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Green Car Reports, Five Years And 9,800 Articles Later

Green Car Reports

At first one a day, and then more, we wrote articles on fuel efficiency, hybrids, diesel vehicles, and the plug-in electric cars that were then still two years away from the market. Think back to February 2009, when the Tesla Roadster was the sole modern battery-electric.'

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Study Finds Global CO2 Emissions Dropped 1.3% in 2009; Emissions in China and India Rose 9% and 6%

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in 2009, the first decrease recorded this decade, according to an addendum to an earlier study outlining a method for updating global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. In contrast to many other countries, China and India increased their emissions in 2009.

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CAS: China Led World in Patenting and Commercialization of Bioethanol in 2009; US Foremost in Third-Generation Bioethanol Research

Green Car Congress

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) reports that in 2009, China surpassed all other countries in the production of bioethanol patents, emerging as the global leader in the commercialization of bioethanol research.

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JRC: Increased use of renewables results in growing GHG emission savings in the EU; transport contribution only 5%

Green Car Congress

from 2009 to 2012, confirming renewables’ potential in climate change mitigation, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service. Mt CO 2 eq in 2009 to 33.8 in 2009 to 5.9% of total GHG emissions from this sector in 2009 and 3.6% in 2009 to 16.6%

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

Way back in 2009, a 24 Hours of Lemons team tried to get a 2005 Cooper S through the BS Inspection unscathed, earning 1,066 penalty laps in the process. They didn't make this car a real JCW , but still looked cool.

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Volvo Group member SDLG opens facility to produce wheel loaders in Bengaluru – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Present in India since 2009, SDLG has contributed to the Indian construction equipment market with its lineup of wheel loaders, motor graders, and excavators applied in ports, roadways, mining, steel, and cement industries, the company said in a media release.

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Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection

Cars That Think

The open-access quarterly journal from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers publishes peer-reviewed articles on research in IEEE’s fields of interest. The digitization of the 5,000 articles—dating between 1909, when the publication launched, and 2008—took almost eight years to complete.

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