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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

For corporate automobiles that also see private use, benefit-in-kind taxes are calculated as a perk on top of the base salary. Real Driving Emissions Step 2” (RDE2) has likewise introduced new emission rules that require gasoline and diesel driven automobiles to have on-road emissions output effectively match laboratory testing.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

With the Audi MMI connect app, the smartphone can be used to remotely control charging and interior heating or cooling, call up the battery status and display data about past trips. The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV). Some believe that the promotion of hydrogen fuel cells for automobiles is little more than a distraction and delay strategy, seeding in people’s minds the notion that an alternative to gasoline is ‘just around the bend’.