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Mercedes-Benz to begin equipping top models with CO2 air conditioning systems starting in 2017; adapting other models for R1234yf

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Mercedes-Benz has drafted corresponding standards together with all German automobile manufacturers and numerous suppliers in the automotive standards committee of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). Earlier post.). This means that all components including the hoses and seals need to be redesigned.

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW brand flagship will be available with four different drive technologies: with a highly efficient diesel or gasoline engine with 48-volt technology, as an electrified plug-in hybrid and, for the first time, as a fully-electric BEV model. Another milestone will be the upcoming generation of the BMW 7 Series.

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“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

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To be clear, said Sandra Novak, Audi Regulatory Engineer who now works on the e-fuels projects out of the Volkswagen Group of America office in Auburn Hills, MI, Audi itself is not in the partner companies’ labs; Audi is, however, “ pushing the companies in the right direction ”—i.e, —Reiner Mangold. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

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Even with CO2 levels well past the safe point of 350ppm and rising ever more dangerously , old school, baggy pants vaudevillian GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, known throughout the auto biz as “Rhymes with Nutz and Putz&# says, “We can meet the law, but it’s going to take a lot of money.&#. Don’t worry, pal, you soon will.

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