New Peugeot 2008: all-electric model to be introduced to the range
Green Cars News
JUNE 19, 2019
Peugeot has announced an all-electric e-2008 will join the model line-up alongside petrol and diesel powertrains when it launches in early 2020.
Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?
EV Central
JANUARY 22, 2024
The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. What hasn’t been provided is a timeline for when we’ll first see sodium-ion powered Peugeots, Alfas or Opels.
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France Plugins Take Record 24.4% — Tesla Model Y Bestseller
CleanTechnica EVs
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Traditional combustion-only petrol and diesel powertrains fell under 50% share for the first time. France saw plugin electric vehicles take 24.4% of the auto market in November, with full electrics (BEVs) alone taking 15.2%. Overall auto registrations in November stood at 133,960 units, up some 10% year on year.
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Demand for petrol continues to fall
Green Cars News
AUGUST 21, 2010
This made it the lowest July for demand since 2003, with the exception of the recession-hit 2008. Tags: Green cars Latest news American Petroleum Institute crude oil imports gasoline gasoline demand petrol petrol demand US crude oil production US petrol demand. However, [.].
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Petrol prices hit record high
Green Cars News
APRIL 8, 2010
Petrol prices in the UK have soared past the pre-recession record set back in in July 2008. According to PetrolPrices.com the average cost of fuel in the country now stands at 120 pence per litre for petrol and 120.6 This overtakes the 2008 record when petrol cost 119.7pence a litre- a price [.]. pence for diesel.
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How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?
Blink Charging
JULY 28, 2022
At this point, no one is wondering whether EVs are here to stay, but how soon will we get rid of petrol vehicles? In fact, before burning petrol, most vehicles ran on electric batteries. None of these problems remain today, and most EVs are as powerful as petrol-fueled vehicles. Electric cars are much older. A New Composition.
France Hits Record 23% Plugin EV Share In October
CleanTechnica EVs
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Petrol share was down to a record low of 36.0% France, Europe’s second largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicle share climb to a new record 22.9% in September, almost twice the 11.8% share seen a year ago. from almost 44% a year ago. Diesel share remained below 20% for the third month in a […].
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Diesel new vehicle market share in Europe in February dropped to 39.5%; SUVs still driving growth
Green Car Congress
MARCH 26, 2018
The results mark the highest February volume since 2008, when 1.19 million cars were registered, as well as constituting the highest YTD volume since 2008, with 2.44 Demand for petrol is continuing to grow as diesel declines—petrol registrations increased by 16% in February. respectively.
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Peugeot e-Expert van confirmed for Australia as electric commercial vehicles charge into market
EV Central
JULY 17, 2023
READ MORE: The electric year ahead: every EV coming to Australia in 2023 READ MORE: Complete guide to rebates, discounts and incentives when buying an EV in Australia The e-Partner is priced at $59,990 plus on-road costs, while the most expensive turbo-petrol-powered Partner is $40,878.
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Seven-day test: Living with the 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. Can it really challenge a Tesla Model Y or BYD Atto 3?
EV Central
JANUARY 19, 2024
French cars have frustrated the living hell out of me this past decade, and the Peugeot e-2008 GT is another one to add to my list. As tested, our e-2008 GT small SUV is over $67,000 to drive-away in Queensland. Day 1: Bonjour, mon ami 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. Bonne chance, e-2008. I should want to own one.
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Maruti Suzuki’s hits and misses | Autocar Professional
Baua Electric
JANUARY 28, 2024
It launched in 2008 with a fun-to-drive premise, and while it also had traditional Suzuki strengths like a fuel-efficient engine, and affordable ownership, the lack of rear seat space in a car pricier than the Alto didn’t go down well with customers. Furthermore, the petrol-only powerplant was a weak link at a time when diesel was popular.
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Number of Larger Displacement Vehicles Increasing in UK
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
million in 2008, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. Diesel cars tend to have larger cubic capacity than their equivalent petrol model but are more fuel efficient. Only 22% of households had no car in 2008 compared with as many as 86% in 1951. million in 1999 to 4.0 Big is not always bad.
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Tesla’s Fremont Factory was the most productive auto factory in the U.S. in 2021
Teslarati
JANUARY 24, 2022
Only rivaled by perhaps the 2008 recession, which brought GM and other automakers to their knees, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was a dark spot in an emerging sector. Instead of continuing to develop powertrains powered from gas or petrol, legacy automakers have transitioned to EVs.
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145 Indias HPCL to Produce Own Ethanol for Blending
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2010
While we would be using ethanol to blend with petrol at our own fuel depots, we would also be selling the surplus to other industry players,” a senior executive from HPCL told Business Standard. Subsequently, it stipulated a 10% blend by October 2008. We will begin ethanol production from these sugar mills by year-end.
