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Audi and Krajete developing direct air capture technologies for CO2

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The recovered CO 2 is then available in a highly concentrated form as a raw material for permanent storage or for a wide range of industrial applications. r, Hungary. In other words, more CO 2 can be removed from the ambient air in a short period of time. The filtered air is released back into the environment after the adsorption step.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. In Kecskemét (Hungary), a second plant under construction will be CO 2 -neutral.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Country/Average CO2 2008(g/km)/AverageCO2 2007/Rank 2007. Hungary / 153 / 155 / 10. Suburu Imprezza).

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