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JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. DME engine in 2015. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 21, 2019

per year between 2015 and 2017. A total of 27 countries—including Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom—saw the fuel economy of their fleets stagnate or worsen from 2015 to 2017. Improvements in fuel consumption slowed in advanced economies to an average of just 0.2% L ge /100 km.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015. Hariher Balasubramanian.

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MAY 5, 2015

Construction is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2015, with production expected to start in 2016. The construction of the biorefinery supports Finland’s climate and energy strategy. Total investment is expected to be €40 million (US$44.4 million) of which an investment grant will cover 30%.

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MAY 21, 2013

PowerCell will now test and demonstrate its PowerPac prototype to the global industry and media from its headquarters and research center in Gothenburg, Sweden. Benefits of the PowerPac for the transport sector would be the ability to produce electricity for climate control without running the engines when resting or loading/unloading.

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AUGUST 7, 2015

from 2009 to 2012, confirming renewables’ potential in climate change mitigation, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service. Nearly two thirds of the total savings came from renewable energy development in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. in 2009 to 16.6%

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JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth. —Su et al. Resources. Jansson, F. Schnurer, C.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Within the EU28 the trends vary between countries with decreases of 6% for the UK and Bulgaria and of 3% for Greece and Spain, while increases of 5% in Ireland and Denmark and of 4% in Sweden and Finland occurred. Since 2015, the EU’s CO 2 emissions have stabilized, representing 9.6% Other greenhouse gases keep creeping up.

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MAY 17, 2015

Volvo Car Corporation was founded in Sweden in 1927. The second cools the battery in one of two ways: either passively, via the radiator, or actively through integration with the car’s climate system. Earlier post.) Bottom) Acceleration comparison of the new XC90 T8 PHEV, the older V8-powered XC90, and the Tesla Model S 85. Background.

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