be the worst since 1992.
"Thankfully only for the sake of that and the intervention of members of the public, who actually challenged these people, we will never know what could have happened". Det Supt Swindle added: "That was the first time a vehicle had been used as an attack of terror and it was in Scotland.
[C4.] New Fuel Standards to Cover Sport Utility Vehicles The Transportation Department will announce a fuel economy standard for sport utility vehicles, vans and pickups on Wednesday that for the first time will cover vehicles above 8,500 pounds, and will differ in how it categorizes vehicles, according to people briefed on the rule.
In 1995, annual vehicle sales outside North America exceeded 3m units for the first time, while 5m vehicles were sold in the US and GM embarked on its first joint venture in China.
After VW admitted for the first time that commercial vehicles were part of the 11m fitted with defeat devices, the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association BVRLAA) said there would "undoubtedly" be some impact on commercial fleets.
