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BMW CEO urging tax subsidies for electric vehicles in Germany to bolster sales

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“But last year, we sold just 2,000, including 100 at retail,” Reithofer said on Thursday at the “Handelsblatt” annual conference in Munich. In Europe, the EU Commission wants to reduce CO2 emissions dramatically. BMW will expand its range of hybrid cars and start at the end of 2013 with mass production of electric BMW i3.

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UGA/NCSU team engineers hyperthermophilic bacterium to produce industrial chemical building blocks from CO2 and H2; ARPA-E project

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Herein, we describe a unique temperature-dependent approach that confers on a microorganism (the archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, which grows optimally on carbohydrates at 100°C) the capacity to use carbon dioxide, a reaction that it does not accomplish naturally. Adams (2013). Schut, Gina L. Lipscomb, Angeli L. Menon, Ifeyinwa J.

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Honda Plans to Launch Hydrogen Vehicle Using FCEV Technology

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In addition to developing its fuel cell technology, since 2013, Honda has been collaborating with General Motors to develop fuel cell systems and hydrogen storage technology. The fuel cell technology reduces CO2 emissions achieving clean energy. This hydrogen may be transferred by pipeline, land, and sea and stored as hydrogen.

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Researchers in POWERFUL develop new two-stroke diesel featuring low consumption and low criteria emissions

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Injection pressure is up to 2,000 bar, delivered by the latest common rail generation combined with a high performance HP pump designed to limit the weigh to contribute to the CO2 reduction. A new generation of fast solenoid injector was proposed with improved multiple injection control and limited leakage. Resources. Benajes, J., Novella, R.,

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Ford / AVL study concludes mid-level ethanol blend attractive as a long-term future fuel for use in optimized engines in US

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The team presented a paper on their work at the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit. Ford engineers also presented two other papers evaluating the effects of low to mid-level ethanol blends in spark-ignited engines at the conference. Engines 6(1): 2013, doi: 10.4271/2013-01-1635 Jung, H., Anderson, J. and Stein, R.,

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

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In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. In May, Global Bioenergies presented the first batch of e-benzin to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference. Earlier post.)

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