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Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did

Baua Electric

The new emissions rules intend to change that, and to increase availability of EV options for the country. The US EPA has long had what is referred to as a “ footprint rule, ” which allows larger vehicles to pollute more. The other threat is possible future Chinese dominance in the auto industry.

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Top 5 Electric Vehicle Start-Ups in India

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Gadkari also stated that 100 % lithium-ion batteries, which are a critical component in electric vehicles, will be manufactured in India, while the government also conducts research on other readily available materials for batteries such as aluminium ion, sodium ion, steel ion, and zinc ion. Ather 450 [ Reference ].

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

Green Car Congress

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.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. A Q&A with Luca Guala on the Masdar PRT is available here. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) References. Gasoline/diesel fueling stations to replenish the liquid fuel for these engines are readily available. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2. Also see Appendix E and Reference 1.).

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The documentary showed, however, that the car companies never marketed the electric cars to a mass audience and didn’t make them available to everyone who wanted one. Consequently, gasoline-power vehicles pollute the most when the engine is first turned on in the morning after being off for many hours.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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