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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Green Car Congress

Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.

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UAI and EFC call EPA MOVES2014 emissions model treatment of ethanol “seriously flawed”; call for peer review

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The new elements in MOVES2014 pertaining to ethanol reflect the findings of a study conducted for EPA by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), a non-profit organization supported by the American Petroleum Institute and a group of auto manufacturers (Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen).

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Road Test: 2021 Kia Niro PHEV EX Premium

Clean Fleet Report

liter four-cylinder gasoline engine mated to an 8.9 The redesigned front has a new diamond-pattern grille and fascia that house chevron-shaped LED daytime running lights and fog lamps. In the rear the horizontal LED taillights have a bold design, with a faux skid plate and more chevron-shaped back-up lights. kW electric motor.

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

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MFC members included Toyota, GE Energy, VW, Suzuki, Petrobras and Conoco. Gasoline components, including toluene, propylbenzene, ethyl benzene and xylene. The MFC is ending its work in December. Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN). Additive components such as ETBE.

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DOE releases final report from 6-year national fuel cell vehicle demo; key targets met, with twice the efficiency of today’s gasoline vehicles

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NREL also found that these early fuel cell vehicles achieved more than twice the efficiency of today’s gasoline vehicles. Daimler and BP; GM and Shell; Chevron, UTC Power and Hyundai-Kia; and Ford and BP.) The results indicated a 431-mile on-road range was possible in southern California using Toyota’s FCHV-adv fuel cell vehicle.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

Toyota, the automaker arguably best positioned and most experienced in the ways of electric drive, has scarcely hidden its intention to go slow on plug-ins while touting small incremental mileage gains on the gasoline-only Prius and the green glitz of an optional solar roof. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is reminiscent of the early 1900’s, when steam, electric, diesel, biomass, and gasoline power options competed on a level playing field for consumers’ attention. In the end, gasoline won out because it was the cheapest and delivered the most energy per unit, but it took 20 years to sort out. The bottleneck is infrastructure.