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Elio Motors to buy engines, abandons building its own

Green Car Reports

Elio Motors, which has been struggling since 2009 to build its own ultra-cheap, small, fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car, announced Thursday that it will source an engine from a major automaker. Previously, the company planned to build its own 3-cylinder engine with up to 55 horsepower for its projected 84-mpg three-wheeler.

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US tire manufacturers urge Congress to implement policies for more sustainable transportation and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

RMA is a mixture of ground tire rubber with asphalt that provides proven economic, environmental, and performance benefits in building better roads and highways. Research investments for tire derived aggregate (TDA) in stormwater infiltration galleries. Incentives for the use of low rolling resistance tires for public and private use.

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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

Green Car Congress

In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

They don’t care that its an end of line car with an older engine and a socket for a nokia 6310, its cheap and its better than what they are driving today. The pedants are methodical they start with a list of “must-have” attributes, such as it must have 7 seats, four-wheel drive and a towing capacity of 1600 kilos.

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Earth Policy Institute Joins

Plug In Partners

"S ustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system. It is time for Plan B , time to build a new economy and a new world." Business as usual - Plan A — cannot take us where we want to go. This could cut U.S.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

Drew Baglino noted that there’s no large-scale cathode refining facility in the US for now, so Tesla had to build one. 17:25 CST – Tom highlights that Tesla can build its factories extremely quickly. Just about $10 Trillion investment to build sustainable energy economy. More Cybertruck deets?

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. This trend is driven by major improvements in fuel economy in many countries, especially in the largest car markets in the United States, China, Europe and Japan. To compete today, the majority of alternative fuels need government support of one form or another.

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