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Seattle boosted by green car grant

Green Cars News

Alternative fuel technologies have been embraced in Seattle, after the city was awarded a $1.4million grant from the US Department of Energy to enhance its fleet of green vehicles. It will also pick up $500,000 for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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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. [ 27 ] Watson, Grant and Andrew A. | Greentech Media 12 May 2015. [ MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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Appeal for funding for beneficial CO2 use

Green Cars News

Carbon dioxide (CO2) may be the emission that most car manufacturers are desperately trying to drive down, but even it has its uses and now one company is hoping for funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to target its beneficial use. They may include plant efficiency projects.

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EPA grants California emissions waiver

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The US state of California has been granted a waiver request enabling it to enforce its own greenhouse gas emissions standard for new cars starting with the current model year. The end point of the two standards in 2016 is roughly the same - the MY2016 new vehicle fleet is approximately 243g/CO2 per mile, around 36.6mpg.

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Ford Focus Electric goes on UK sale from £33,500

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The 100%-electric Ford Focus is now available to buy in the UK from £33,500 (or £28,500 with the Government’s full £5k Plug-In Car grant). Aside from representing the blue oval’s first ever fully electric car, the Focus Electric is the 10th Ford model to appear in UK showrooms with sub-100g/km CO2 [.].

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Plans revealed for algae based bio-refinery

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Algenol submitted a formal request for a grant from the US Department of Energy last week with the intention of building a refinery that would be based at Dow’s Freeport site in Texas. The CO2 is supplied to the algae in the photo-bioreactors and serves as a carbon source for the ethanol produced.

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Switching to electric cars ‘could increase emissions’

Green Cars News

The idea that a wholesale switch to electric cars would automatically reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil is one of a number of myths dispelled by a major new report conducted on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA). CO2 emissions. measures: • Stringent CO2 standards for cars. Popularity.