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Europe moves forward with Real Driving Emissions testing procedure; more to do

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The RDE legislation will require engines to be clean under all operating conditions; this will impose significant challenges on the design and the calibration of engines. One-to-one comparison of test results will not be possible; instead it is necessary to handle and evaluate the test data using statistical methods.). Earlier post.).

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Dark Secrets at The Heart EV Supply chain We Often Fail to Address

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In a way what they suggest is true but over the lifetime of an EV, the pollution caused this way will be less in comparison with that of a gasoline car’s tailpipe emission. We should use that power to address the dirty secret at the heart of the clean mobility revolution. Addressing The issues.

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Cash for Clunkers Buoys US Auto Sales; Hybrid Sales Up 31.8% for Monthly New Vehicle Share of 3.55%

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All comparisons are by volume. Buoyed by the US government’s CARS (“Cash for Clunkers”) program, US auto sales slowed their decline in the US in July, dropping on 12.1% to 997,824 units, according to summary figures from AutoData. Passenger car sales dropped 10.6% to 554, 527 units, while light truck sales dropped 14.1% to 443, 297 units.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. By the mid-1980s, three quarters of the cars manufactured in Brazil were capable of running on sugarcane-based hydrous ethanol. Earlier GCC post.]

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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It is clean and flexible. This is particularly true in the electric power sector, where, in the US, natural gas sets the cost benchmark against which other clean power sources must compete to remove the marginal ton of CO 2. Support for methanol fueling infrastructure should also be considered.

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