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  Ford Signs Kamkorp letter of intent for Th
The Kamkorp group's headquarters are in Singapore, but its flagship company is Surrey-based Frazer-Nash Research, the modern manifestation of a famous name from the days of vintage motoring in the chain-gang style.
Ford noted that under the agreement, Kamkorp will be granted the right to use the "Th!nk" and "city" brand names.
He said Kamkorp Microelectronics was registered in Switzerland, while its parent company Kamkorp Ltd. was based in Britain.
www.electrifyingtimes.com /think_kamkorp.html   (1156 words)

  
 Think Nordic AS - History
In August, however, Ford announced that they were pulling out of Think Nordic, stating that they preferred concentrate on other alternative technologies such as hybrids and fuel cells.
Ford spent the autumn of 2002 looking for new investors, and on February 1st, 2003 Kamkorp Microelectronics was announced as Think Nordic's new owner.
Kamkorp has interests in the field of innovative transportation, and has developed electric drivetrains and microelectronic products.
www.pivco.no /content.php?id=29   (661 words)

  
 EERE News: Ford Agrees to Sell Think Nordic to Kamkorp Microelectronics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ford announced in late August 2002 that it was abandoning its TH!NK brand of battery-powered EVs, focusing instead on developing hybrid electric and fuel-cell vehicles.
As part of the agreement, Kamkorp will also acquire the rights to the "TH!NK" and "city" brand names, developed by Ford.
Kamkorp is the parent company of Frazer-Nash Research Limited, a U.K.-based producer of EVs.
www.eere.energy.gov /news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=6204   (274 words)

  
 Thinkers: Pressemelding fra Think   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kamkorp Microelectronics Inc kan med glede melde at de i dag har avsluttet forhandlingene med Ford Motor Company om en overtagelse av elbilprodusenten Think Nordic AS.
Kamkorp Microelectronics Inc er en del av Kamkorp Group og er basert i Sveits.
Kamkorp, med en rekke elektroniske produkter i porteføljen, spesialiserer seg på utvikling og produksjon av avanserte elektriske- og hybridelektriske drivsystem.
www.thinkers.no /discus/messages/6/101.html?1044273056   (376 words)

  
 Carpages.ca - Ford's TH!NK Electric Car Subsidiary Selling to Singapore-Based Kamkorp
Ford is selling off assets in order to balance the budget, part of a restructuring and cost cutting initiative to help it recover from a $5.4 billion loss in 2001.
Whether or not Kamkorp can turn around the fledgling car company that now suffers from low sales is anyone's guess.
Kamkorp already has an electric vehicle line so taking over TH!NK production should not be a difficult transition.
www.carpages.ca /go/autonews/12232002,fords_thnk_electric_car_subsidiary_selling_to_singaporebased_kamkorp.aspx   (529 words)

  
 Kamkorp
Ford and Kamkorp have signed a binding letter of intent and planned...
Kamkorp Microelectronics Inc. is the new owner of Think Nordic AS, the...
Effictive from January 31 2003, Kamkorp Microelectronics Inc. is the new owner...
stmicro.filomicro.com /kamkorp   (763 words)

  
 Tema Bil - Think endelig opp av grøften? : Økonomisk Rapport   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Selv om Winkler sier at fabrikken i Aurskog skal leve sitt eget liv i fremtiden understreker han at det er snakk om å utnytte ressursene, teknologien og ekspertisen Kamkorp Microelectronics allerede har.
Slik markedet ser ut i dag, tror jeg ikke det er urealistisk å regne med et slag på opp mot 10.000 biler de første årene, men utfordringen blir å selge 10 000 biler til når vi allerede har kommet opp i et totalvolum på 60 000 - 70 000 biler, sier Winkler.
Kamkorp er et holdingselskap som direkte eller ad omveier i tillegg eier Frazer-Nash Ltd. Frazer-Nash er flaggskipet i Kamkorp-gruppen.
www.orapp.no /oversikt/Argang_2003/5997/jobbliv/6370   (2161 words)

  
 dn.no - Betalte 125 mill. for å bli kvitt Think
Ifølge bostyrerapporten fikk Kamkorp minst 4,5 millioner kroner i kontanter fra Think for en rekke registrerte varemerker og patenter.
Kamkorp var inne i en periode som resulterte i konkurs uten at vi hadde klart å få ut ett eneste produkt, sier Fretheim.
Han mener Kamkorps eierskap og måte å styre på resulterte i en forutsigbar konkurs som var iverksatt av de ansatte og ledelsen.
www.dn.no /dnBil/article921056.ece?jgo=r2_l&WT.svl=sistenyheter   (1070 words)

