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ICCT study finds noise and climate impacts of a new generation of supersonic aircraft could be significant

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Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). This equals about one-fifth of a proportional carbon budget afforded international aviation under a 1.5

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Trinity, TOTAL researchers design new molecules that boost fuel efficiency

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The research was funded by TOTAL Marketing Services and supported by MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine. Current market research indicates that internal combustion engine sales peaked in 2018 and that from now on sales of electric cars will slowly overtake cars running on fossil fuels.

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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

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BEV sales in the UK have grown rapidly over the past year – with demand rising, at least in part due to petrol shortages, which dried up many motorists’ gas tanks in September. Johnson signed a bill at the end of 2020 that would ban the sale of cars that run entirely on internal combustion engines from 2030.