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Small-displacement two-stroke H2 engine could address performance and emissions cost-effectively for recreational market; potential for Asian motor vehicle fleet

Green Car Congress

It, or a scaled-up version, could also provide a solution for the Asian motor vehicle fleet, in which two-stroke engine vehicles constitute a major share—and contribute significantly to air pollution. Initially, they used an off-the-shelf, synthetic-blend, TCW3-rated two-stroke engine oil. Lubrication proved to be an issue.

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Lishen and ZAP in strategic alliance; funding for several thousand EV conversions in US

Green Car Congress

Z-Smart is being incorporated into these fleet vehicles to improve performance, safety and efficiency of the converted vehicles and to provide convenient mobile communication to the driver on the charge levels and recharging status.

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

Plugs and Cars

In other developed countries – in Europe and Asia, for example – clean, electric public transit is the principal means of transportation. But the commuters in poorer nations usually travel in a haze of pollution created by petroleum-powered trains and buses. There is, however, an alternative path: Electricity.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Green Car Congress

The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. At the same time, this would also reduce air pollutants such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen oxides.

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Electric Car Watch #6: FORD's weak 2030 EV plan

Plug In India

Ford is desperately hanging on to their ICE vehicle business and even in 2030 they want to sell millions of pollution vehicles. ICE vehicles will attract carbon taxes in many countries due to the air pollution they cause. But in reality they want the world to keep using OIL. Of course they won't. Just like KODAK and NOKIA.

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Are biofuels the answer for green cars? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

It predicts 35 per cent growth in the US; 30 per cent growth in Brazil; and substantial increases in areas including the Asia-Pacific region, France, Germany and Argentina. Biofuels are generally accepted to improve net carbon output, even when local air pollution from the production of biodiesel is taken into account.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs.

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