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More than 500,000 Mercedes me Adapters activated

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Connecting the adapter with a smartphone means that connectivity services are no longer solely reserved to customers buying new cars. With Estonia, Lithuania and Cyprus, three more markets will be added this year. More than half a million vehicles worldwide have been equipped with the adapter to date.

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New cars sold in Europe in 2011 were 3.3% more fuel efficient than those sold in 2010; increasing diesel uptake

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A combination of changes in buying behavior, improved technology and engine efficiency was mostly responsible for this reduction, according to EEA analysis. This was mostly due to a sharp decline in uptake in France and Italy, countries where this fuel is most commonly used. The average CO 2 emissions for these cars was 135.7

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

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In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours. That jeopardizes the entire plant, which uses grid power to cool all six of its reactors and spent fuel pools.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Lithuania / 170 / 177 / 21. Great Britain / 158 / 165 / 16. Luxembourg / 160 / 166 / 18.

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