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Fast EV charging stations to be installed up and down motorways by 2025

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The EU Parliament has enacted a law that by 2025, EV fast charging stations will be installed across all significant transport corridors. This audacious, yet crucial strategy is designed to speed up the transition to electric vehicles, shrinking the EU’s carbon footprint in the process.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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New report released by UK House of Commons calls for advancing date for end of sale of conventional cars to before 2040

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Develop a properly resourced national air quality support scheme available to all local authorities struggling with air pollution. Require the automobile industry to contribute to a new clean air fund, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle, on a scale that adequately compensates for the health costs of diesel pollution.

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Potsdam/TUB/BMW report says cap-and-trade instrument for road transport fuels combined with vehicle efficiency metrics is the most promising policy approach to reduce transport GHG

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Second, car manufacturers can react to standards through technology and innovation, shifting their automobile portfolio, but also by pushing additional fuel efficient cars into the market (e.g. The upstream GHG emissions (from power generation) of electric cars are not strictly accounted for. by offering discounts).

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Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future

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Their gleaming galleries feature many historic and influential cars, almost all of them powered by petroleum-fueled internal combustion (IC) engines. Looking ahead, Stuttgart will likely continue to be the heart of the German auto industry, but how long will the IC engine remain the heart of the automobile?

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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The fact that German electricity prices are among the highest in Europe, despite relatively low wholesale prices, must serve as a warning signal ,” said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven as she presented the report, Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Germany 2013 Review. Electricity prices in comparison. Euro cents/kWh.

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Career Opportunities in the Electric Vehicle Industry

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We all are aware of the paradigm shift happening in the global automotive industry. The industry is trying to come up with more energy-intensive power sources. It is expected that by 2030, the nation’s automobile sector, which is currently the fifth-largest market, hopes to be the third-largest in the globe.