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ITM Power signs hydrogen fuel contract with Honda (UK)

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Honda joins Toyota GB PLC, Hyundai Motor UK Ltd, Commercial Group, Skanska, UlemCo Ltd, Arval UK Ltd, UK Government Car Service, Arcola Energy, Johnson Matthey, Europcar, The Science Museum, JCB, Anglo American, Green Tomato Cars, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and Northern Gas Networks as a fuel customer.

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MotoCzysz Electric Superbike Tackling 2010 Isle of Man TT Zero Race

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In 2009, the event held a clean emissions race, TT Zero , conceived with the support and involvement of numerous departments of the Isle of Man Government as part of the Island’s Freedom to Flourish program. seconds (87.434 mph) in the 2009 clean emissions race. The TT Zero consists of one lap around the 37.73 mile (60.7

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Upcoming Mazda2 will offer new SKYACTIV 1.5-liter diesel

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liter clean diesel engine making use of the company’s next-generation SKYACTIV technology. liter diesel unit in the Mazda Hazumi concept at the Geneva Motor Show in March. clean diesel engine available in models such as the Mazda CX-5, the SKYACTIV-D 1.5 a newly developed 1.5-liter Mazda unveiled the 1.5-liter Earlier post.).

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Valence set to power world’s first zero carbon Grand Prix

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Leading provider of lithium iron batteries for vehicles, Valence Technology, has provided ten of its U-Charge XP energy storage solutions for Imperial College London’s student entry into the TTXGP – the world’s first clean emission motorcycle Grand Prix, on the Isle of Man. It has an impressive range of up to 150 miles.

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U. Mich, Ford team studies effect of ethanol in reducing PM from DISI engines; insights into fueling strategies to reduce soot

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A team from the University of Michigan and Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering group in Dearborn has studied the effects of ethanol on reducing particulate emissions from a direct injection spark ignition (DISI) engine by comparing neat anhydrous ethanol with a baseline fuel of reference grade gasoline (indolene). —Fatouraie et al.

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