Plug In India
MARCH 15, 2023
The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. A typical petrol-powered ICE car emits about 4.6 So an ICE car running on petrol over a period of 8 years, a petrol car will emit 40.56
Green Cars News
JULY 3, 2009
Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, without a sensible Federal policy in place that affects the price of petrol in the long term, few customers may pay attention. Will green cars ever be popular there?
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
There is a continual drive within the auto industry for low carbon vehicle technologies. SR technology not only eliminates the need for permanent magnets made from increasingly difficult to obtain rare earth materials, but also is uniquely well suited for electrical boosting and energy recovery in downsized petrol and diesel engines.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 18, 2009
An analysis by the Worlds Resources Institute has found that the scheme will save less than two days’ worth of carbon emissions between now and 2019 with replacement vehicles only having to achieve a four mpg improvement compared to the clunker it replaces.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
I certainly believe that in future there will be a much more complex mix of powertrains and fuels; hydrogen will never be as dominant as petrol, and fuel cells never as dominant as combustion engines. I believe that all three barriers are very real for the auto industry but they are not true in any absolute sense. 40Fires.org.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Below is an interview with Director Chris Paine and Journalist Robert Steadman with UK-based Blue and Green Tomorrow : ROB: Was it difficult to gain behind the scenes access to the auto industry after the first film? We knew we were vulnerable to car industry PR efforts and they knew they couldn't control what we did editorially.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Greenpeace , agrees, and argues that sales of all diesel and petrol vehicles, including hybrids must end by 2030. California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) Chair Liane Randolph told Reuters that its 2035 EV mandate was the “sweet spot,” given “where the automakers are, where the supply chains are, and where the production vehicles are.”
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