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Hyundai Motor Group affiliates to join Climate Group’s RE100, aim to expand renewable energy use

Green Car Congress

While all five companies aim to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050, each will make independent efforts to achieve targets ahead of schedule, by as early as 2040, depending on energy supply and demand conditions at their respective overseas operations. Hyundai Motor and Kia, along with Hyundai Mobis Co.,

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Why the Kia EV2 won’t be coming to Australia to fight the MG4, BYD Dolphin, GWM Ora and Tesla Model 2

EV Central

The Kia electric car countdown in Australia will not include the cheapest model it has yet previewed, the entry-level EV2. But the EV2, the electric car that could have put Kia in competition with the forthcoming Tesla Model 2 and the Aussie market’s Chinese price leaders – the BYD Dolphin, GWM Ora and MG4 – has been ruled out.

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Hyundai Motor to integrate green energy into Charge myHyundai service in Europe

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Using the e-mobility service provider Digital Charging Solutions’ (DCS) green charging option, the company will ensure that, for every charge undertaken by customers via its pan-European integrated public charging service, the equivalent amount of energy is fed back into the grid as green electricity.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

All of this helps explain why, though sanctions aimed at prominent Russian individuals are merely symbolic, those targeting major banks are serious—and why there has been only a single direct move against Russia’s energy sector: the cancellation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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