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BAE Systems Delivers First Series Hybrid Propulsion Systems to Alexander Dennis Ltd.

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They are the first of up to 300 series hybrid electric buses that will be supplied to operators across the UK with support from the Department of Transport’s £30 million (US$46 million) Green Bus Fund , which provides financial incentives to adopt green technologies.

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UW Madison, ExxonMobil researchers convert alcohols to diesel-range ethers and olefins

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The ethers can be used as cetane-improvers in diesel fuel, while the olefins can be hydrogenated and blended with gasoline or oligomerized and hydrogenated to jet-range paraffins. A paper on their work appears in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. Wittrig, E. Canales, M. Lanci and G. doi: 10.1039/C9GC01290G.

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Alternative fuels lose company car discounts

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The new regime will come into force April 6, 2011 and will see discounts on company car tax currently available for Euro 4-standard diesel cars registered before 1 January 2006, higher-emitting hybrid cars and alternative fuel company cars, such as those powered by bi-fuels, road fuel gas and bioethanol, being scrapped.