Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

However, as green cars become more mainstream could it mark the end for exclusive green car brands? It appears that it is no longer viable for companies to designate one of their brands as green because advanced fuel efficient technology is expected across their range.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Keep your eye on Magna Electronics, which is rapidly emerging as one of the key players in the green car sector. Semikron is a privately held company that signed a supply and license agreement with Fuji Electric in November 2008.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 13, 2009

It seems like a great idea in theory - the US Government is backing up its calls for the public to move to green cars by buying some of its own. The GSA has spent $210million in Recovery Act funding - an average of $14,888 per vehicle - on its new fuel efficient line-up. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

However, electric vehicles have already started to penetrate the country with sales of electric motorcycles expected to hit 110,000 units in the year 2008-2009. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Tata China india Tata Nano.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

At the height of the recession in 2008-2009, the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), also known as the "cash for clunkers" program (a similar concept was launched in the UK known as the scrappage scheme) was introduced in the USA to drive new sales and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, a new[.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2013

Prior to the Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing was notorious as one of the world''s most polluted cities: so what would the impact be of introducing plug-in electric vehicles to its taxi fleet? Latest News Green cars Electric cars Hybrid cars'

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture?

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. However, it’s not just the ‘big boys’ of motoring that are having an impact as we enter a new automotive era. Faye Sunderland.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions reduced by nearly 2 per cent during 2008, compared with 2007, the latest statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show. Publishing its final estimates for 2008 today, the Department says that the drop show that the UK is ‘on target’ to meet it’s our Kyoto-set target of [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 16, 2014

The fully electric luxury saloon was first announced in 2008, and as more details have come to light, interest has heightened. Latest News Tesla Motors' Tesla has announced that the first right-hand drive Tesla Model S to come to the UK will arrive on June 7, with deliveries continuing throughout the summer. Capable o[.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 7, 2010

The last year was not the easiest for the car industry, figures out today show that car sales were down 6.4 per cent to for the year compared to 2008, selling just under two million cars in the UK. Tags: Ford Green credentials 2009 Fiesta figures focus registrations Sales scrappage smmt.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2010

This made it the lowest July for demand since 2003, with the exception of the recession-hit 2008. Tags: Green cars Latest news American Petroleum Institute crude oil imports gasoline gasoline demand petrol petrol demand US crude oil production US petrol demand. However, [.].

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric-car technology that most carmakers had dismissed as impractical until recently. The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO. by Reuters.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Several studies have shown that biofuel production can be increased without a significant increase in acreage, but the debate has only been made all the more tempestuous by the 2007-2008 world food price crises. Tags: Biofuels Latest news The Green Piece. There are concerns too about soil erosion and deforestation.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Pike Research has forecast that the number of natural gas vehicles on the road worldwide will grow to 17million vehicles by 2015 – an increase from 9.7million in 2008. Tags: Green cars Latest news natural gas cars natural gas vehicles Pike Research popularity of natural gas vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2019

They were turbulent times over a decade ago

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

As it continues to bounce back from the doldrums of 2008 and early 2009, General Motors (GM) has established a new January sales record in one of the most important emerging automotive markets in the world – China. The company and its joint ventures sold 219,192 vehicles in the country during the month topping the 200,000 [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That’s the verdict after figures were released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) showing that the market share of smaller cars in Europe had risen from about 38.8 per cent in 2008 to 44.9 per cent between January and November, 2009. Both average engine size and power decreased [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, new figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest that engines are only getting larger. According to its figures for 2008, the number of licensed vehicles in [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2011

Did you think that the emergence of green cars means that our reliance on oil is starting to fall? New statistics from the Vital Signs Online report by the Worldwatch Institute suggest this is far from the case. per cent between 2008 and 2009, in part due to the global financial crisis, [.]. Despite falling 1.5

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Green Cars News

MARCH 29, 2010

The trial kicked off in August 2008 when 10 light duty trucks equipped with hybrid drive systems were put to work in the city. The three-year fleet trial of the Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid has reached the halfway stage in the London area. They have since clocked around 164,663miles collectively in eight fleets operated by customers [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2010

