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Tata Motors launches $10,000 electric hatch; deliveries of Tiago.ev start in January

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Lakh (US$10,000) (All India – Ex-showroom), for the first 10,000 customers (of which 2000 will be reserved for the current owners of Nexon EV and Tigor EV). We are confident that this move will help more and more customers embrace EVs as their preferred mode for personal mobility.

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PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

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Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Noise emissions [Person-Pascal/second]. The user also selects the country where the vehicles are to be used—because this differentiates the electricity mix for electric cars—as well as the year, between 2000 and 2050, when the cars will be registered.

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Avantium Building YXY Pilot Plant for Furanics Biofuels and Materials

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Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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Honda signs E-KIZUNA project agreement with City of Saitama for EV, PHEV and electric scooter testing; new household gas cogen unit with more efficient EXlink engine

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Through the E-KIZUNA Project, Honda aims to reduce household CO 2 emissions to half of year 2000 levels by 2015. Building on its predecessors with a completely new design, MCHP1.0K2 serves as the core unit in the household cogeneration system ECOWILL, burning natural or liquid propane gas to generate electricity and heat water simultaneously.

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Going with the talent flow

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Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. He decided to take personal action by joining Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Once the benefits are understood, it will get support.”

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ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

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Vehicle penetration 2000 to 2040. ExxonMobil expects that by 2030, China will have surpassed the United States as the country with the largest number of personal vehicles, even though China’s vehicles per capita will be about one-third the level of the United States at that time. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. The Concorde went on to serve various destinations, including some in the United States, flying at supersonic speeds only over water. Everett Collection/Alamy.