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Green light for cap and trade in California

Green Cars News

A state-wide limit on the emissions from sources responsible for 80 per cent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions and a price signal aimed at driving long-term investment in cleaner fuels has been endorsed by the California Air Resources Board.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. League table results: Ranking 2008. Country/Average CO2 2008(g/km)/AverageCO2 2007/Rank 2007.

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Manufacturers sign up for scrappage scheme

Green Cars News

. “It is a great opportunity to get motorists into cleaner, safer and more reliable vehicles.&#. The incentive will apply to vehicles such as the Peugeot 207, Europe’s best selling low CO2 car in 2008. Tags: Chrysler Green cars Latest news Peugeot Volkswagen MG vehicle scrappage scheme.

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Mazdas new SKYACTIV gasoline and diesel engines are steps on the road to its Ideal Engine; focus on compression ratio

Green Car Congress

Mazda hosted Green Car Congress at a SKYACTIV Technologies media workshop this week in Vancouver, Canada, at which engineering management explained the development philosophy, approach and results for the initial set of SKYACTIV technologies. This corresponds to a 23% reduction in fuel consumption and, therefore, CO 2 output.).

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False green claims endangering market for green goods

Green Cars News

Many think companies pretend to be green as an excuse to hike their prices, a major new study by consumer champions, Consumer Focus has revealed. Two thirds of consumers say they are not sure how to tell if claims made by companies advertising green products – from household cleaners to green cars and energy – are true.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Indeed stats from the SMMT suggest the underlying new car market is weak with the 67,006 sales in August being some 10,500 behind the total in August 2007 and 15 per cent below the 78,800 averaged between 1999 and 2008. Environmental criticisms have also been shot down. Faye Sunderland.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

The automakers, including Toyota, that are not interested in rushing to market with plug-in cars never tired of suggesting that conventional gasoline-only hybrids are cleaner than plug-ins. UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) To take one example, batteries.

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