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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. The most common way of powering an offshore oil rig is with a diesel generator.

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Mahindra XUV300 hits 250,000 sales ahead of XUV3XO reveal | Autocar Professional

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Launched on Valentine’s Day in 2019, the popular compact SUV has, till end-March 2024, sold a total of 248,263 units. From February 2019 through to end-March 2024, Mahindra & Mahindra has sold a total of 1.42 Within three months of launch – May 14, 2019 – the company had received 26,000 bookings.

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Volvo Cars to eliminate diesel engines from the new S60 sedan

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The new Volvo S60 sedan to be launched later this spring will be the first Volvo to be produced without a diesel engine option. All new Volvo models launched from 2019 will be available as either a mild gasoline hybrid, plug-in gasoline hybrid or battery electric vehicle. The new S60 represents the next step in that commitment.

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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

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In addition to the European car market recording tepid growth in 2019, CO 2 emissions have continued to increase, despite new regulation designed to curtail this, according to JATO Dynamics. As expected, the combination of fewer diesel registrations and more SUVs continued to have an impact on emissions. g/km for Italy.

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Volkswagen to offer 48V mild hybrid version of eighth-generation Golf in 2019

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The basic interaction of different energy sources—electricity, petrol, diesel and natural gas—represents a paradigm shift at Volkswagen. This new product strategy will come into play for the first time from 2019 onwards with the launch of the next generation of the Golf and the first I.D.—two

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T&E study: EVs can be cheaper for Uber drivers to run than latest diesels in many European capitals

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Medium-sized battery-electric cars are on average 14% cheaper to run than equivalent diesels today, if slow charging overnight near home and/or fast charging at preferential rates are available. T&E’s lifecycle CO 2 emission calculator estimates that today EVs cut CO 2 emissions by two-thirds on average across Europe compared to diesel cars.

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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). million users in London in 2019 and with 2.7 French government data from 2017 show that 90% of the registered private hire vehicles, which includes Uber, were diesel cars.

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