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Study Finds That Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs

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The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

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’“ This is one of the reason Honda reintroduced the Insight, they wanted the Insight to be a unique body style rather than a powertrain option on a Civic. Prius), 2) Be priced competitively (the Insight is a first step in the right direction, 3) Be capable enough to do the things that customers need their vehicles to do.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? Honda believes it will be a help in climbing stairs or industrial operations that require a lot of squatting. Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. The cells make up the remainder.

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Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

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After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. This meant that a total of 26,205 hybrid units were sold - some three per cent of all new vehicles, the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008. Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

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In 2008 the company released a test fleet of 450 Mini-E vehicles and is getting ready to announce its second phase. Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars. IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass.,

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J.,

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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

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The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. billion people, auto density is still low, but it is growing fast. Private sector.