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Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy

The Truth About Cars

& From Automotive News : A top concern was the EPA's proposed limits on vehicle tailpipe pollution for 2027-32 model-year cars and light trucks — a regulatory move that, if finalized, could result in battery-electric vehicles making up two-thirds of new-vehicle sales by 2032, according to the agency's projections.

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Petrobras joins Model Fuels Consortium II

Green Car Congress

MFC II builds on the work of the original Consortium and continues the innovative design work targeting cleaner burning, more efficient transportation engines, power turbines and fuels. —Alipio Ferreira Pinto, Jr., Downstream R&D General Manager at Petrobras.

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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

Most people are turning towards initiatives that build the environment rather than destroy it. Hence, your vehicle does not produce greenhouse gases or pollutants that destroy the atmosphere when you’re driving. The result is you get to play your role in protecting the environment by avoiding pollution when you travel.

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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

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million electric vehicle users by 2025 to stimulate market demand and reduce air pollution. Data show that in 2021, the first car sales in Thailand Toyota, selling 239,000 units; the second place is Suzuki, 167,000 units; the third place is Honda, 88,700 units; the fourth is Mitsubishi, 47,000 units; the fifth is Mazda, 35,000 units.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

Green Car Congress

Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. However, real fuels, with their hundreds of components, are too complex to simulate directly.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Mazda / 13 / 158. Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. VW Passat). Peugeot-Citroen / 1 / 139. Renault / 3 / 143. Toyota / 4 / 147. GM / 5 / 153.

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China’s SAIC Motor named winner of 10th LA Auto Show Design Challenge; Mobiliant

Green Car Congress

SAIC Motor beat out eight world-renowned auto design studios for the honor with an innovative public transit solution aimed at alleviating urban problems such as air pollution and traffic congestion. The judges of the 10 th annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge named SAIC Motor the winner of the 2013 competition.

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