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Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

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Among drivers testing the vehicles were CRI staff and members of the Icelandic Automobile Association as well as several local service providers in the auto industry. Unlike methane gas and hydrogen, there is no need to install expensive infrastructure in order to store and distribute methanol as a fuel.

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India’s Top EV Stocks To Get Make The Best Out of The EV Revolution As An Investor

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As we all know, the auto industry will not be the only one to profit from this megatrend. Opportunities exist in a variety of industries. 2-wheelers dominate the Indian automobile market, accounting for 75% of all cars sold in the country.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The AC Propulsion experiment thus became an obscure footnote in the tortuous saga of the green automobile. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Enova Delivers Hybrid Drive Systems to First Auto Works for Hybrid Buses

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Because the electric motor is placed directly between the engine and transmission, the system typically requires modification to the engine installation and thus is suited to OEM applications, as opposed to retrofits. These hybrid power buses are part of China’s initiative to produce 500,000 electric and hybrid power vehicles.

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Study: Collision Avoidance Technology Continues to Struggle

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But they’ve become increasingly commonplace among regulators, with corporate lobbying groups often in perfect sync with government policies. Federal regulators constantly harp on Tesla’s Autopilot and somehow manage to ignore nearly identical systems installed by other manufacturers. Pedestrian detection was particularly disappointing.

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down the world as we know it and the automotive industry is no exception. As a result of the lockdown, automobile production ground to a halt in several leading car manufacturing countries. billion to install 200,000 EV chargers until the end of the year, 20,000 of which will be public chargers.

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