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JATO: new car average CO2 emissions highest in Europe since 2014; slow EV uptake insufficient to counter fewer diesels and more SUVs

Green Car Congress

g/km higher than in 2018, the delta was lower than the difference between the 2017 and 2018 results—where the growth was 2.4 g/km, almost half that produced by diesel and petrol vehicles. Despite this positive change, their emission levels were still higher than the averages they recorded in 2016 and 2017. g/km last year.

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European auto industry proposes further 20% cut in passenger car CO2 by 2030 from 2021; conditional on EV uptake and infrastructure; no ZEV mandate

Green Car Congress

The latest ACEA data show that in the first half of 2017, electrically-chargeable vehicles made up 1.2% The latest generation of diesel vehicles is a very effective lever to achieve climate goals in the near future, because they emit 15-20% less CO 2 than equivalent petrol vehicles. —ACEA President, Dieter Zetsche.

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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum

Baua Electric

Back in 2017, he announced then that Volvo would stop further development on diesels at a time when nearly half of all new cars sold in Europe had diesel engines. Petrol-burning engines are soon to see the same fate. Next year, the EU is tightening its restrictions with a 15% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2025 for both cars and vans.

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Lithium Battery Recycling is happening in 2022 | Attero in India | Redwood Materials

Plug In India

Redwood Materials was founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel in 2017 with the mission of creating a circular supply chain. Because we are sick and tired of listening to petrol heads who complain about batteries. Have you ever heard of a similar effort to take the exhaust smoke from pollution cars and then try to create petrol?

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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Get Electric Vehicle

1 liter of Petrol emits 2.3 Over 2 million electric cars were sold in 2017. Existing gasoline-powered vehicles may be converted to a natural gas vehicle or they can be used as bi-fuel (petrol and CNG) vehicle. Carbon dioxide emission of Autogas is around 15% less than that of petrol. #9 Let’s see a quick statistic.

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

Wallbox

To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. So how did this largely rural Scandinavian country become the global leader in EV adoption?

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Fourth, like all fossil fuels hydrogen is highly volatile, far more so than petrol.