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Honda Reveals Saloon Electric Concept, Announces New EV Line

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Honda used CES 2024 to reveal a couple of purely conceptual automobiles and then announced that one of them would serve as the basis for its new EV line coming in 2026. But it remains a very cool concept, appealing to just above everyone who grew up thinking wedge designs and neon would be the future. “We

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China realizes charging piles, complete vehicles and accessories to go overseas

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China is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles. Judging from the customs data for the first eight months of this year, the contribution rate of my country’s new energy vehicle exports to the growth of automobile exports reached 26.7%, becoming a new bright spot in the foreign trade of the automobile industry.

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The EV Battery Wish List

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Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model S was still a glint in Elon Musk’s eye. A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand.

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Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

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The latter estimate appears to reflect, in part, the assumption that the entire refining sector processes nothing but high density, high sulfur crudes to the exclusion of all other crudes, domestic or imported. This framework includes electricity and natural gas used in the production of hydrogen. gigatons/year. Refinery LP models.

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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

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New propulsion systems requiring new fuels, such as plug-in electric vehicle systems and fuel cell systems, are beyond the scope of this technology roadmap and are treated in separate roadmaps. Compared with 2005 levels, the potential for improving the fuel economy of all vehicle types within the 2030 time frame ranges from 30% to 50%.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

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The NYU-BMW i study— Urban Mobility in the 21 st Century —predicts a future where growing cities will be inhabited by populations that, although less likely to own cars, will increasingly utilize a new generation of smaller, more efficient, sustainable and networked vehicles to get around. Demographics.

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Report: Stellantis Discusses Engine Plans

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With Stellantis vowing to launch a slew of all-electric and hybrid vehicles by 2030, many are wondering how this will impact the lineup in North America. We will have a low-displacement diesel and a big diesel that's coming in the future." The Hemi doesn't have all the attributes we needed. liter straight-six.

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