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100 New Charging Locations in Finland, Phillips 66 & EV Charging, AI, Satellites — EV News Today

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Phillips 66 is getting into EV charging with FreeWire, 100 new charging locations are being added in Finland, more zero-emission heavy vehicles are coming to off-road industries, Audi is reducing annual carbon emissions by around 2,600 tons in the company’s switch to rail transport of batteries, and more battery news.

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European consortium launches 4-year, $80M L3Pilot research project to test Level 3, 4 autonomous driving in 11 countries

Green Car Congress

The strong integration of the entire European automobile industry and the scientific support by experts in the areas of mobility and automated vehicles will drive this initiative forward and make it successful. —Aria Etemad from Volkswagen Group Research, project coordinator L3Pilot. Authorities: The Netherlands Vehicle Authority RDW.

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JATO: electrified vehicles 13% of new car reg in Europe in January 2020; electrified vehicles only growth-driver

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Only two years ago not many in the industry would have predicted such high levels of demand for EVs. They made up 77% of total car registrations in Norway, 38% in Sweden and 28% in Finland. We believe that the market is capable of adapting to meet new regulations and impending challenges.

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

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Audi is 5th place with 2 countries. Both in the UK and Ireland, Audi and BMW are joint first place (18.1k Porsche dominates the luxury car finance industry in the neighbouring eastern European countries of Hungary, Ukraine and Romania. Mercedes-Benz is most popular in Russia, Czechia and Slovakia. Methodology.

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Volkswagen AG coordinating new €6M EU research project on drop-in biocatalytic solar fuels

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This basic concept is in line with the fundamental approach (CO 2 + water + renewable energy → drop-in fuels) being taken by Audi (a member of the Volkswagen Group) in its e-fuels initiatives. Neste Oil Corporation, Finland. Earlier post.). Imperial College Of Science Technology and Medicine, UK. A4F Algafuel SA, Portugal.

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Helsinki to host electric display of green cars

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In addition to the eCorolla, the conversion block contains electrically-powered VW Golf, eYaris and Audi A8 cars as well as the Secma Fun Buggy electric kei car. Tags: Green credentials Electric Motor Show event Finland helsinki. Also on display will be various electric car conversions in different stages of completion.