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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

While familiar with the concept, I was not ready to traverse the graphs and tables required to determine how much you’re on the hook for depending upon what type of vehicle you’ve chosen. One would expect to receive some kind of purchasing allowance calculated that’s then tied to income. Normal to my American eyes thus far.

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Westport acquires Clean Energy’s BAF natural gas vehicle business for $25M

Green Car Congress

The new co-marketing program is aimed at increasing the natural gas vehicle market, and will allow Westport to provide purchase incentives for fleets, including fuel credits, and includes a commitment from Clean Energy to purchase Westport products.

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Charged Up: The 2024 Dodge Charger is Finally Here

The Truth About Cars

The extra horsepower on the R/T and Scat Pack models come from stage kits that will be standard at launch but will later need to be purchased separately. Oh, and of course, the Daytona gets a fake-exhaust system that will make it sound like an old-school V8 muscle car. We've seen this car in concept form for quite some time.

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What we don’t admit about carbon dioxide

Electric Auto Association

The decision to purchase an electric vehicle (EV) over an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle involves several factors. Unfortunately, our intuitive concepts about CO2 conflict with our scientific appraisal of its harmfulness. Our clever mufflers quiet the explosions and direct the copious exhaust out the rear.

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Study for European Parliament assesses options for turning CO2 into methanol for use in transport

Green Car Congress

The first critical issue is since both hydrogen and methanol produced from CO 2 are still far from being price-competitive, they are unlikely to gain market shares in the next decades unless there is a drastic increase in prices for gasoline and conventional diesel. —Methanol report. —Methanol report. Regulatory approach.

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

Green Car Congress

Although the EPA has not as of this writing released the final fuel economy numbers for the US A3 e-tron, Filip Brabec, Director, Product Management, Audi of America, said that the figures will be around 83 to 86 MPGe combined (depending on the equipment level), with 35 to 39 mpg gasoline only and 16-17 miles of EV range.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines. Second, a Congressional Budget Office study issued in April said even with subsidies ethanol is only profitable when a gallon of gasoline costs 70% or more than a bushel of corn, i.e, Animal operations.