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Yamaha Joins Global Move to Battery Swaps for E-bikes

Cars That Think

Today, noisy, polluting, two-stroke gasoline engines are still ubiquitous across Asia,” says Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Research Analyst for Mobility Ecosystems at Guidehouse Insights “Converting those to electric power will go a long way toward helping countries reach their greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets.

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Bosch overview of global diesel markets; optimistic about US, China

Green Car Congress

India is the world’s leading producer of three-wheel tractors and other three-wheel vehicles. By comparison, in the European Union, the average number of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants is approximately 500. Their place is taken by vehicles that run on pure ethanol or on a mixture of ethanol and gasoline (FlexFuel).

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Pinnacle 4-stroke opposed-piston SI engine shows fuel economy improvements of between 30-60% at light loads, 12-30% at medium loads over conventional

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Comparison of ISFC (@42.9 Pinnacle has signed a licensing and joint development agreement with a major, as yet unnamed, Asian vehicle OEM, with lower power products targeted for two- and three-wheel applications in the developing country markets expected to be available in the first quarter of 2013. Source: Pinnacle.

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