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SEAT and Champion Motors create XPLORA to focus on connected cars and smart mobility in Israel

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the brand’s importer in Israel, have reached an agreement to create XPLORA, a transversal team of specialists focused on technological innovation projects aimed at the connected car and smart mobility services. These first steps will be used to analyse the feasibility of pilot testing on a larger scale in Israel and at European level.

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Wallbox becomes a member of Green Energy Association of Israel

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Israel is undergoing an energy revolution, with the country having pledged to allow only electric passenger cars to be sold by 2030. Our objective is to help Israel achieve zero emissions by 2050 and we want to be on the frontlines with GEA-IL to create real change across the country. Revolution.

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FCA presents Fiat 500 M15 (methanol); to be sold in Israel

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The product will be marketed in Israel by MCA—the official Israeli importer of FCA Group. Earlier this year, Israel’s Ministry of Transport issued an M15 standard , making Israel the first country in the world to issue a national standard for methanol flex fuel vehicles that also comply with the EU’s Euro 6 regulation.

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Israel, Fiat Chrysler, Iveco and Magneti Marelli to partner on automotive natural gas technologies

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Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), through the Israel Fuel Choices Initiative (IFCI), signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Iveco (a Brand of CNH Industrial) and Magneti Marelli (FCA Group) for co-operation in the development of natural-gas-based automotive technologies.

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Study finds heavy upwind air pollution contributed to the catastrophic 2013 Sichuan Flood

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Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators in Israel and China have found that heavy human-caused air pollution over the Sichuan Basin just upwind contributed to the catastrophic 2013 Sichuan Flood that killed up to 200 people with hundreds more missing. Click to enlarge.

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Navigant Research forecasts EV charger global market to grow to $3.8B by 2020; 27.1% CAGR from 2013

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Navigant Research forecasts that the global EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment, i.e., charger) market will grow from $713 million in 2013 to $3.8 Battery swap stations account for less than 1% of total installations and, like DC EVSE, are central to only a few countries, including China, Denmark, and Israel. Click to enlarge.

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One-step process for production of renewable diesel blendstock from soybean oil

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in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ormat Industries Ltd. Moti Herskowitz, Miron V. 2013.04.044.

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