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France-based yeast company Lesaffre has acquired Butalco, a start-up founded in 2007 by Professor Eckhard Boles and Gunter Festerl as a spin-off of Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Butalco is a research company focused on the development of yeast strains for second-generation biofuels and bio-based chemicals. Earlier post.).

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The Dunkirk (France) LNG regasification plant, a turnkey project performed by Techint E&C and SENER as part of the TS LNG consortium, has received its first LNG carrier, thus initiating the installation’s commissioning phase. Its commercial operations are slated to begin in mid-September.

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in France, to -20.0% compared to October 2007. From January to October, the UK (+4.8%) and Spain (+9.4%) saw their markets expand, while France (-1.4%), Italy (-7.0%) and Germany (-26.8%) performed less well than over the same period last year. In October, all major markets faced a double-digit downturn, ranging from -18.5%

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Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007. The eight hydrogen-powered tram-buses Van Hool is manufacturing for Pau (France) should be added to this total. By now, Van Hool has produced 53 hydrogen buses for North America (21) and Europe (32).

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lower than before the crisis in 2007. less than in 2007. Only Austria (+8.8%), France (+10.7%) and Germany (+23.2%) posted growth compared to 2008, with results lifted by scrapping incentives. fewer vehicles were produced in France, 26.4% in France, 17.6% Click to enlarge. lower than in 2008, and 9.5% In total, 14.5

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Other findings of the analysis include: Registration of new cars in the EU increased constantly between 2001 and 2007, peaking at 15.5 The mass of new cars increased slightly in 2011 and is now back to the level seen in 2007 before the economic crisis. million cars, but has fallen continuously since.

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It was the best result since 2007, when the market peaked with 16.02 Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. million registrations. In total, 5.4 to 34.6%.

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France Industry Minister Christian Estrosi confirmed that, following he decision of the French Commercial Court to resume supplies and components from BGI, ConEnergy and Kohl, the French government will invest €10 million (US$12.4 million) to keep coach builder and contract manufacturer Heuliez from going under. Earlier post.)

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Dynamic Fuels is a 50:50 joint venture formed in 2007 between Syntroleum Corporation and Tyson Foods for the production of synthetic fuels from animal fats and greases. KLM has been committed to developing sustainable biofuel since 2007. Air France KLM is also an industry leader in the field of fuel efficiency. Earlier post.)

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is an electrified vehicle that is used to transport DHL Express shipments at the moment in France as well as in Aruba, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. Deutsche Post DHL has set itself a CO 2 -efficiency target that aims to improve its companywide CO 2 -efficiency by 30% by 2020 on the basis of 2007. The Kangoo Z.E.

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In 2011, the GE90 engine experienced its most successful year and accumulated airline and freighter operator commitments for 400 engines, surpassing the 250 engine commitments record from 2007. Snecma of France, Avio SpA of Italy and IHI Corporation of Japan are revenue-sharing participants in the GE90 program.

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million) of funding under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (2007-2013). The 36-month ITAKA project has been granted approximately €10 million (US$13.3

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IBM and GENCI, the high performance computing agency in France, are collaborating to speed up the path to exascale computing ( earlier post )—the ability of a computing system to perform at least one exaflop, or a billion billion calculations, in one second.

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million new cars were registered, the highest number since 2007. The largest number of BEVs were registered in France (more than 26,110 vehicles) and Germany (more than 24,350 vehicles) and the UK (more than 13,580 vehicles). According to the EEA: For 17 EU Member States the average CO 2 emissions were higher than in 2016.

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According to Framework Directive 2007/46/EC on type approval (Framework Directive), non-conform vehicles cannot be sold or registered in the European Union. France is now reportedly blocking registrations of some new Mercedes-Benz cars over the coolant issue.

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The top five ethanol producers in 2012 were the United States, Brazil, China, Canada, and France. Worldwide, biodiesel production grew at an average annual rate of 17% from 2007 through 2012, although the rate of growth slowed considerably. Biofuels for transport—essentially ethanol and biodiesel—account for about 0.8%

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The loan was issued as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, a $25 billion program authorized by Congress as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Approximately 13,000 US consumers have placed a reservation for Nissan LEAF since reservations opened on 20 April.

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Recession of the Morteratsch Glacier, Switzerland (just north of the Italian border) between 1985 and 2007. Italy had previously reached a similar agreement with Austria, and is in talks with France about proposed changes in their shared border. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Air travel within the EU remained the fastest growth area, increasing 48% between 1997 and 2007.

