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Rimac Technology enters stationary energy storage systems market with launch of Rimac Energy

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Rimac Energy’s ESS is built upon a novel electrical architecture, which the company says enables significant performance, safety, and availability advantages, including up to 50% reduced energy losses and 40% smaller system footprint. All products are fully designed, developed, and produced in Europe.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

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Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018. Many factors affected the increase in CO 2 emissions from new vans in 2018, including an increase in the mass, engine capacity and size of the vehicles. In 2018, 1.66 compared with 2017. of sales in 2018.

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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

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Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. Strong results in Spain, Poland and the Netherlands were offset by falls in the UK, Italy and Sweden.

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Honda targets new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency with 8,500-mile diesel drive across Europe

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Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. i-DTEC engine provides 120 PS (118 hp, 88 kW) of power and 300 N·m (221 lb-ft) of torque, 62 mpg US (3.8

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Electric hypercar maker Rimac takes control of the Bugatti brand

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The automotive industry just welcomed one of its first electric hypercar juggernauts, with Rimac, a Croatian electric hypercar startup, taking control of Volkswagen’s esteemed Bugatti brand. Bugatti’s production would still be in France, though its research unit would be moving to Rimac’s Croatia headquarters.

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Production version of 1,914 hp electric Rimac Nevera to make US debut in Monterey

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The production version of the 1,914hp all-electric Rimac Nevera will make its US debut at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during Monterey Car Week on Friday, August 19. The Rimac Nevera’s 1,914hp is produced by four bespoke Rimac-engineered electric motors, which propels the hypercar from 0-60mph in just 1.85

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Pre-series-production eActros 300 Tractor drives 3,000 km from Germany to Turkey for testing

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The eActros 300 Tractor for distribution haulage has covered around 3,000 kilometers from the Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant to Aksaray in Turkey, where the road endurance and reliability testing of the electric truck will be taking place. Test engineers chose a route across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria for the trip.

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