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Plug In America joins global alliance

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Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. We hope to see other countries join us! This is just the beginning for GEVA! For more information, visit globalevalliance.com.

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Hydrogenics to supply 1MW electrolyzer to project converting CO2 to methanol; Power-to-Gas

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The MefCO2 consortium consists of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe; the Laboratory of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering of the National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia; the Cardiff Catalysis Institute; Carbon Recycling International; the University of Genoa; the University of Duisburg Essen; i-Deals; and Hydrogenics.

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Nissan to produce Mercedes-Benz 4-cylinder gasoline engines in North America; latest step in collaboration

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powertrain assembly plant will build Mercedes-Benz 4-cylinder gasoline engines for Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz models. Two-seater smart vehicles will be produced at Daimler’s plant in Hambach, France, and four-seater smart and Renault production are slated for Renault’s plant in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. Powertrain cross-supply.

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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

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kWh/100 km) in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. The work on the building has already been completed. Work on the building has already been completed; the systems will be installed in the coming months. The smart EQ fortwo (combined power consumption: 16.5 kWh/100 km) and smart EQ fortwo Cabrio (combined power consumption: 16.8

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Daimler/Renault-Nissan collaboration expanding

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Just one and a half years after the groundbreaking in May 2012, the factory building for the joint production of Mercedes-Benz four-cylinder gasoline engines is now complete. Production machinery is now being installed and the start of production is planned for mid-2014.

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EEA reports finds Europe to exceed NOx emission ceiling, mostly due to road transport

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Some Member States, such as the Netherlands and Slovenia, expect to exceed their respective NO x ceilings by only small margins (less than 5%). The European Commission has recently launched a comprehensive review of its air policy, building on the 2005 Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution (TSAP) and Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) initiatives.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Slovenia / 156 / 156 / 11. VW Passat). EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Malta / 147 / 148 / 3. Belgium / 148 / 153 / 5. Spain / 148 / 153 / 6.

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