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Disneyland will remake its Autopia around EVs in 2026

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Disneyland will replace gasoline vehicles at its Autopia ride with EVs in 2026, the Los Angeles Times confirmed this week. Disneyland will phase out the gasoline engines in its Autopia vehicles “within the next 30 months,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Since 2016, the attraction has been sponsored by Honda.

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Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky ‘Autopia’ ride, and quick

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Until 2016, Autopia vehicles were noisy, polluting two-stroke engines. But the ride was sponsored by Chevron from 1998-2012, and that company is pretty dedicated to poisoning small children anyway, so it was apt. 2016 was also notably after EVs had proven themselves in the automotive realm.

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Disneyland announces Autopia will be all-electric within the next 30 months (Updated)

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And late Thursday, Disney spokesperson Jessica Good told the LA Times that electrification “means fully electric — it does not mean hybrid or any other version of a gasoline combustion engine,” and that the park “will no longer be using the current engines within the next 30 months.”

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. Gasoline components, including toluene, propylbenzene, ethyl benzene and xylene.

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Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

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The study published in ES&T was funded by Chevron Energy Technology Company. Tighter sulfur specifications on gasoline and marine diesel fuel account for about 10%?20% Kolb (2012) Analysis of Energy Use and CO 2 Emissions in the US Refining Sector, With Projections for 2025. In 2010, US crude imports comprised: About 1.8

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