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Honda targets new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency with 8,500-mile diesel drive across Europe

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Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. The car which attempts the record must be a standard model in every respect, with no modifications to give an advantage.

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NXP and partners launch European test drive to showcase the future of Communicating Cars

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and industry partners Siemens, Honda, and Cohda Wireless have launched a “ Communicating Cars ” test drive along the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Corridor across Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Honda: supplying the cars for the tour. NXP Semiconductors N.V. Cohda Wireless: supplying the application software.

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Tesla delivered ~5,500 Model S worldwide in Q3, more than 1,000 to European customers; non-GAAP profit narrows and GAAP loss widens from Q2

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Tesla prefers to present non-GAAP financials excluding the effect of lease accounting by adding back all deferred revenues and related costs for Model S deliveries, as well as standard GAAP financials. Q3 results. By March 2014, Tesla plans that more than half of Germany should be covered, with complete coverage by mid-2014.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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“There was a fuss in Britain when road tax increased for the most-polluting cars, but we are lax by European standards – we need a more sophisticated carrot and stick approach to encouraging people to drive lighter cars if we want to do better in next year’s league table.&#. Austria / 158 / 163 / 16. Honda / 6 / 154.

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Partners launch $51M hydrogen fuel cell vehicle and infrastructure project in Europe

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Locations are being sought for three new hydrogen refueling stations in London, one in Aarhus and in Odense (Denmark) and one in Innsbruck (Austria). These stations will share internationally agreed fuel and re-fueling standards. —Prof Roger Putnam CBE, Non-Executive Chairman of ITM Power.

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Can-Am Spyder First Drive: Embracing The Third Wheel

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While Can-Am offers the smaller, cheaper, and lighter Ryker with powertrains sized at 600 and 900 cubic centimeters, the Spyder F3 and RT come with a liquid-cooled, 1,330cc Advanced Combustion Efficiency (ACE) inline-triple manufactured in Austria by the BRP-owned Rotax. But I’d rather be sitting on the Can-Am in most cases.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

EV Adoption

And EV straggler Honda shed a bit more light on its upcoming EVs built on GM’s Ultium battery and powertrain platform. Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner told reporters one of the electric SUVs will be from the Honda brand, while the other will be an Acura. Honda will offer more details later this year, he said.

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