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New Study Shows Fleet Purchases of More Efficient, Lower-Carbon Vehicles Can Spur Major Decreases in Emissions and Fuel Consumption

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In the report, The Economic and Environmental Impacts of a Corporate Fleet Vehicle Purchase Program, the group examines the economic and environmental contributions of converting corporate fleets from gasoline to compressed natural gas (CNG) and hybrid vehicles. Tags: Fleets Fuel Efficiency Hybrids. million vehicles.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

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That effectively precludes any vehicles that are not intended for the global market, with winners resulting from the opinions of a limited number of industry experts. Most of the relevant studies are several years old, frequently rope in the European market, and typically list high-volume models that are purchased by just as many men (e.g.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

That effectively precludes any vehicles that are not intended for the global market, with winners resulting from the opinions of a limited number of industry experts. Most of the relevant studies are several years old, frequently rope in the European market, and typically list high-volume models that are purchased by just as many men (e.g.

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This Volvo and Harris Poll Study investigates the state of EVs in America

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Further amplifying Volvo’s commitment to electrification, this report sought to provide new insights on the evolution of electric vehicles (EVs), the current barriers to purchasing, and the future of the EV economy. Would increase likelihood to purchase EV. Driven largely in China, the U.S., Base: Non-EV drivers.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. But Kyoto also allows companies to purchase “offsets”: credits from emissions-reducing projects in developing countries.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

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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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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

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Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. Deployment of infrastructure, including charging stations and incentives for zero-emissions vehicle purchases, are being studied. Tags: Brief. Nissan Motor Co.,

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