  
 TH!NK - jengangeren
Kamkorp ønsker å produsere et spekter av elektriske biler, både til det europeiske og amerikanske markedet.
Den første utgaven av ble produsert i 1.005 eksemplarer.
Kamkorp implementerer sin teknologi i nye TH!NK city, blant annet gjennom et egenutviklet drivverk som skal føre til en mer effektiv energiutnyttelse.
www.gjengangeren.no /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040828/NYHETER/108280133   (231 words)

  
 Think Nordic AS - History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In August, however, Ford announced that they were pulling out of Think Nordic, stating that they preferred concentrate on other alternative technologies such as hybrids and fuel cells.
Ford spent the autumn of 2002 looking for new investors, and on February 1st, 2003 Kamkorp Microelectronics was announced as Think Nordic's new owner.
Kamkorp has interests in the field of innovative transportation, and has developed electric drivetrains and microelectronic products.
www.think.no /content.php?id=29   (661 words)

  
 Kamkorp completes Electrosource stock purchase - Austin Business Journal:
U.K.-based Kamkorp Ltd. has purchased 875,000 shares of common stock in San Marcos-based Electrosource, Inc. for $875,000.
The purchase is part of a series of transactions that have given Kamkorp control of 56.6 percent of Electrosource stock.
Kamkorp also has the right to purchase an additional 3 million shares.
www.bizjournals.com /austin/stories/1999/08/02/daily4.html   (401 words)

  
 Electrosource Inc. Announces Financing Agreement With Majority Shareholder, Kamkorp Ltd. Not Completed
Under terms of the aforementioned agreement, on or before 30 April, 2001 Kamkorp was to complete its purchase of the remaining 1,773,624 shares of a five-year option granted to Kamkorp in June 1998 to purchase three million (3,000,000) shares of Electrosource Inc., common stock at par value ($1.00).
The new option provided for Kamkorp to exercise its rights to purchase the Company's common stock at a rate of not fewer than three hundred thousand (300,000) shares per month beginning 30 May, 2001 and continuing for ten (10) months through 28 February 2002.
However, Kamkorp did not exercise its option to purchase the remaining 573,624 shares by April 30, 2001.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/05/17/021090.html   (468 words)

  
 Car maker pins hopes on boxy 'minibus' - Aftenposten.no   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kamkorp keen to power up electric car production - 04.02.2003
Bernd Winkler, who took over as managing director of Think Nordic after it was sold by Ford Motor Co last year, claims he and new owner Kamkorp Microelectronics never saw much commercial potential in the personal car market.
Published reports have cast doubt on the credibility and economic capacity of Kamkorp's lone shareholder, the UK-based Indian investor Kamal Siddiqi.
www.aftenposten.no /english/business/article814203.ece   (722 words)

  
 Ev Archive for June 1998
If Kamkorp exercises all the options now available to it, the company will own 66.5 percent of Electrosource.
Clifford Winckless, a director of Kamkorp and Electrosource, said that the company manufacturing the Solar Baby is involved with Kamkorp, but he and an Electrosource official both refused to explicitly say that Kamkorp and Frazer-Nash are linked.
One is the manufacture of an unspecified amount of Electrosource's batteries "in Malaysia and/or another country in Southeast Asia." The other venture is the U.S. manufacture or distribution of Kamkorp >>electric<< >>vehicles<< using Electrosource batteries.
www.crest.org /discussion/ev/199806/msg00621.html   (595 words)

  
 Agderavisen 2.5
Det er mulig at Kamkorp er registrert i
Kamkorp eier også 70% eller mer av Electrosource International, et firma som produserer det ’intelligente’ lettvektsbatteriet E-power.
Et annet selskap Kamkorp har kjøpt opp er den engelske drosjebilprodusenten Metrocab i Staffordshire.
www.agderavisen.com /?vis=art&id=870   (371 words)

  
 Kamkorp keen to power up electric car production
Ford continued to pay Think's roughly 100 staff members, but they did work for the local community while Ford searched for a buyer to take over Think.
Its business development director, Bernd Winkler, claimed in a statement over the weekend that Kamkorp looked forward to take over a company that "Ford has built up over the past four years."
The next few months, he noted, will be largely devoted to strategy sessions.
www.aftenposten.no /english/business/article483965.ece?service=print   (445 words)

  
 Sustainable Business Insider Article
Ford announced in late August 2002 that it was abandoning its TH!NK brand of battery-powered EVs, focusing instead on developing hybrid electric and fuel-cell vehicles.
As part of the agreement, Kamkorp will also acquire the rights to the "TH!NK" and "city" brand names, developed by Ford.
Kamkorp is the parent company of Frazer-Nash Research Limited, a U.K.-based producer of EVs.
www.sustainablebusiness.com /features/feature_template.cfm?ID=889&page=2   (669 words)

