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Kia EV6 achieves product carbon footprint certification from the Carbon Trust

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Kia EV6 ( earlier post )has achieved product carbon footprint certification and ‘ Carbon Measured ’ label from the global climate change and sustainability consultancy the Carbon Trust, becoming the first Korean vehicle manufacturer to achieve the certificate.

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Hyundai Motor and Kia to introduce blockchain-based carbon emission monitoring system

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Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation introduced the AI-enabled, blockchain-based Supplier CO 2 Emission Monitoring System (SCEMS) to manage the carbon emissions of its cooperative business partners.

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Kia Niro EV concept, Tesla Model 3 deliveries, climate-change To Do list, Korea picks CCS: Today's Car News

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Today, we've got news on vehicles to be shown at next week's CES, Tesla's Q4 sales results—including the Model 3—a map to address climate change, and more than 16,000 all-electric city buses. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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UCS analysis finds Hyundai-Kia with best sales-weighted new vehicle environmental performance in US in 2013

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In its sixth sales-weighted analysis of emissions from 8 major automakers’ 2013 model year vehicles, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) latest Automaker Rankings report found that Hyundai-Kia unseated Honda as the “Greenest Automaker.” Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency'

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Hyundai Motor Group, Aramco and KAUST collaborate on new e-fuel for novel combustion system

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Building more efficient and less polluting transport systems is a critical contribution to the circular carbon economy approach to tackling climate change. The tests will be conducted by researchers in the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) at KAUST. —Professor Donal Bradley, Vice President for Research at KAUST.

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Amazon charges Kias, Chevy Bolt mountain range, UN climate report: Today's Car News

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A new UN climate report calls for optimism in tackling climate change. A second automaker has signed on to Amazon's Home Services charger installation program. We took a Chevrolet Bolt EV to the top of the Continental Divide to see how its range fares in mountain driving.

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Tesla tops New Zealand EV cars sales in August

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Mitsubishi followed Toyota closely behind at 12% share, and Kia came in third with 11% market share. New Zealand rolled out a Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount program to address the transportation sector’s CO2 emission levels and combat climate change. Toyota was in the lead with an 18% market share.