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Green NCAP LCA study shows detrimental climate and energy impact of increasing vehicle weight, including EVs

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This drives not only a rise in fuel and electric energy consumption, but also creates a wider footprint in vehicle and battery production. Consumers and manufacturers share the burden for this trend given their steady interest in larger cars—in particular SUVs—as their vehicle of choice, commented Green NCAP.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020. EIA projections of renewables penetration. Source: EIA.

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

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In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand.

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Maruti Suzuki Delivers 10 SX4 Hybrids and 4 Eeco Charge Electric Concepts for Commonwealth Games

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Maruti Suzuki, India’s car market leader, recently provided 10 SX4 Hybrid and 4 Eeco Charge EV concepts for the use at the Commonwealth Games , running in Delhi 3-14 October. Both concepts are derived from production vehicles powered by gasoline- or CNG-fueled engines. SX4 Hybrid. This concept combines a 1.2 EECO Charge.

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

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The company will drive further expansion of renewable energy sources at its worldwide locations. Product strategy: fully-electric models in high-volume series. The company will have 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023—half of them fully electric.

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Volkswagen Group to invest more than €62 billion up to 2016; largest-yet investment package for new models, advanced technologies and production facilities

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More than half of this (57%) will be invested in Germany alone; investments in the German locations will focus on alternative drives, new generations of diesel and gasoline engines, and new generations of Volkswagen’s innovative direct shift gearboxes. Investments in property, plant and equipment will account for €49.8 billion (US$68.7

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

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We all believe that an electric vehicle is much more eco-friendlier than a conventional gasoline car. Now the question is to be asked, Are they that eco-friendly or that environmental promise is just a marketing strategy or are we overlooking important factors which good affect the environment in a really bad way?