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IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

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Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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A self-driving car is capable of driving itself sensing the environment with no help of a driver. Ability to analyze the environment and react according to the conditions is not an easy process. A self-driving car is supposed to analyze the environment and react based on the circumstances.

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OECD paper presents and analyzes policies and programs to foster market growth of green cars

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Green cars” can be defined as vehicles that use alternative fuels (other than petrol or diesel) and/or alternative types of propulsion (other than the conventional ICE). Alternative fuels include biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen and electricity from the grid. Timing and sequencing of energy technology policy.

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Researchers Propose New Method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Transportation Fuels as a Case Study

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To demonstrate the technique, Kristin Rogers and Thomas Seager applied it to a set of conventional and alternative transportation fuels (carefully noting that their purpose was purpose to illustrate the method, not to provide definitive conclusions about alternative fuels). total US emissions).

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UC report to CalEPA outlines policy options to decarbonize California transportation by 2045

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The UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy coordinated the report’s policy management, and the UC Davis Center for Regional Change led the study’s equity and environmental justice research. This scenario includes GHG emissions, vehicle sales, fuel consumption, carbon intensity, and changes in VMT.

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Study finds POMDME-diesel blends cut soot up to 34% with no NOx increase

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A paper on their work appears in the journal Fuel. In order to achieve a reduction in pollutants, several methodologies and measures have been adopted by legislators, academia and industry. Research laboratories and manufacturers are focusing, among others, on the use of fuel blends with a variety of physical and chemical properties.

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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

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The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. The development of EVs is very important to China: for haze, pollution and energy security.