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Honda targets new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency with 8,500-mile diesel drive across Europe

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Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. On 1 June, two members of Honda’s European Research & Development (R&D) team will set out on the journey from Aalst, Belgium.

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H2ME has 100 fuel cell vehicles on the road in Germany, France and UK

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In total, more than 1,400 FCEVs will be deployed as part of the H2ME project throughout the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The aim is to increase the number of FCEVs operating on Europe’s roads to build on the strong networks of hydrogen refuelling stations created by H2ME and other initiatives across the EU.

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Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype

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Soon enough, the fire was extinguished, and the ship was towed to a port on the coast of the Netherlands, as reported by CleanTechnica. Part of the fear surrounding EV battery fires has been how challenging they are to extinguish once they get started. For cars running on gasoline or diesel fuel, the fire rate was 0.08

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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RSS 2022 : 21 June–1 July 2022, New York City ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, Bangkok IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, Mexico City CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Azores, Portugal Enjoy today’s videos! Strandbeest Evolution 2021 provides an update on the evolutionary development.

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New launch of MG5 in the electric car market

EV Report

This new electric vehicle was launched in October 2019 in two electric countries of Europe – Norway and Netherlands. At the first half of 2020, MG ZS EV is expected to target Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium markets. Recently smaller urban cars are available in the market such as Honda E and Mini Electric.

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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Honda is working on high-capacity batteries capable of 15-minute charging with a 240 km range for release in 2022 models. ZEVs require significantly less time and money spent on maintenance because they have only about 20 moving parts – about 1,800 fewer moving parts than traditional ICE vehicles.

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40,000 pre-built charging piles in North America, the status quo of charging piles in Europe, America and Japan

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Part of the $billion investment commitment , Up to… Will be built in the United States and Canada 4 Ten thousand charging stations , In order to increase the popularity of electric vehicles. General motors at 10 month 26 Announced Wednesday , As 7.5 at present , The EU has about 70? Ten thousand fast charging piles and 7.4