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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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MIT Associate Professor Jessika Trancik, corresponding author of the paper published in Nature Climate , noted that this would more than meet near-term US climate targets for personal vehicle travel. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country. Needell, James McNerney, Michael T.

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Ford to invest $1.8B in R&D in China

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SYNC, is Ford’s in-car free connectivity system offering hands-free control of phones, entertainment, climate control and navigation. This will be quickly followed with the 2016 introduction of SYNC 3. Ford announced that there will be more than 1 million SYNC-equipped vehicles on the road in China by the end of 2015. Earlier post.)

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Study finds fleet switch from PFI to GDI engines will result in net reduction in global warming

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A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines. —Saliba et al. 6b06509.

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