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U.S. hybrid car producer, Fisker Automotive, will operate again in the Delaware General Motors factory that was closed to build fuel-efficient vehicles, electric cars.

Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, said at local time, reopening the plant was part of the government’s determination to start producing Obama’s fuel-efficient vehicles in the world’s largest economy. ”Thanks to a real commitment from government, loans from the Department of Energy, U.S. corporations creativity and resilience of large government partners, such as Delaware, we’re on our way to help the U.S. auto industry to return to the top position in world markets,” said Biden.

Fisker Automotive said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Liquidation Motors Co.., (MLC), formerly known as General Motors Corp., To purchase the Wilmington factory worth U.S. $ 18 million. Investors that the company owners said it would spend additional funds worth U.S. $ 175 million to update and retool the factory for three years.

The funds came from a conditional loan worth U.S. $ 528.7 million from the Department of Energy provided to the company in September. This loan is part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle program Manufakture loans worth U.S. $ 25 billion, which was prepared by the Congress in 2007. Meanwhile, the remaining funding requirement of U.S. $ 169 million is a loan from Fisker which will be spent in a place that company in California and Michigan.

Fisker will use the plant in Wilmington to work on projects that produce electric vehicles Nina’s family oriented. The plan, Fisker start production in late 2012 and will be full-capacity vehicles 75000-100000 units in 2014. This new hybrid vehicle will be drawn by an electric motor-powered lithium-ion batteries. When the battery is discharged, the car will be powered by a generator driven gasoline engine. The car would be sold for about U.S. $ 39,900 after deduction of state tax credits

Approximately 50% purchase of cell phones last year to quarter 1 2009 was conducted by installments. Trend was expected to last until the end of the year. According to the Operations Director of Global Teleshop Andreas Thamrin, on the sidelines of the launch of the design of new outlets, in Jakarta, “The installments of about 50% of the total purchases made by credit card. I think the future trend could be even greater.Especially if the crisis is more severe than the situation in 2008. ”

Global Teleshop is a corporate brand from PT Cipta Perkasa Multi Enterprises (CMUP) which is engaged in distribution and marketing of cellular products in Indonesia. CMUP is a distributor of Motorola and Authorized Dealer Group, namely Telkom Telkomsel and Telkom Flexi. Last year, the Global Teleshop reported sales of up to Rp700-Rp800 billion and targeted to rise this year to Rp900 billion-Rp1 trillion. “Based on our observations, the financial crisis in 2008 showed strange symptoms. It was the demand among dealers dropped but instead consistent retail demand,” he said.

Australian airline, Qantas, on Friday (26 / 6) states to cancel the purchase of 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners worth U.S. $ 3 billion. Qantas reason given is because the company had to adjust the various expenditures in accordance with current global economic situation. In a statement, Qantas said it has decided to cancel the purchase of 15 units of Boeing 787-9s (Dreamliner), which is scheduled to begin shipping in 2014 until 2015 the next. Thus Qantas orders Boeing 787-9s to now only 50 units tersia from 65 units in the initial order.

President Director of Qantas, Alan Joyce said that the cancellation was not due to and influenced by the decline of Boeing’s first test flight this week’s series because of the design. Boeing Parties to the present have been recorded five times a postponement inaugural test flight Boeing 787-9s, the largest aircraft in the world, citing the plane improvement of the structure. ”Qantas has ordered Boeing 787 state-9s in December 2005. But after that, operating airlines in the world was changed dramatically according to the conditions in the field,” said Alan. Earlier, Qantas and Boeing signed an agreement to delay delivery of the aircraft for four years.But not inevitable that the present order is canceled by Qantas. ”The resignation earlier order was sad, but we remained on our commitment to using the right aircraft for the planned expansion in the future,” said Alan. Qantas belt tightening can also be seen from the plan flung the airline employee layoffs Kangaroo country of origin until 1750 people in the future.