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Nissan, Frost & Sullivan study finds 37% of Southeast Asian consumers open to buying EV

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Along with the release of the study, Nissan announced that the new LEAF will go on sale in seven markets in Asia and Oceania during the next fiscal year: Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. A significant presence of full hybrids in Malaysia and Thailand skews association of EVs with hybrids.

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Shell starts production at Stones in the Gulf of Mexico; deepest offshore oil and gas project

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It is the thirteenth FPSO in Shell’s global deep-water portfolio and produces through subsea infrastructure beneath 9,500 feet (2,900 meters, 1.8 Stones, which is 100% owned and operated by Shell, is the company’s second producing field from the Lower Tertiary geologic frontier in the Gulf of Mexico, following the start-up of Perdido in 2010.

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Proton and Mitsubishi Motors to pursue broad ranging strategic collaboration, including electrics and hybrids

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Proton Holdings Berhad and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) are in “serious discussion” for strategic collaboration to further strengthen the competitiveness of both Proton and MMC in the global marketplace. Provision of MMC’s future technologies such as electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicle technology.

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Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

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Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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Mitsui Engineering and palm oil producer Sime Darby to partner on cellulosic ethanol from palm oil Empty Fruit Bunches; Inbicon technology

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Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding and Malaysia-based Sime Darby Research Sdn. This project will be one of MES’s measures for dealing with global warming as well as a major business. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Inbicon uses a three-stage pretreatment process: mechanical, hydrothermal, and enzymatic treatment of biomass.

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Cumulative worldwide sales of Honda hybrids passes 1 million units

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Toyota hit the 1-million mark for cumulative global hybrid sales at the end of May 2007 ( earlier post ), and has since rocketed past 4 million cumulative units. Honda is also planning to begin production of the Jazz Hybrid in Malaysia in 2012. Earlier post.) Civic Hybrid. Accord Hybrid (North America only). April: 100,000 units.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 2012), Extent of industrial plantations on Southeast Asian peatlands in 2010 with analysis of historical expansion and future projections.

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