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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

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Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. Green Vehicles. Earth-Friendly Auto Insurance.

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CCM: demand for ternary Li-ion batteries in China to more than double to 10 GWh in 2016 from 4.4GWh in 2015 due to subsidy fraud and response

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The firm forecasts an immediate boom in demand for ternary Li-ion batteries—mainly used to power alternative energy vehicles—from 4.4GWh in 2015 to 10 GWh in 2016. China started giving state aid to alternative energy vehicles (AEV) makers in 2009 to promote the development of green vehicles to help tackle air pollution.

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Renesas Electronics and TSMC announce 28nm MCU collaboration for next-generation green and autonomous vehicles

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Renesas Electronics Corporation and TSMC are collaborating on 28nm (nanometer) embedded flash (eFlash) process technology for manufacturing microcontrollers (MCUs) targeted at next-generation green and autonomous vehicles. Renesas and TSMC have collaborated closely on MCUs with on-chip flash memory since the 90nm technology generation.

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J.D. Power sees hybrid and EV share below 10% of US market through 2016 despite rising fuel prices

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Growth of alternative powertrain vehicles sales will be limited by consumer concerns about costs as well as functionality, according to the newly-released J.D. Power and Associates 2011 US Green Automotive Study. Battery electric vehicles: 26%. By the end of 2016, J.D. However, J.D. Power and Associates.

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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Tax Credit Expires This Month: Will It Be Renewed?

Green Car Reports

Financial and other incentives are widely viewed as a good way to kickstart the adoption of new green vehicles, largely to compensate for their higher prices against conventional gasoline cars. But just as Toyota is building up to next fall''s launch of its 2016 Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle in the U.S.

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Tax Credit For Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles Expires As Congress Adjourns

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Tax incentives have proven to be an important way to encourage adoption of new green vehicles, offsetting some of the typically-higher purchase costs compared to conventional costs. Yet just as Toyota prepares to launch its 2016 Mirai fuel-cell car, a tax credit for hydrogen vehicles has expired due to inaction by Congress.

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Ricardo applying sound augmentation technology for NVH in sports cars, EVs and PHEVs

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Ricardo engineers are a paper on RAS-R (“System for Realistic Augmentation of Sporty Engine Sound Quality”) at the conference “The NVH complexity challenge: achieving appealing ‘greenvehicles,” to be hosted in Graz, Austria, on 22-24 June 2016.

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