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Renault 2010 Environment Workshop, Part 1: Combustion Engine Technology and Product Plans

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Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. Scheduled for launch in 2012, it is expected to account for 85% of Renault’s gasoline engine sales in 2015. These modular engines will have a cubic capacity of between 0.9

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SEAT aims to reduce its environmental footprint by 50% by 2025

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By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. Energy and water consumption have been reduced by 21.7% In addition, the company has generated 41.4% less waste and 16.2%

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Interim assessment finds Volkswagen’s “Think Blue. Factory.” program reduced resource consumption by average 24.3% since 2011

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The Volkswagen foundry in Hanover uses waste heat from the cooling system in various applications such as heating offices in winter or to heat up drinking water. Volkswagen Group recently took the top spot again as the world’s most sustainable automaker in RobecoSAM AG’s 2015 annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

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Chevrolet one of 16 organizations across US recognized by EPA for Climate Action; only automaker

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

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Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “

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DOE issues RFI on advanced thermal insulation for cold/cryogenic compressed gas on-board fuel storage

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For automotive applications, the insulation must be stable over the life of the vehicle and under conditions (vibration, acceleration, shock, environmental exposure (salt, water, dirt, dust), etc.) The workshop will be held on 29 October 2015, in Dallas, Texas. experienced by the vehicles.

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ICCT study concludes no technical barriers to use of higher blends of ethanol

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BPC is convening a diverse RFS advisory group to discuss opportunities for reform, hosting public workshops to solicit broad input, and ultimately publishing viable policy options based, in part, on the advisory group’s deliberations. Phase separation of water and ethanol from gasoline.

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