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Audi To Reintroduce The A2 With e-tron Electric Drive-train
Introduced as a Europe-only model in 1999, the A2 was remarkable for its revolutionary use of weight-saving aluminum and its focus on efficiency; a diesel variant was the first five-door vehicle in Europe to achieve an average mileage of less than 3 litres per 100 km (approximately 80 mpg). But thanks perhaps to its unusual styling and what som
All Cars Electric
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Fiat leads race to slash emissions
According to data from automotive research experts, JATO Dynamics, the Fiat brand and Fiat Group posted Europe’s lowest volume weighted CO2 emissions in 2009.
The While new car’s are slashing emissions across the board, Fiat is leading the way, the latest industry analysis reveals.
According The carmaker logged a CO2 average of just 127.8
Green Cars News
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Toyota to Lease More Than 150 Experimental Li-Ion PHEVs in Europe
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) will lease more than 150 units of its experimental Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) to selected fleet customers across Europe as a next step towards commercialization. Toyota says it will deploy more than 500 new PHVs in global trials—including in Europe, Japan and the US—by 2010.
In partnership with EDF, Toyota has been road-testing a PHV (equipped France will be the first country to participate in the three-year European pilot, with discussions ongoing in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Based on Toyota’s full hybrid technology, the new
Green Car Congress
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
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New Car Registrations in Europe Down 18.3% in February
In February, 968,159 new passenger cars were registered in Europe (the EU27 + EFTA), 18.3% The downturn was more marked in the new EU Member States (-30.3%) than in Western Europe (-17.3%), where the German market pushed aggregate registrations upward.
New car registrations in Europe. less compared to the same month of 2008, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’s Association (ACEA). Source: ACEA.
Green Car Congress
- Friday, March 13, 2009
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EEA Report: Trends in European Transport Are Heading in the Wrong Direction
Despite a reduction in road transport exhaust emissions across Europe,
there Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Market Background Polic Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality
Green Car Congress
- Sunday, April 5, 2009
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Elektromotive Debuts Tool for Monitoring and Invoicing Electricity Drawn from Charging Stations; Three-Phase Fast Charge Prototype with Mennekes Coupler
The single unit is the first of its kind to provide two separate five-pin power sockets, both able to accommodate the all-new Mennekes plug, which is anticipated to become standardized on electric vehicles in Europe.
Tags: Europe Infrastructure Plug-in The Mennekes system. Click to enlarge. UK-based Elektromotive introduced EBConnect—a tool for monitoring and invoicing electricity drawn from vehicle charging stations—at EVS 24.
Green Car Congress
- Friday, May 15, 2009
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Renault-Nissan Alliance and EDF to Test 100 Units of Production EV Models in Paris Region in 2010; New Partnership in Lombardy
Tags: Electric (Battery) Europ The Renault-Nissan Alliance and EDF are planning a large-scale electric vehicle test in the Paris region. For one year from September 2010, consumers, professionals and local government employees will try out 100 electric Renault-Nissan Alliance passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance plans to use the full-scale trial to test the usage and performance of their future electric vehicles.
Green Car Congress
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
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UK DfT Report Finds That While a Majority of the Public Still Thinks Individuals Should Limit Car Use to Benefit Environment, Support for Measures Drops
Tags: Emissions Europe Polic Attitudes towards measures to reduce car emissions. Source: DfT. Click to enlarge. A new UK Department for Transport (DfT) report on public attitudes to climate change in the context of transport finds that a majority of respondents from amongst the general public understand that transport emissions contribute to climate change and that a majority still believe that individuals should try to limit their car use to benefit the environment.
Green Car Congress
- Friday, January 29, 2010
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Neste Oil and St1 to Collaborate in VTTs TransEco Development Program; Focus on Bio-ethanol and Bio-components for Gasoline
Tags: Ethanol Europe Fuel Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The project will focus on developing cost-efficient solutions tailored to Finnish conditions that will enable the 20% bio-component target set for automotive fuel in 2020 as part of national climate goals to be achieved.
Green Car Congress
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Chevrolet Extends LPG Portfolio Throughout Europe
In 2009, Chevrolet will further expand its LPG product range throughout Europe. LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), also known as Autogas in some markets, is widely available: In Europe, more than 10 million LPG-powered vehicles are on the road, including 2.6 There are more than 20,000 LPG fuel stations throughout Europe. Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain will offer LPG-versions in addition to the regular gasoline and diesel range. Chevrolet’s strategy is to offer LPG versions for its entire product line-up.
Green Car Congress
- Monday, March 2, 2009
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Germany Launches H2 Mobility Initiative to Expand Infrastructure for Refueling Hydrogen Vehicles
Noting the importance of a hydrogen infrastructure with sufficient density, the automakers—Daimler, Ford, GM/Opel, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Renault Nissan Alliance, and Toyota—in that LoU strongly supported building up a hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, with Germany as regional starting point, among other global starting points. ( Germany already has a leading position regarding the hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, with initial hydrogen centers having been established in urban agglomerations such as Berlin and Hamburg. Daimler AG and leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Berlin, with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to evaluate and expand the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany to support the series production of fuel cell electric vehicles.
Green Car Congress
- Thursday, September 10, 2009
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UK Publishes Strategy for Low Carbon Transport
Tags: Climate Change Europe Fuel Efficiency Fuels Polic The UK’s Department for Transport has published a strategy designed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the transport sector by around 14% (17.7 million tonnes) by 2020 compared to 2008.
The document, entitled “Low carbon transport: a greener future”, also frames the debate for a longer-term decarbonization
Green Car Congress
- Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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