As of 2008, Japan had around 600,000 “next generation” vehicles on its roads – including hybrids and electric vehicles, making up [.]. As Japan aims to take its plug-in vehicle sales to 600,000 a year by 2020, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) has outlined the steps that will need to be taken to reach this goal.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 8, 2010

Ever since the Summer Olympics of 2008, the city of Beijing, China, has been on a strong environmental push. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Beijing Beijing China electric car targets electric vehicle targets electric vehicles North China Grid.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 2, 2010

The country is already using E10 on a wide scale and beginning in 2008 it began selling E20 before several E85 flexible fuel vehicles were introduced in the country, even [.]. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news E10 E20 E85 ethanol ethanol fuel ethanol use flexible fuel vehicles Thailand.

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Green Cars News

JULY 12, 2009

times the number it sold in June 2008 at 6,231 units - according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. The hybrid green car leader first became the country’s top seller in May with sales of 10,915 units, more than twice its year-on-year sales of 5,079 units in May 2008. In June, Prius sales were 71.5

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With the news that last month’s new car registrations were at their highest since March 2008, up 12.1 per cent compared with the same month in 2012, Toyota is just one of the carmakers celebrating the glut of sales. The firm reports that it reaped the benefit of a booming market thanks to the re[.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Following on from yesterday’s news about losses and falls in profit for Mitsubishi, Daihatsu and Hino Motors , Honda has now announced a significant loss of more than £1billion for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2008-2009. Over the course of fiscal year 2008, its group net profit has fallen by 77.2

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

The South Korean market has already shown its willingness to embrace green car technologies so it comes as no surprise that GM Daewoo Auto & Technology is considering producing a hybrid vehicle in the country in two years time. The company also sold in Korea and exported more than 1.9million units in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The critical need for government leadership in the emergence of electric vehicles dominated a recent Green Fleet Management discussion in Toronto, hosted by Fleet Challenge Ontario. In an interview published in Maclean’s, a Canadian news magazine, the chairman and CEO of General Electric said, “ Government should be a catalyst for change.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

One of the arguments that critics of green and fuel efficient cars like to make is that small cars simply aren’t as safe as their larger alternatives. However, a new car safety study released this week shows that four of the top scoring new models are super-minis.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

Some good news at last for the battered and bruised automotive industry in North America where the new, downsized General Motors Company emerged from bankruptcy yesterday. The four brands will offer 34 nameplates by 2010 compared to the old GM’s total of 48 in 2008. UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust: 17.5%.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

With oil prices surging in the summer of 2008, the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from oil, coal, gas and cement production appear to have halved according to preliminary estimates by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. per cent in 2008, compared to 3.3 per cent in 2007.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The areas have been designated as “non-attainment” because their 2006-2008 air quality monitoring data shows they did not meet the agency’s health-based standards. So, as the 2008 air quality data is the most recent, the EPA has used this to make its final designations. For more information, check out the area designations for 2006.

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Green car drivers are more responsible about the environment, keep their speed in check to keep fuel consumption low and are therefore less likely to have accidents. As a result, their car insurance premiums should be lower, right? The theory is simple isn’t it?

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

Part of the reason for the success are the introduction of more fuel efficient versions of the Fiesta and Ka which have increased their share of the new car market by two percentage points from January-March compared to the same period in 2008. The Ford Ka range boasts low CO2 output from 112g/km, the equivalent of 67.3mpg.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The eyes of the world may be on developments in electric and hybrid car engineering, but according to Cleantech research firm Pike Research, it is a surge in the number of natural gas vehicles on the road that we should be looking out for. per cent between 2008 and 2015. per cent between 2008 and 2015.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The scrappage scheme has put the car industry on track to meet the EU target of 130g/km of CO2 by 2012. That’s the verdict of Clean Green Cars , which launched an investigation that found that average new car CO2 fell by 5.5 km and Audi, which has cut its emissions by 9.6 per cent to 158.2g/km.

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