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Jaguar Land Rover investing $1.6M in two new Centers of Excellence for Engine Combustion Research at Oxford and University College London; gasoline and diesel

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Jaguar Land Rover announced the creation of two new Centers of Excellence for Engine Combustion Research at two leading UK universities. million) investment will be shared equally between University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford to support the development of new research facilities and fund two 5-year study programs.

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Universities of Birmingham and Warwick launch new fuels lab

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The UK Universities of Birmingham and Warwick launched a new lab to support investigations into the dynamic aspects of combustion of alternative fuels, as well as gasoline and diesel, with the aim of reducing harmful vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly greenhouse gasses.

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Researchers successfully engineer E. coli to produce renewable propane; proof-of-concept

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli bacteria. an aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) to form the final product, propane.

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Australian Cam-Drive Gasoline Engine Reaches 39.5% Efficiency in Independent Testing; Potential for Production Engine in China

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Australia-based Revetec is designing what it calls the Controlled Combustion Engine (CCE)—a cam-drive gasoline spark-ignited internal combustion engine that is smaller, lighter, cleaner, less expensive to manufacture and that produces higher torque due to higher mechanical transfer than equivalent conventional engines.

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Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

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Methanol is a petrol and not suitable as a diesel fuel component, but can be dehydrated to form dimethyl ether (DME) with a high cetane number. DME is safe, burns cleaner than conventional diesel, and most importantly is versatile. The comparative figure for diesel is 113 g/km CO 2.).

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Researchers aim to optimise natural gas engines

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Compressed natural gas (CNG) has long been seen as a cleaner alternative to petrol and diesel but questions remained about how to get the most out of this fuel. Now, researchers from the Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering at the University of Stuttgart and FKFS believe they have found a solution.

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Congestion charge and electric vehicles: Everything you need to know

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Everyone pays the charge, although there are some exceptions to an otherwise universal charge. There’s also a cleaner vehicle discount of 100% which applies only to battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from 25 October 2021. This continues in October when low-emission petrol and diesel must start to pay.