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Eurotax Glasss: UK Demand for Used Premium Cars and Large SUVs Unaffected by Surging Fuel Prices
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2010
per gallon) for unleaded gasoline in July 2008, and the price is now exceeding this figure. However, unlike in 2008, this time around there have not been any notable repercussions for the upper echelons of the used car market. Current pump prices are at record highs. British motorists paid a then-record 120 pence per liter (US$6.93
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Jaguar Land Rover expanding Ingenium powertrain family; new gasoline engine, TRANSCEND transmission
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
The Ingenium petrol engine features technologies such as an electrohydraulic valvetrain, integrated exhaust manifold and twin scroll turbocharger with ceramic ball bearing technology. Since 2008, Jaguar Land Rover has doubled the number of powertrain engineers and invested in the research of a range of future powertrain solutions.
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LPG on the rise again as petrol tops £1 a litre mark
Green Cars News
JUNE 5, 2009
An increasing number of British motorists are opting out of the volatile petrol car market, according to the latest LPG (liquid petroleum gas) vehicle sales figures from Proton. Proton’s sales figures reflect a growing dissatisfaction amongst motorists towards the over-inflated price of petrol, which is once again on the rise.
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Norway leads the world in moving to EVs
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Norway also lets EV use bus lanes and special parking bays making ownership more beneficial than ICE in the city, Norway plans to outlaw pure Petrol or Diesel vehicles in 2025 – the country with the earliest ICE free deadline and 5 years before the UK’s deadline. 12 Peugeot e-2008 Electric car 2 257 2.04 Cliff edge.
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Americans turn to renewable energy
Green Cars News
AUGUST 24, 2010
According to energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the US used significantly less coal and petrol in 2009 than in 2008. Tags: Green credentials Latest news coal power green credentials Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory petrol power renewable energy US renewable energy use.
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Peugeot charges up in Australia: e-208, e-2008 to spearhead electric vehicle rollout this year
EV Central
JULY 24, 2023
An expansion into electric vehicles is intended to recharge interest in Peugeot, with the brand preparing to launch the Peugeot e-208 and e-2008 in Australia. The brand has just rolled out its first local electric vehicle, the Peugeot e-partner small van and will add the e-2008 small SUV within months. 2023 Peugeot e-2008.
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Tesla Model Y continues to lead auto sales in Norway
Push EVs
APRIL 8, 2023
Petrol-only vehicles saw their lowest share in modern history, taking just 1% of the market. This is likely a temporary blip, the result of a resettling of the market following regulatory changes that came in on January 1st. Overall, HEVs have been on a long term decline since mid 2020. 3 up from 14th to 5th VW ID.
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New PSA 1.2-liter 3-cylinder turbo takes International Engine of Year category award
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2015
The PureTech family of engines is fitted on the Peugeot 108, 208, 308, 2008, 3008 and 5008, the Citroën C1, C3, C3 Picasso, C4, C4 Cactus and C4 Picasso, the DS 3 and DS 4 and also the Dongfeng Peugeot 308S and 408. This prestigious prize for our 3-cylinder Turbo PureTech engine rewards the Group’s engineering expertise in petrol engines.
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Eliminate fuel vehicles in the UK to enlarge the move
Setec Powerr
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Last year the British government set a target to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030. In 2008, the United Kingdom formally promulgated the Climate Change Act, becoming the first country in the world to clarify medium- and long-term emission reduction targets in legal form. Carbon reduction acceleration.
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2024 Peugeot e-2008 review: Is this affordable European electric SUV a true rival to the Tesla Model Y and BYD Atto 3?
EV Central
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
You can, in the genuinely sexy shape of the Peugeot e-2008 — the all-electric version of the brand’s impressive ICE-powered small SUV, having done away with the petrol motor in favour of a small-ish battery and a front-mounted electric motor. What does the Peugeot e-2008 cost and what features do you get?
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52 Tesla owners clock up 10 million miles
Green Cars News
MARCH 29, 2011
Owners of the electric supercar model, the Tesla Roadster have now clocked up over 10 million miles and saved 500,000 gallons of petrol in the process. Running in over 30 countries, the 1500 Roadster models sold since the model was launched in 2008 have saved over 5.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. Silicon valley [.].
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Toyota Joins Clean Energy Partnership to Support Introduction of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles in Europe; Five FCHV-adv Vehicles to Be Introduced in Germany by 2011
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2010
We firmly believe that fuel cell hybrid vehicles will play a major role in reducing emissions and achieving sustainable mobility, alongside petrol and plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Toyota will contribute five of its zero-emissions FCHV-adv hydrogen fuel cell vehicles ( earlier post ) to the program in Germany by 2011.
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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow
Plug In Partners
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
H ere's the Mazda story thanks to Autocar: Mazda plans Volt rival Autocar August 28, 2008 Autocar has learned that Mazda engineers are hard at work trying to develop a rival to the Chevrolet Volt – a car which uses a petrol engine to charge a battery pack which powers the wheels via an electric motor.
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Australian Cam-Drive Gasoline Engine Reaches 39.5% Efficiency in Independent Testing; Potential for Production Engine in China
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2009
The latest version, the X4V2, was designed as a development engine for the aviation industry, and in early 2008 it was independently tested by Orbital Australia. The Directors are pleased to announce that the X4V2 petrol engine achieved a repeatable Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) figure of 212g/kWh (38.6%
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New Zealand Strategic Assessment of Biofuels Calls for Emphasis on Synthetic Diesel from Wood
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2010
The biofuels currently being produced in New Zealand can only be used to supplement conventional petrol and diesel. The decrease in congestion on Auckland’s motorways when the price of a liter of petrol rose above two dollars in 2007 is testament to this flexibility, he said. per liter (US$5.12/gallon gallon US).
