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Volkswagen aims for cleaner plants by 2018

Green Cars News

Car giant, Volkswagen has set itself an ambitious target of making its plants more sustainable by cutting their environmental impact by 25 per cent by 2018.

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UK’s first biomethane bus launched

Green Cars News

Taking the bus instead of a car on your daily commute offers a boost to the environment, as more people on buses means fewer cars on the road and less emissions. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news. This is despite many buses being gas guzzlers and notoriously dirty.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. Electric vehicles (EV) or (BEV) are a clean, quiet alternative to conventional automobiles, which are powered by petroleum derivatives that, when burned, emit noxious gases into the environment.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop. The electrical system has perhaps 85% excess capacity most of the year which means we are wasting money in excess electric generation and distribution infrastructure and resources.

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