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Audi and Krajete developing direct air capture technologies for CO2

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AUDI AG and the Austria-based green tech company Krajete GmbH are jointly developing new technologies for filtering emissions from ambient air. The filtered air is released back into the environment after the adsorption step. They make far-reaching energy and cost reductions possible. This increases efficiency and reduces costs.

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Another study shows plug-in hybrids are dirtier than we thought

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Plug-in hybrids pollute up to three times more than advertised, even when fully charged, and emit five to seven times as much CO2 when the engine is running, according to a new study commissioned by Belgian NGO Transport & Environment and conducted by the University of Technology in Graz, Austria.

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EEA: no improvements on average CO2 emissions from new cars registered in 2017 in Europe

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Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). While past years have seen steady declines, new passenger cars registered in 2017 emitted on average 0.4

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Enough Public Charging for Higher EU Truck CO2 Targets, Analysis Finds

CleanTechnica EVs

New analysis of Europe's plans for public charging finds there will be enough infrastructure for higher EU electric truck targets in 2030.

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Volta Zero electric truck production starts

Drive Electric

This will involve Volta Trucks engineers replicating a wide range of customer usage and delivery cycles, as well as taking the Volta Zero to the extremes of cold weather environments in the Arctic, hot weathers in equatorial conditions, and crash testing, all to validate the safety, durability and reliability of the vehicle.

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Toyota develops tropospheric ozone-concentration simulator for South and East Asia

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The project was carried out in collaboration with Tsinghua University in China, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Investigation of strategies to reduce atmospheric pollution in major cities has already begun in China.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Considered to be among the harshest and most extreme environments on the planet with low water and nutrient levels paired with high salt and ultraviolet radiation levels, the team seeks to understand how the carbon cycle plays out in this ecosystem. University of Vienna, Austria. Dangl, Jeff. Gross, Stephen. Hazen, Samuel. Ohm, Robin.