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Volkswagen targets reducing environmental impact of its plants by 25% by 2018

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Initiative, the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand has set targets to reduce for the environmental impact of all Volkswagen plants by 25% values by 2018. The program, which is concerned with efficiency improvements in production and the expansion of environmentally aware energy supplies, addresses all employees at the plants.

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50 by 20: Wireless EV Charging Hits Key Benchmark

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee recently announced that they have set a record for wireless EV charging. As IEEE Spectrum reported in 2018 , WiTricity , headquartered in Watertown, Mass., Their system’s magnetic coils have reached a 100-kilowatt power level.

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Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

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The Van Hool factory in Macedonia is building 900 buses this year; the factory is designed for an annual capacity of 1,000 buses. The Van Hool plant in Morristown (Tennessee, USA) is expected to start building buses from 2022. In 2018, Yutong built 60,868 buses, including 24,748 new energy buses.

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Cooperation between Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance deepening in 2016

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Nissan and Daimler broke ground on the US$1-billion Aguascalientes, Mexico, plant in 2015, which will produce next-generation premium compact vehicles for Infiniti as of 2017 and for Mercedes-Benz starting in 2018. Later this month, Mercedes-Benz will provide further insights into the new pickup truck’s design, strategy and markets.

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USDA, FAA and other partners extend partnership agreement on aviations biofuels for five more years

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The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018. Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems (IBSS) led by the University of Tennessee is using switchgrass and woody biomass to produce butanol and aviation fuel.

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Blazer EV price cut, Dodge electric muscle, Rivian R2 and R3: The Week in Reverse

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Rivian on Thursday provided the most significant future-product preview since the debut of its R1 series trucks at the 2018 LA auto show. But in a look at these Rivian models’ shared design and manufacturing elements, if the company can get past its headwinds it has a lot of innovation yet to come.

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Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

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The Volkswagen Group has set itself the goal of becoming the world’s leading automaker in environmental terms by 2018. The main focus is to include increasingly efficient production as well as increasing energy supplies to all plants. 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated with production-related energy supplies by 2020.

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