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Toyota a winner as CO2 reduction plan introduced to parliament with less pressure on SUVs and utes

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Australia is on schedule to have a CO2 reduction scheme for motor vehicle in place by January 1 2025. Hyundai calls for more EV support under Labor’s new CO2 reduction scheme READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Get out of the way diesel!

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EU approves law to ban new ICE vehicles by 2035

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The European Parliament on Tuesday passed legislation that will gradually eliminate cars with combustion engines, fundamentally transforming the auto industry in the bloc.

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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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In the recently concluded first phase of the fleet test, the cars were driven roughly 150,000 kilometers (93,000 miles). 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. —Ómar Sigurbjörnsson.

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With SUVs in vogue, fuel demand surges adding 20% to energy emissions growth

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Bloomberg) The love for ever-larger cars accounted for more than a quarter of the annual global demand growth for oil and 20% of the added energy-related CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. The preference for SUVs is also seen in electric car sales.

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Synetiq, Allye to turn salvaged EV batteries into energy storage – ET Auto

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” Lacking access to data to assess EV battery pack damage after accidents, insurers have been forced to write off low-mileage electric cars. . “We’re trying to change that.” That number will grow as EV sales rise.

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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

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2022 Mitsubishi eK X EV kei car for the Japan market Westcott was speaking as the auto industry waits for the federal government to reveal details of its new fuel standard intended to encourage the take-up of electric vehicles. Neither are as yet ruled in or out for Australia. “We

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Auto sales drop to new low in Norway

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Norway saw plugin electric vehicles take 76.3% share of the auto market in January, down from 90.5% The January auto market was highly anomalous due to the new year’s introduction of tighter auto emissions and tax increases, which had pulled sales forward into December. full electrics (BEVs), and 9.8% year on year.

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