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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

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million vehicles were registered—just 346 more than in 2017— according to JATO Dyanmics. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. Globally, Europe was the world’s third-largest car market behind China and the US. The European car market remained stable during 2018, as 15.6 million registrations. market share.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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NuScale’s DCA was completed in December 2016 and accepted by the NRC in March 2017. NuScale has signed agreements with entities in the US, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan. This is what DOE’s SMR Program was created to do, and our success is credited to strong bipartisan support from Congress.

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Petrobras awards Technip/DOF Subsea JV ~$3.5bn in contracts for four new pipelay support vessels; ultra-deep water capabilities

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Vard Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, will be in charge of the design and construction of the four PLSVs. The hulls of these vessels will be built at Vard Tulcea in Romania and outfitted at Vard Søviknes in Norway. Delivery of the PLSVs is scheduled for 2016-2017.

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, IVECO and ENGIE collaborating to promote natural gas in Europe starting from Belgium

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in gas, electricity and energy services.

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Euro car market has best H1 of century; diesels down 17%; AFVs up 31% for 5.4% of total; SUVs booming

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on H1 2017, the growth recorded in Germany, France and Spain allowed the overall market to keep growing. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. Despite uncertainty in the UK, where the market was down 6.3% The diesel decline continued during the first six months of 2018, as registrations were down by 17%.

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ICCT study finds noise and climate impacts of a new generation of supersonic aircraft could be significant

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Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Global sonic boom incidence. Source: The ICCT. The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6

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