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Honda Spills Beans on Future Product, Shows Civic Hybrid

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While we’re sure they’ve still a few things up their sleeve (after all, the phrase “We can’t comment on future product” is a PR mainstay), the news does give us a good idea as to what’s in store – plus a shot of the 2025 Civic Hybrid. That’s just over 20 percent.

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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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For comparison: This is equivalent to the output of a 700-megawatt offshore wind farm with coupled electrolyzers. The CO 2 released during the hydrogen production is captured and can be stored or possibly used as a raw material by industry in the future. The plant is expected to produce 54,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year.

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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Given the nature of wet waste resources that requires dedicated waste management practices to collect, store, treat, and dispose of the waste, shifting the waste resources from going through conventional waste management practices to utilization as feedstocks for energy production may represent an avoided cost of waste management and disposal.

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Volkswagen’s WeShare electric car-charing expands in Europe, fleet to increase to 8,400 EVs

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In comparison with the sector as a whole, this figure is very high and shows that WeShare is highly relevant for people’s urban mobility, commented Reth. As a cooperation partner, WeShare can use the charging stations for its car sharing fleet on an exclusive basis outside the opening hours of the stores.

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VW Commercial Vehicles unveils e-BULLI; electric T1

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As the basis for the future e-BULLI the team chose a T1 Samba Bus produced in Hannover in 1966, which prior to its conversion spent half a century on the roads of California. 3 and future ID.BUZZ, the high-voltage battery is housed centrally in the vehicle floor. As in the new ID.3

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VW to stage world premiere of ID. Buzz on 9 Mar; two versions to be sold in Europe

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By way of comparison, the wheelbase of the new ID. The model line will in future offer charging solutions such as the ‘Plug & Charge’ function. This technology opens up a whole new spectrum of possibilities, such as the ability to store excess power from a home’s solar panels in the ID. in) of the ID. Buzz and ID. cubic yards).

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Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

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We are suggesting a new approach where we stitch together biological and non-biological electrochemical engineering to create a new method to store energy. Natural photosynthesis already offers an example for storing solar energy at a huge scale, and turning it into biofuels in a closed carbon loop.