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Honda to step up its game with new electric motorcycles and EVs

Teslarati

Honda appears ready to go full electric and dive into the increasing competition in the EV industry. At the same time, Honda plans to increase its annual sales of electric motorcycles to 3.5 Low-emission vehicles are also starting to influence other transportation models that use fossil fuels, like motorcycles.

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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Car Wars Han Feizi, writing in Asia Times , offers a colorful assessment of the current EV scene in China, which he compares to the notorious Japanese “motorcycle wars.” Three recent accounts stand out from the pack. Williams asks.

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EC rolls out CARS 2020 action plan for European auto industry

Green Car Congress

Antonio Tajani, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship, introduced the EC’s CARS 2020 Action Plan aimed at reinforcing the European automotive industry’s competitiveness and sustainability heading towards 2020. social impacts of restructuring. of around 16% of GDP to as much as 20% by 2020.

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Auto Industry Backs Additional Funding for Research into Impacts of Mid-Level Ethanol Blends

Green Car Congress

The auto industry in principle is not opposed to the introduction of such mid-level blends (i.e., The industry also has suggested that rather than make incremental changes to the amount of ethanol blended with gasoline to increase ethanol consumption, a better investment would be to expand the E85 infrastructure. Earlier post.)

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Small Cars Now Deliver Fuel Efficiency of Big Motorcycles: How'd That Happen?

Green Car Reports

It turns out that they now actually equal the fuel economy of larger motorcycles--which is pretty amazing for a four-seat vehicle weighing more than a ton. Especially since the motorcycles returning comparable gas-mileage figures weigh about one-fifth as much. DON'T MISS: Auto Industry Doing.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

The Indian electric vehicle industry too suffered a setback during the first six months of the year. Yet, by the end of the year, there is a huge wave of optimism in the industry for the coming year. This report logs the highs and lows of the Indian EV industry for 2020. The electric motorcycle scene has disappointed.

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Study: Collision Avoidance Technology Continues to Struggle

The Truth About Cars

New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is claiming that forward-collision warning and automatic emergency braking are less successful at identifying trucks and motorcycles. However, motorcycles only benefited 41 percent of the time and trucks 38 percent. The effect on fatalities could be substantial too.