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EPA proposes slight ease in 2018 renewable fuel volumes compared to 2017; gearing up for future reset

Green Car Congress

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule setting the minimum amount of renewable fuels that must be supplied to the market in calendar year 2018 under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program. The biomass-based diesel standard for 2019 would be maintained at the 2018 levels of 2.1 Proposed 2018. Final 2017.

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Pike forecasts 26.4% CAGR for electric-drive buses to 2018; hybrid, battery-electric and fuel cell

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from 2012 to 2018. The Latin American market will be driven largely by uptake in Brazil, but other countries will also spur adoption, notably Uruguay which recently indicated it. grants to offset the price premium. million kWh by 2018, a CAGR of 42%. kWh in 2012 to over 1 million kWh in 2018, a 57% CAGR.

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Study finds lead from leaded gasoline persists in London air despite ‘90s ban

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The researchers took eighteen samples of airborne particles at street level in Marylebone in the summer of 2018, and 20 samples on a 24-meter-high rooftop at Imperial’s South Kensington campus between 2014 and 2018. —Senior author Professor Dominik Weiss. —Dr Resongles. Eléonore Resongles, Volker Dietze, David C.

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Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Globally, the United States and Brazil lead the production of ethanol, while the EU leads biodiesel production. In 2014, steps such as the reintroduction of minimum support price (MSP) and opening up alternative ethanol production routes were taken, which helped the blending rate to reach 4% by 2018.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

We have Chile and Brazil, and even a few customers in Africa. But what I really wanted to do was to be part of this transformation, and I found a way to do this in 2018. And so, we started AMPECO at the end of 2018 and we went to market with our product in 2019. It’s really universally applicable because it is purely software.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

We have Chile and Brazil, and even a few customers in Africa. But what I really wanted to do was to be part of this transformation, and I found a way to do this in 2018. And so, we started AMPECO at the end of 2018 and we went to market with our product in 2019. It’s really universally applicable because it is purely software.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

And Chinese EV makers aren’t playing a silly game of limiting their own commitments in order to push a myth of falling sales (that said, Chinese dealer associations were granted a mere 6-month pause in regulations responding to a glut of unsellable gas cars – while also demanding that automakers stop building noncompliant vehicles immediately).

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