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JATO: new car average CO2 emissions highest in Europe since 2014; slow EV uptake insufficient to counter fewer diesels and more SUVs

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In addition to the European car market recording tepid growth in 2019, CO 2 emissions have continued to increase, despite new regulation designed to curtail this, according to JATO Dynamics. g/km), C3 Aircross (-4.7), C1 (-4.5). According to data from JATO Dynamics, the average for the 23 European markets totalled 121.8

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Toyota Prius named WhatGreenCar of the Year

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The 10 cars up for contention for the 2009 Award included: the Citroen C1 ev’ie electric, Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric, Toyota iQ, Ford Fiesta ECOnetic, third-generation Toyota Prius hybrid, Volvo S40/V50 DRIVe start-stop, new Honda Insight hybrid, VW Passat BlueMotion 2, BMW 318d saloon, and the Citroen C3 Picasso compact-MPV.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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Thus, this carbon utilization process is designed to operate with zero carbon dioxide release. The University of Minnesota will design a cell-free biocatalytic system that will reduce CO 2 efficiently into formate, a C 1 feedstock, with energy supplied from electricity. INvizyne Technologies, Inc. ZymoChem, Inc. second award).

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