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210 Fiat, MINI and smart Beat 130 gCO2/km New Car Average in Europe for First Half of 2009
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
New engines are being introduced—like the innovative MultiAir technology on petrol engines, making them capable of guaranteeing up to 10 percent lower CO 2 emissions, and the new generation of Common Rail MultiJet diesel engines that will make their debut on the Punto Evo and that will be gradually adopted on all of our Group’s cars.
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218 China and India reveal green car focus
Green Cars News
MAY 29, 2009
China is planning to allot half the total transportation energy consumption to electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles that primarily use energy other than petrol by 2020 while India has placed a clear focus on diffusing electric vehicles due to its own environmental issues.
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Annual increases in CO2 slows down
Green Cars News
JUNE 28, 2009
With oil prices surging in the summer of 2008, the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from oil, coal, gas and cement production appear to have halved according to preliminary estimates by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. per cent in 2008, compared to 3.3 per cent in 2007.
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39 Peugeot unveils hybrid scooter concept
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
The Hybrid3 Evolution is a high powered version of the Hybrid3 Compressor that was originally unveiled at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. It is roofless and includes electric motors in each of the two front wheels as well a naturally aspirated engine at the rear.
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42 BMW focuses on efficient dynamics
Green Cars News
JUNE 27, 2009
As part of the event, the company presented the capabilities of its Aerodynamic Test Centre and Aerolab, along with a new 3.0litre petrol unit that combines turbo-charging, direct fuel injection and VALVETRONIC fully variable valve management. km (40mpg) with an average CO2 rating of 158g/km.
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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?
Green Cars News
JULY 3, 2009
Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, without a sensible Federal policy in place that affects the price of petrol in the long term, few customers may pay attention. Will green cars ever be popular there?
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36 Study find biofuels policy doubles CO2 emissions
Green Cars News
APRIL 17, 2009
Conservative estimates show the biofuels obligation, which came into force in April 2008, could have caused 1.3 The new figures come on the week the Government increases the amount of biofuels in our petrol and diesel from 2.5 million tonnes of extra carbon dioxide emissions.
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Groups join forces on fuel efficient engine
Green Cars News
MAY 3, 2009
The development will be carried out in Changan’s petrol engine platform and has the objective of achieving a significant fuel economy benefit using Orbital’s FlexDI technology. In April 2008, Changan displayed a prototype engine developed with Orbital at the Beijing International Motor Show.
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36 Surge in natural gas vehicles predicted
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 19, 2009
It has forecast a growth in natural gas vehicles on the road worldwide to 17million units by 2015 – that’s an increase from the 9.7million reported in 2008. per cent between 2008 and 2015. per cent between 2008 and 2015. per cent between 2008 and 2015 – that translates to 31,347 vehicles, including conversions, sold in 2015.
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36 Increase in vehicle miles travelled
Green Cars News
AUGUST 26, 2009
Traffic volumes had started to decline in November 2007 alongside petrol price rises and experienced dramatic drops in 2008. However, it now appears that with petrol prices back to a more normal level the public is back to using private vehicles to fulfil the majority of their transport needs.
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Scirocco to tackle Green Hell in 24hr race
Green Cars News
MAY 14, 2009
Three Scirocco GT24 cars that use conventional petrol will race alongside two Scirocco GT24-CNG vehicles at the event as the manufacturer aims to add another victory to those clinched in the class for two litre turbo engines in 2007 and 2008.
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Fiat to launch MultiAir system
Green Cars News
JUNE 16, 2009
litre turbocharged petrol engine equipped with the new MultiAir handling system. The MultiAir system, which was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show last year, is seen as a versatile technology that can be applied to all petrol engines. It was launched in 2008 and has already enjoyed 60,000 orders and is sold in 34 countries.
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36 Harmful particles identified in study could be cut with LPG
Green Cars News
JUNE 12, 2009
Added benefits include 17 per cent less carbon dioxide emissions than petrol and 2 per cent less than diesel, and 120 per cent less NOx than petrol and staggering 2,000 per cent less than diesel. He says: “We have always known that Autogas LPG is a viable alternative to petrol and diesel and a much greener fuel.
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36 Super Charge It
Plug In Partners
DECEMBER 14, 2007
The first of Toshiba's groundbreaking SCiB packs will ship in March 2008 to an industrial systems market that Toshiba forecasts being worth 100 billion Yen by 2015. To this end, Toshiba is working on a high-performance version of the SCiB targeted at the automotive industry.
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Toyota fuel cell achieves 431 miles on single fuel tank
Green Cars News
AUGUST 9, 2009
Japanese automaker Toyota may be renowned for its petrol-electric hybrid vehicles, but now it can celebrate a significant achievement with a fuel cell hybrid. Its Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Advanced achieved an estimated range of 431 miles on a single full tank of compressed hydrogen gas.
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