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Honda Reveals Saloon Electric Concept, Announces New EV Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda used CES 2024 to reveal a couple of purely conceptual automobiles and then announced that one of them would serve as the basis for its new EV line coming in 2026. But it remains a very cool concept, appealing to just above everyone who grew up thinking wedge designs and neon would be the future. “We

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Honeywell Global Turbo Forecast projects 49M turbocharged vehicle sales, $12B revenue per year by 2019

Green Car Congress

Continued pressure to improve the driver experience and meet future industry requirements is spurring the positive trend seen in this year’s forecast, which include double-digit growth in both North America and China. In addition to improving fuel efficiency, downsized turbocharged engines also reduce harmful exhaust emissions.

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Study finds plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to modest increases in refinery CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

It does not include energy used in the production and transport of biofuels; energy used in the production and supply of purchased blendstocks; electricity used in non-process or off-site activities (such as oil movements, product blending, lighting, etc.), MM Bbl/day (51%) were light and medium crudes and 2.5 The additional 2.4

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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

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The transport sector currently accounts for a fifth of global final energy consumption, and increased demand from this sector is expected to make up all future growth in oil use worldwide. The report treats different motorized modes separately, with a focus on light-duty vehicles (LDVs), heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) and powered two-wheelers.

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Cellulosic nanocrystals from biomass waste for thermoplastics for automotive applications

Green Car Congress

They are light, but very strong—30% lighter and 3-to-4 times stronger. We believe that a lot of car parts, including dashboards, bumpers, side panels, will be made of nano-sized fruit fibers in the future. Another is curaua, a plant related to pineapple that is cultivated in South America. —Alcides Leão, Ph.D.,

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

While the past couple of years have been full of news about future plug-in electric vehicles arriving in 2010, BMW plans to leap frog ahead of all automakers on the electrification front by releasing 500 all electric plug-in MINIs at the end of 2008. Amazing AC Propulsion eBoxes at AltCarExpo Saturday, September 27th, 2008. www.bmwusa.com.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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