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Stellantis slams Italy for not backing EVs, putting Fiat at risk

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Fiat’s new 2024 500e (source: Stellantis) EVs drivers in Italy are a rare breed. Italy has some of the oldest, most polluting cars in Europe, and is lagging way behind other European countries in EV adoption, with an incentive program that has been practically nonexistent. billion euros since 2016 under the scheme for around 2.1

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AECOM to develop hydrogen-powered railway in Central Italy

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AECOM and its partners are working on four projects to support sustainable economic recovery in the region, which was badly affected by earthquakes in 2009 and 2016 and has suffered from decades of depopulation. The first project is the upgrade of the 300-km Apennine line, which will be one of Italy’s first hydrogen railways.

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T&E: Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands lead deployments of zero-emission buses in Europe

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Italy, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and France, which buy 70% of the urban buses sold in Europe, lag behind. For example, the Dutch government specified in 2016 that all newly-procured buses must be zero-emission from 2025, and from 2030, all buses in use must be zero-emissions.

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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”. In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). Uber’s CEO tells us they ‘do the right thing, period.’

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Eni and RenOils to boost collection of used cooking oil for biofuel production

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Eni and RenOils, the Italian national vegetable and animal oils and fats Consortium established in 2016 to ensure the correct management of the collection, transport, storage, processing and reuse of vegetable oils and animal fats, are promoting the recovery of used cooking oils (UCO) for biofuel production.

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Cross-border car2go rentals up 80% in Q1 2017 to 33,000 journeys

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In addition, German customers are increasingly using the car2go service in European cities in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria. The segment of transnational rentals is growing dynamically and getting a bigger part of the total number of car2go journeys. In 2016, car2go increased its rentals by 40% to 22 million.

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Total new car sales in Europe drop 2% in July; SUV sales up 12.5%

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While Spain, Italy and the UK all posted modest growth in July, this could not fully compensate for the declines seen in France and Germany. This slowdown is partly due to July 2016 having two fewer working days compared to July 2015. to 108,769 units and sales in Italy were up 2.6% in July 2016. Spain grew 4.4%

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