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electric smart ready for production

Green Cars News

Reaction from customers taking part in the UK trial, including the Metropolitan Police, universities, local councils, architects and energy companies, has proved so encouraging that smart’s parent company, Daimler AG, has confirmed that the smart electric drive will go into small series production, with cars coming to the UK in early 2010. .

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Revolve attracts attention from MP

Green Cars News

Revolve Technologies has a number of developments in progress including a Hydrogen/Petrol Bi-Fuel ICE conversion on a Ford Transit van, as well as a hybrid-electric system for buses. “However, the electric car is not the single universal panacea.

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Defence researchers hope to make most of CO2

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Researchers at the laboratory have teamed up with colleagues from the Centre for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky to investigate the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) using a Fisher-Tropsch cobalt catalyst. This of course, would have tremendous environmental benefits in reducing the impact of CO2 on climate change.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. losing sales to fuel-efficient cars from Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day.

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