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Suzuki calls for scrappage scheme in Australia

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Having been boosted by scrappage scheme sales in Europe, Japanese manufacturer Suzuki wants to see a similar scheme implemented in Australia. The European standard of 130g/km of CO2 has been outlined as the standard bearer for green cars. The European standard of 130g/km of CO2 has been outlined as the standard bearer for green cars.

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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. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Country/Average CO2 2008(g/km)/AverageCO2 2007/Rank 2007. Car makers – Ranking by average CO2 in 2008.

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Maruti's anti EV & anti India policy : Keep selling pollution cars

Plug In India

According to the article from AutoCarIndia, Shashank Srivastava, executive director - marketing and sales, Maruti Suzuki, doesn’t see a case for introducing an EV yet. Mahindra Electric’s vehicles had completed 250 million km oil and emission fee transportation which saved 25,000 metric tons of CO2. As they are terrible.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

like i said in the first place, for me, this makes me think of one step in the right direction and makes me think of a greener cleaner future. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. excluding coal power in china. lol BUT everyone is entitled to their own opinion.