  
 Green Car Club Forums - Th!nk City
Kamkorp Microelectronics, producer of the Frazer-Nash electric vehicles,
Kamkorp had signed a binding letter of intent and planned to complete the
Kamkorp Microelectronics was registered in Switzerland, while its parent
www.nesea.org /greencarclub/forums/showthread.php?threadid=147&goto=nextoldest   (1707 words)

  
 Fuel Cell Works Supplemental News Page
Think Nordic developed a plastic-bodied electric two-seater, the City, in the late 1990s, and was bought by Ford, but Ford subsequently pulled the plug on its EV project after deciding to concentrate on hybrids and fuel cell vehicles.
Think was then sold to Swiss company Kamkorp Microelectronics, which also owns English firm Frazer-Nash Research.
Frazer-Nash has developed a shared-ownership, pay-per-use system, based around a pool of cars at locations such as airports and train stations or transport hubs, and Think has developed a four-seater vehicle, the Think Public.
www.fuelcellsworks.com /Supppage1832.html   (187 words)

  
 Business & Human Rights : Kamkorp Microelectronics
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Ford Motor Co. agreed to return about 300 Norwegian-built electric cars to the Nordic country after protests about plans to scrap them, the country's transport minister said Thursday.
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www.business-humanrights.org /Categories/Individualcompanies/K/KamkorpMicroelectronics   (531 words)

  
 Call Sign May 2002 - Page 16 - Customer Services - Metrocab move to Chiswick
Since the Council imposed parking restrictions in Kimberley Road, we have been unable to park outside and our customers were forced to find a meter, so we would have been looking to move anyway.
"It's what is needed to emphasise the fact that this is a Kamkorp company and that Hooper has gone.
They are not a financial investment organisation like the former company, they are research and science based and therefore think long term.
www.dac-callsign.com /02/May02/page16.html   (955 words)

  
 TH!NK reddet i tolvte time.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I dag tidlig kom nærings- og handelsministeren med de første hemlighetsfulle hintene til Stortinget.
Senere i dag ble det kjent at etter omtrent 4 måneders leting og flere interessenter inne i bildet, ble fabrikken endelig solgt til KamKorp.
Salgsjef Anne Valera Disen ved TH!NK kan bekrefte at KamKorp allerede er inne i elbilbransjen.
www.bellona.no /nyheter/27720?printerfriendly=yes   (343 words)

  
 PowerPulse.Net - Story Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: )
That opened the door for the Swiss-British firm Kamkorp to take over, but Kamkorp saw no economy of scale in the market for electric cars for the consumer market.
Kamkorp lately has been focusing on its so-called "Think Public" model, an electric vehicle aimed at functioning in the public car pool market.
A statement from Think Nordic said Kamkorp was "impressed" over the progress made in developing the Think Public, calling it an "innovative and environmentally friendly product" that could become an "exciting part of Norway’s industrial environmental profile."
www.powerpulse.net /news/story.php?storyID=14538   (425 words)

  
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LONDON - Ford Motor Co. (F.N) on Thursday said it had agreed to sell its Think electric vehicle division to global electronics and engineering firm Kamkorp after its move earlier this year to dump the unit due to poor demand.
Ford's abandonment of its electric car programme comes as part of restructuring and cost cutting at the auto giant which is trying to recover from a $5.4 billion loss last year.
Singapore-based KamKorp has a significant stake in electric vehicles and is expected to continue developing electric cars.
www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=18755   (474 words)

  
 Nettavisen: Økonomi
Sveitsiske KamKorp Group, som reddet den norske elbil-produsenten Think Nordic, plasserer nå sin egen mann i sjefsstolen.
september blir Bernd Winkler, fortiden Europa-direktør hos KamKorp Group, ny administrerende direktør i den hardt prøvede bilfabrikken på Aurskog.
- Min hovedoppgave blir å videreføre integreringen mellom Think Nordic og Kamkorp, så vi kan dra nytte av teknologien og løsningene som allerede er tilgjengelige, uttaler Bernd Winkler i en pressemelding.
www.nettavisen.no /okonomi/article129643.ece   (239 words)

  
 EutopiaWeb\Pivco
Their main European aquisitions prior to this was the electric vehicle company Frazer-Nash Research Ltd. in Mytchett, UK, and the taxicab factory Metrocab in Staffordshire.
Their batterypack E-power is said to be 25 % more powerful than its nearest commercial competitor.
We wish Kamkorp the best of luck with its newly obtained factory at Aurskog, Norway, and hope to see many more of the revamped Think City on the streets of our future.
www.eutopia.no /Pivco.htm   (1129 words)

  
 Think (car) - Glasgledius   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The chassis is made of aluminum and plastics.
Think was owned by Ford from 1999 until January 31, 2003, when it was sold to Swiss KamKorp Microelectronics.
Before that, it was an independent company under the Pivco name.
www.glasglow.com /E2/pi/Pivco.html   (84 words)

  
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