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Continental presents action plan for immediately reducing lead in electronic components in cars

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Continental has submitted a plan of action to the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection with which the company intends immediately to reduce the lead content in some of its electronic components to legally prescribed maximum quantities in accordance with the End of Life Vehicles Directive.

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EIA: China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels has grown rapidly since 2000; >500K bpd in 2016

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Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Following enactment of provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that were interpreted as reducing or eliminating legal defenses available to MTBE blenders, its use was soon phased out in the United States. Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017.

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NHTSA calculates US motor vehicle crashes in 2010 cost $871B in economic loss and societal harm

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Factors contributing to the price tag include productivity losses, property damage, medical and rehabilitation costs, congestion costs, legal and court costs, emergency services, insurance administration costs, and the costs to employers, among others. The economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in the US is the equivalent of 1.9% of the $14.96

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Engineered E. coli produce styrene from glucose

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The conversion of endogenously synthesized l-phenylalanine to styrene was achieved by the co-expression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase and trans-cinnamate decarboxylase. Between 1960 and 2006, estimated production ranged from a low of 1,740 million pounds in 1960 to a high of 11,897 million pounds in 2000. In 2006, eight.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I From there, he turned to an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)-to-electric conversion. “I I had a Mini Moke from British Motor Works.

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Hanging out with NEDRA

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The purple box in the center of the cycle is a Zilla2K (2000 amp DC controller). You can see a bit more about Otmar on YouTube at: [link] Here is John Wayland, creator of the fastest EV street-legal car in the world, the White Zombie. The KillaCycle ended up posting a run on Friday of 152mph in the quarter mile.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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