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Emissions Analytics: mass adoption of hybrids, rather than low-volume BEVs most effective for cutting CO2 now, meeting 2030 targets; best use of limited resource

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Due to CO 2 ’s long life in the atmosphere, a small change now is far better than a large change in the future. The EU’s post-2021 CO2 reduction target for passenger cars is 37.5% Given reservations about current BEVs, we require an alternative that will have a more immediate impact. —Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics.

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Volvo Car Corporation challenges EU’s goals and tactics on cutting CO2 emissions; CEO says electrified vehicles will struggle to pass 1% market share by 2020

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The figure suggests that the car market will continue to be dominated by traditional combustion-engine models for the foreseeable future. It is far too early to dismiss the conventional diesel and petrol power trains. In the last two years Volvo has brought CO 2 emissions from our diesel and petrol model ranges down by 13 percent.

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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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The primary area of research will be to understand and develop advanced combustion concepts compatible with future fuel advances by investigating new combustion geometries, valvetrain, fuel injection, air management and ignition technologies. Earlier post.). —Brian Cooper, Principal Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover Powertrain Research.

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Electric Pedicabs - future for London's transport

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All of them runs on diesel engines making even more pollution than the ordinary petrol engines. This blog is not about promoting the pedicabs or pedicab industry but about making people's awareness of light weight electric vehicles and their contribution these could make to reduce CO2 emissions.

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JATO: new car average CO2 emissions highest in Europe since 2014; slow EV uptake insufficient to counter fewer diesels and more SUVs

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g/km, almost half that produced by diesel and petrol vehicles. If these vehicles want to keep gaining traction and avoid future sanctions, they need to be electrified. Despite an increase of EV models contributing positively to emission levels, the move away from diesel had a negative impact, one that the market could not offset.

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Ford doubles German production capacity of 1.0L EcoBoost to 1,000 units per day

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Ford of Europe has previously announced plans to triple annual production of vehicles equipped with fuel-efficient EcoBoost petrol engines to approximately 480,000 by 2015, from 141,000 in 2011. liter EcoBoost that will be the first non-hybrid gasoline-powered family car in Europe to offer 99 g/km CO2 emissions. Earlier post.)

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BMW: “We don’t cheat”; diesel is needed to hit CO2 targets; call for WLTP and RDE

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Meeting future requirements will not be feasible without diesel drive trains, since a diesel engine emits roughly 15 to 20% less CO 2 on average than a comparable petrol engine. The progress achieved so far in CO 2 reduction in Europe is largely due to the use of diesel technology.

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