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Land Rovers Keep Catching Fire, But EVs Get Blamed For Luton Carpark Fire

CleanTechnica EVs

Land Rovers and Range Rovers occupy the same place that massive pickup trucks do in North American car culture. They are vastly outsized, overpowered, heavy machines which pretend to be working vehicles, but are remarkably often driven in cities to pick up lattes.

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Expedition to spread word of climate change

Green Cars News

A team of three Cambridge graduates has today received a Land Rover Defender 110 and a cheque for £10,000, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, to embark on an expedition of approximately 32,000km, through 31 countries, to raise awareness of the potential impacts of climate change along the Atlantic coastline.

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SAE CRP1234-4 analysis of R-1234yf nears completion; finding refrigerant safe and effective in automotive applications

Green Car Congress

The team includes European, North American and Asian OEMs including Chrysler/Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, PSA, Renault and Toyota. Climate Change Emissions Safety Vehicle Systems' The SAE CRP has carefully evaluated the extensive testing conducted by its members.

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Auto Alliance urges EPA to withdraw premature Final Determination on light-duty GHG regulations, resume Midterm Evaluation process with NHTSA

Green Car Congress

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA. Background.

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European automakers and fuel suppliers argue for diesel as they call on policy makers to accelerate fleet renewal

Green Car Congress

Diesel cars, having significantly lower CO 2 emissions per kilometer, are essential to manufacturers’ efforts to reach the EU’s 2021 CO 2 fleet average targets and thereby help reduce road transport CO 2 emissions and mitigate climate change. Such measures make no sense from an environmental point of view. —from the joint letter.

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[PRESS RELEASE] DRIVE ELECTRIC RESPONSE TO CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT CHANGES.

Drive Electric

The Climate Change Commission has recently confirmed that incentives are necessary to continue to ensure the adoption of EVs. While we’ve made some great progress increasing new EV sales, at the end of 2022, there were still only 65,000 registered EVs.

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Over 200,000 Pure Electric Vehicles to hit UK roads in 2021

Drive Electric

Jaguar Land Rover may have challenges due to having no lower price EV models to sell; £70,000+ sales are hard to come by in tough economic times. There is growing environmental awareness, about climate change and also about challenges with local air quality; EVs help to provide a solution in both areas.