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T&E study: EVs can be cheaper for Uber drivers to run than latest diesels in many European capitals

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Medium-sized battery-electric cars are on average 14% cheaper to run than equivalent diesels today, if slow charging overnight near home and/or fast charging at preferential rates are available. By then more than 200 different EV models will be available in the showrooms. The savings can be higher (24%) in the case of Parisian drivers.

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Volkswagen Group opts for LNG-fueled car carriers

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The possibility of changing other vehicle transport vessels chartered by Volkswagen over to LNG operation will depend on the availability of the necessary infrastructure. Since the end of 2015, material from Turkey for the Autoeuropa plant in Portugal has been shipped from Izmir to Lisbon by sea.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Portugal / 138 / 144 / 1.

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ITF report finds self-driving shared vehicles could take up to 90% of cars off city streets; total kilometers travelled increases

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ITF researchers used actual transport data from Lisbon, Portugal, to modal the impact of two concepts: “TaxiBots”, self-driving vehicles shared simultaneously by several passengers (ride sharing) and “AutoVots”, which pick-up and drop-off single passengers sequentially (car sharing). New vehicle types and business models will be required.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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UOP also has licensed plants in Italy and Portugal to use the EcoFining technology. Under the current set of prices and slate of feedstocks available, you can produce Green Diesel fuels from renewable fats and greases at a price competitive with petroleum diesel—provided you get feedstock at the price needed. Earlier post.)

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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

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There are 16 available NECO Series models (as of June 23): Tiida, Tiida Latio, Cube, Note, Wingroad, Serena, X-TRAIL, Lafesta, AD/AD Expert, March, Presage, Pino, Otti, Atlas H43, NV200 Vanette and Moco. in the United States; and Israel, Portugal, Monaco, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

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I rode cleaner shtyle with the driver and reached the hotel at 1940 hrs. Marriyam, from Goa, Portugal was the Christian one and Rukaiya Begum, the Muslim one was from Turkey. Unfortunately no rice was available, but I enjoyed the dal-roti. I promised a 100 Rs. Our pharma friends helped me load the cycles and then left.

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