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

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This new strategic direction will be anchored in all divisions—from administration and purchasing to development and production, all the way to sales. The use of green hydrogen can also play an important part in energy generation at suitable BMW Group locations. We are taking sustainability to the next level. —Oliver Zipse.

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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. 40 CFR § 80.27

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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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Underneath the e-fuels banner, Audi also includes renewable electricity for recharging its e-tron vehicles (“e-power”) and, should the market so require it, “green” hydrogen (e-hydrogen, derived in the e-gas process). How much CO 2 and how much energy for getting cobalt out of the earth, for getting lithium, for producing hydrogen.

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