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France will be the first country to participate in the three-year European pilot, with discussions ongoing in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. In partnership with EDF, Toyota has been road-testing a PHV (equipped with a Nickel Metal Hydride battery) in Europe since 2007. Earlier post.).

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Meanwhile, the conclusions from the IPCC’s 2007 report remain entirely valid: The climate is changing due to human activity, and the effects are already being felt around the globe. If anything, more recent data indicate that the IPCC’s 2007 assessment underestimated the degree to which human activity is changing our climate.

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Three Member States (France, Germany and the Netherlands) each anticipate missing two of their four emission ceilings. Still, five Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland and Spain) would still under these circumstances miss their ceilings by significant amounts.

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Micrograph of fermentation fluids from production of Amyris Renewable Diesel (Nov 2007). France-based Total, a major international oil and gas company, and synthetic biology company Amyris Inc., Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.

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Automotive advertisements will promote active mobility, carpool or public transportation from 1 st March 2022, according to a decree published in the Official Journal , Wednesday, December 29, on the same model that messages like "avoid to eat too fatty, too sweet, too salty ”imposed since 2007 in the diet.

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UPS started replacing 747-200s with the more fuel-efficient 747-400s aircraft in 2007. million metric tonnes in 2007. MMT in 2007.customers four-million-square-foot heart of UPS’s global air network. Click to enlarge. CO 2 pounds per ATM. In 2008, Scope 1 and 2 emissions were 13.2 million metric tonnes, compared to 13.3

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Daimler AG selected its plant in Hambach, France as the location of future large-scale series production of the smart fortwo electric drive. The smart brand began testing electric drive systems in 2007 in London with 100 first-generation smart fortwo electric drives. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. US producers had been selling B99 biodiesel into the EU at a considerable discount since early 2007. EU biodiesel production increased 16.6% in 2009 to 9 million tonnes, compared to the prior year, according to figures from the European Biodiesel Board (EBB).

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The report “ Paving the way to electrified road transport – Publicly funded research, development, and demonstration projects on electric and plug-in cars in Europe ”, lists more than 320 projects covering the period 2007-2015. France, Germany and EU have the highest budgets for electric-motor-related public funded R & D projects.

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Valeo’s first generation of alternator-based stop-start systems (StARS) has been in serial production with Citroën since 2004, on smart cars since 2007 and on Mercedes-Benz A- and B-class vehicles as of the first quarter of 2009. Valeo itself took the responsibility for the assembly of the mechatronics unit.

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The challenge is to create a rally raid car and then sorta-kinda follow the route of the old Paris-Dakar rally, the challenging race that you might think has run from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal since its inception in 1977. Renamed Dakar, from 2009 to 2019 the race ran in South America.

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In the context of the EDF-Toyota partnership, European road trials of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles started in France in the autumn of 2007 and were expanded to the UK in 2008. Toyota’s main objective is to further investigate the technology and performance of PHVs.

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The manufacturing roll-out will be via small factories in UK and in Europe including Spain, France, Ireland, Denmark, and Holland. was established in 2006 and launched at the Eden Project ‘Sexy Green Car Show’ in 2007 showing the Axon edition Caterham 7 which achieved 109 mpg US (2.2 Axon Automotive Ltd. Axon Automotive Ltd.

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Setzer has worked at Continental since finishing his studies in engineering management in Germany and France in 1997. In 2007, von Hirschheydt joined Continental as a project manager in the Mergers and Acquisitions department. He has been a member of the Executive Board of Continental AG since August 2009.

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More than 27 GW of new wind power generation capacity came online in 2008, 36% more than in 2007. According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2008 , global electricity generation in 2007 was 19,894.8 Global wind energy capacity grew by 28.8% GW at the end of 2008, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.

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Frances Arnold, Matthew Peters and Peter Meinhold of the California Institute of Technology. Oil and gas major Total has invested an undisclosed amount in the series D round of advanced biofuels company Gevo. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs. Joseph, Missouri at ICM’s St. Joseph, Mo.,

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This would be some 410,000 units off the 2008 total and almost 685,000 units down on 2007. The new car market in the UK continued to decline sharply at the start of 2009, with volumes down by 30.9% to 112,087 units, according to figures from the UK’s SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders). in 2009 to 1.72 million units.

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The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additional countries will become available before the end of 2011 and into 2012. Historical traffic information.

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