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UK auto industry warns anti-diesel agenda and slow uptake of EVs could mean missing 2021 CO2 targets; rising CO2 average in 2017

Green Car Congress

The light commercial vehicle sector, 96% of which is powered by diesel, has also shown impressive progress—new vans last year reduced CO 2 by -4.8% These ongoing improvements mean average CO 2 is still a third (-33.1%) lower than in 2000. to a new low of 165.4 of the UK’s 2.5

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PNNL team develops higher-strength, lower-cost titanium alloy aimed at improving vehicle fuel economy and reducing CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

An improved titanium alloy—stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market—gets its strength from the novel way atoms are arranged to form a special nanostructure. b) Comparison of tensile strength and strain to failure (elongation) of Ti-185 alloy with other commercially available Titanium alloys.

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

Wallbox

To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. So how did this largely rural Scandinavian country become the global leader in EV adoption?

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BYD sold 68,018 battery-electric buses worldwide 

Electric Vehicles India

BYD & Levo collaborated for heavy-duty BYD commercial EVs. As part of the collaboration, BYD will implement Levo’s technology and capital to offer fully financed medium and heavy-duty BYD commercial EVs. BYD battery-electric buses. We can breath easier – these buses will prevent: 114,947,040 – tons of C02.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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Plans are moving forward to launch the process for commercial scale deep sea mining with or without regulation. I mean, for reference, the auto industry is roughly 100 million vehicles per year. We’re improving the affordability of EVs. And also for CO2 and sustainability, because Semis are driven all the time.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. We need an economy electric car that we an afford, not that nonsense. It is 12 years later. The management at GM are liars.

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