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Nissan launches new Note Aura in Japan; enhanced e-POWER electrified powertrain

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Nissan launched the all-new Note Aura premium compact car in Japan, with sales planned to start in autumn. The all-new Note Aura comes exclusively with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ), a key part of the company’s electrification strategy under the Nissan NEXT global business transformation plan.

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Maruti Dzire facelift in the works? Test mule triggers speculation

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By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 05 Feb 2024, 10:50 AM Maruti Dzire, which last received a major overhaul back in 2016, is expected to be launched with changes later this year. This will be the first major facelift of India’s best-selling model in this segment since 2016.

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UMD-led study finds China’s SO2 emissions down 75% since 2007, India’s up 50%; India may now be the top SO2 emitter

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Two maps compare total annual sulfur dioxide amounts for India and China during 2005 (left) and 2016 based on Ozone Monitoring Instrument measurements. The researchers’ second data source was the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite, which detects a variety of atmospheric pollutants including sulfur dioxide.

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International study finds air pollution leads to millions of hospital visits for asthma attacks worldwide

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million and 230,000 premature deaths in 2016, respectively. Support for the study was provided by the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team, NASA Aura ACMAP, the Stockholm Environment Institute Low Emissions Development Pathways Initiative, and the Global Environment Research Fund of the Japan Ministry of the Environment.

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Revealed: Jupiter’s Secret Power Source

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They used the 10-meter Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, one of the five largest in the world, to take spectrographic readings of the planet on two nights: 14 April 2016 and 25 January 2017. Wong/University of California, Berkeley/OPAL/ESA/NASA; Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF/UC Berkeley; J. Photos, from top: A.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. GM says it is committed to establishing a harmonized national program to improve fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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