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AUGUST 25, 2016

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. began accepting applications in Japan for custom orders of the all-new NSX hybrid supercar ( earlier post ), which underwent a full redesign for the first time in 26 years since the introduction of the original NSX. Customer delivery will begin on 27 February 2017. Pricing starts at ¥23,700,000 (~US$236,000). Honda is targeting sales of 100 units in the first year.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

We already knew that at some point, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car would get a European-market twin, to be called the 2017 Opel Ampera-e. The Ampera-e project was announced by GM CEO Mary Barra back in February. Now, Opel has confirmed that it will make its public debut at the 2016 Paris Motor Show in late September. The car is.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Using commercially available solar cells and none of the usual rare metals, researchers at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have designed an intrinsically stable and scalable solar water splitting device that is fully based on earth-abundant materials, with a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 14.2%.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Subcompact hatchbacks and sedans may be a minor part of the U.S. market, but they're hugely important in the rest of the world. So the launch of a new generation of Kia Rio during next month's media days at the Paris Motor Show is worthy of note, even if some U.S. drivers and dealers yawn. The new model, like most updated designs these days, has a.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Ballard Power Systems announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, received notification from the US Department of Commerce that its family of fuel cell propulsion systems are now designated as EAR99 (Export Administration Regulations 99) compliant, creating a path for commercial export and deployment in a variety of civilian unmanned vehicle applications.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A major obstacle to widespread adoption of electric cars is that they're not offered for sale everywhere. Collectively, automakers offer a significant number of all-electric models, but just a handful are available in all regions of the country. That means buyers in certain electric-car backwaters may not be able to get one—or at least the.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Several months ago, the allocated supply of "green stickers" that give buyers of new plug-in hybrid cars access to California carpool lanes expired. So you think that a pending bill in the California state legislature to expand that supply would get the support of plug-in electric car advocates. But Plug In America, the longstanding national.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the assumption that crop-based biofuels such as corn ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon-neutral—i.e., that only production-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be tallied when comparing them to fossil fuels. In an open-access paper published in the journal Climatic Change , the researchers conclude that once estimates from the literature for process emissions and displacement effects including land-use change

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AUGUST 25, 2016

The ongoing diesel-emissions scandal undoubtedly did damage to Volkswagen's reputation in the U.S. But how does one quantify the scandal's impact on consumer perception of the VW brand? One possible measure is the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Automobile Report, which charts consumer attitudes toward different automotive.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. has reached an agreement in principle to resolve the claims of VW-branded franchise dealers in the United States relating to TDI vehicles affected by the diesel emissions cheating matter and other matters asserted concerning the value of the franchise. Volkswagen has agreed to make cash payments and provide additional benefits to the dealers to resolve alleged past, current and future claims of losses in franchise value.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

So-called self-driving or autonomous cars still aren't on the market as of today, but you might not know that from a lot of the press coverage. One of the most prominent systems is what electric-car maker Tesla Motors calls Autopilot. In reality, it's a collection of electronic active-safety systems with an enhanced adaptive cruise-control system.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

In Europe, the new Volkswagen Tiguan can now be ordered with two new top engines: the new 2.0 TDI biturbo diesel with 176 KW / 240 PS; and the 2.0 TSI engine with output of 162 kW / 220 PS familiar from the Golf GTI. Both engines come with 4Motion all-wheel drive and a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) as standard. With the new biturbo, a four-cylinder turbodiesel direct-injection engine, Volkswagen offers the most powerful diesel in the segment.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

With the summer travel season more than halfway over and gas prices still quite low, U.S drivers have already logged a record-breaking number of miles traveled. The nation's vehicles collectively logged 1.58 trillion miles in the first six months of this year, according to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) data. That's up 3.3 percent from.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Technip has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with BTG BioLiquids B.V. (BTL) to provide EPC (engineering, procurement and construction services) for its modular pyrolysis plants. The plants will be based on BTL’s Fast Pyrolysis Oil (FPO) technology which converts biomass to oil through a rapid pyrolysis process. The fast pyrolysis technology mixes biomass particles and hot sand in a reactor which transforms the material into pyrolysis oil.

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Today, we preview two new cars debuting at the 2016 Paris Motor Show: the 2017 Opel Ampera-e and Kia Rio. We also look at a vote to increase availability of carpool-lane "green stickers" for California plug-in hybrid buyers. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2017 Opel Ampera-e is a re-badged version of the Chevrolet Bolt EV that will.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

by Rakesh Upadhyay for Oilprice.com. It’s possible that OPEC is crying wolf with hints of an output freeze next month in Algiers; but it’s also possible that they are ramping up production to take the sting out of a freeze. This is a delicate balancing act that the Saudis need to play very carefully. The official chatter is that the OPEC meeting in Algeria from September 26 to 28 could conclude with an agreement to freeze production by the member nations, with even Russia joining forces in a fre

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AUGUST 25, 2016

For animal lovers, choosing a car is not always a simple case of finding one with enough space for the kids – there’s also got to be room for the dog.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Researchers from Zhejiang University; SINOPEC’s Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals; Nanjing Tech University; and Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry have developed an “atom-economic” approach to produce renewable drop-in aviation-range hydrocarbons and aromatics from oleic acid (C 18 H 34 O 2 , a fatty acid that occurs naturally in various animal and vegetable fats and oils) without an added hydrogen donor.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

The Paris Motor Show is one of the biggest dates on the car event calendar and, as always, 2016’s event marks arrival of several significant new cars.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

nuTonomy launched the first public trial of a robo-taxi service. The trial, which will continue on an on-going basis, is being held within Singapore’s one-north business district, where nuTonomy has been conducting daily autonomous vehicle (AV) testing since April. Earlier this month, nuTonomy was selected by the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) as an R&D partner, to support the development of a commercial AV service in Singapore.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Despite some post-Brexit uncertainty, it would appear the British car industry shows no sign of slowing down, with more than one million vehicles roll.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. The work demonstrates the feasibility of using microbes to generate hydrocarbons (i.e., CH 4 in this case) from CO 2 in one enzymatic step using light energy.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

More than half of businesses are concerned about their company car drivers being distracted by in-car technology. Although the increase in safety fea.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

September means only one thing in the world of automotive – it’s time for a plate change! The rolling registration plate system in the UK means number.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Kia has revealed that a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) variant of its Mondeo-rivalling Optima saloon will be in showrooms soon. Featuring a conventional 2.0-li.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Kia's first D-segment estate car, the Optima Sportwagon, will be arriving in the UK in September as the company looks to expand its business offering.

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