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Short(er)-range Tesla, Porsche Taycan wagon, U.S. cuts CO2: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Porsche will add a more utilitarian hatchback design to its upcoming Taycan electric-car lineup. All this and more on Green Car Reports. A new shorter-range Tesla Model 3 drops into the mix—but not the $35,000 model that many deposit-holders have been waiting for. And VW gives its vehicle lighting more of a message.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. 21 ] Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave - Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 2015. [ 24 ] Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B. braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [

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Peugeot 308 returns with CO2 emissions from just 82g/km

Green Cars News

With a focus on lightweight design, the new C-segment car will achieve impressive fuel economy as high as 91.1mpg with CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions as low as 82g/km. Peugeot’s new 308 will arrive in the UK from January, with order books already open. Using the brand’s new ‘Efficient Modular Pla[.].

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ICCT: Vehicle standards the key to reducing CO2 emissions

Green Cars News

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT, logo pictured) and the ClimateWorks Foundation have teamed up to produce a new analysis on how the US, China and the European Union can tackle their combined CO2 emissions – and have reached a striking conclusion.

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Alfa Romeo MiTo hits sub-100g/km CO2 target

Green Cars News

Alfa’s new revised MiTo model is the latest car to join the sub-100g/km CO2 club, making it one of a growing list of cars eligible for exemption from the London congestion charge. Designed to make [.].

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Volvo’s new App reveals the real green cars

Green Cars News

Swedish car brand Volvo has launched a new App designed to help car buyers see the true environmental impact of cars. While we’re perfectly accustomed to observing the tailpipe CO2 emissions of new cars, what many of us (and myself included!)

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New Hyundai i20 Blue emits just 98g/km CO2

Green Cars News

Having launched its first sub-100g/km CO2 car earlier this year, in the form of the i10 Blue, Hyundai now adds another road-tax dodging model in the form of the i20 Blue. The second model to use the Blue sub-brand name, designed to denote the car maker’s lowest emitting models, the new i20 Blue emits just [.].

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