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Nissan reports significant net loss

Green Cars News

Nissan has followed Honda and several other Japanese carmakers by announcing significant losses in its financial results for the fiscal year ending in 2008. In Europe sales amassed 530,000 units - down 16.7%; while in Japan, sales dropped to 612,000 units, down 15.1%. The global sales forecast for fiscal 2009 is 3.08 million units.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

In 2008, Valero Energy CEO Bill Kless had said that using corn to produce ethanol will make food so expensive in poor countries that it will cause more misery than global warming. They acquired seven existing facilities and one under construction which together represented 780 million gallons/year of capacity. Earlier post.).

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. Europe has an unprecedented 8 out of our Top 10 spots. Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag).

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