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

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The European car market remained stable during 2018, as 15.6 million vehicles were registered—just 346 more than in 2017— according to JATO Dyanmics. It was the best result since 2007, when the market peaked with 16.02 Globally, Europe was the world’s third-largest car market behind China and the US.

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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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The European car market recorded its best H1 performance of the century, with 8.6 Despite uncertainty in the UK, where the market was down 6.3% on H1 2017, the growth recorded in Germany, France and Spain allowed the overall market to keep growing. of the German market. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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This clearly establishes the leadership of NuScale and the US in the race to bring SMRs to market. 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. 462d2e7525572b918499ca7991022944. -->.

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Six mobility start-ups launching Volkswagen’s incubator program at Transparent Factory

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Volkswagen announced the incubator program at CeBIT 2017 in Hanover earlier this year. There they will be able to develop their ideas for the market with support from Volkswagen experts and financial support from the state capital, Dresden. At the end of 2017 and start of 2018, more teams will move into the factory.

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ACEA study finds cost still strong deterrent for EV uptake across Europe; calls for “realistic” targets recognizing affordability

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The analysis, which compares national data on the market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECVs) with GDP per capita, shows that the market share of ECVs is close to 0% in countries with a GDP below €18,000 (~US$21,000), while it is no more than 0.75% in half of all EU member states. of total EU car sales in 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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In line with COP 21, the Walloon strategy envisages that 50% of its public fleet vehicles, in need of replacement, will run on alternative fuels starting from 1 January 2017, and the percentage will rise to 100% starting from 1 January 2030. The Government of Wallonia also set a new regulation to promote the development of CNG infrastructure.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In Ford marketed it by saying this was a way of never getting a speeding ticket again.”.

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