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Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

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Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research for Industry, Construction and Commerce, recommends buying diesel vehicles only if they have been approved in accordance with Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d. At the end of 2016 around 3.1 million passenger vehicles with gasoline engines and 1.3

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Best Car To Buy 2017, LA Auto Show preview, VW criminal charges: Today's Car News

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Today, we name our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2017, preview green cars for the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show, and see why Volkswagen may have a difficult time settling pending criminal charges. See how Vanderbilt University researchers made a working battery from scrap metal and household chemicals.

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Clemson, SC purchases 10 Proterra electric buses

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million riders annually in three Upstate South Carolina counties, including the cities of Clemson and Seneca and the towns of Central and Pendleton as well as four universities, the fare-free CATbus system will have the largest zero-emission fleet in the Carolinas. CATbus purchased the Proterra Catalyst E2 buses in part with $3.9

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YASA Motors named UK’s Best Enterprise in the Lloyds TSB/Telegraph Enterprise Awards

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YASA Motors, the Oxford University spinout developing high-torque, high power density Yokeless And Segmented Armature (YASA) motors ( earlier post ), has been named the UK’s Best Enterprise in the Lloyds TSB/Telegraph Enterprise Awards and won £50,000 (US$79,000). A hat-tip to David!

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Austin study teases out changes in behavior in wake of suspension of Uber and Lyft service

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Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Columbia University surveyed more than 1,200 people in Austin, Texas, to examine how their habits changed after Uber and Lyft pulled drivers out of the city due to a local law change. —a 68% drop.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university.

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Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

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million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. million shares of an almost $3 billion settlement in 2016 between the U.S. Xavier University, two light-duty chargers, one fast charger, $47,200. Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, three fast chargers, $138,000.