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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. The general assumption seems to be that Americans will simply ditch their gasoline-powered vehicles in favor of EVs. Meanwhile, the electrification of city- and corporate-owned vehicles has been dominating recent headlines. News and World Report recently posed the question: will the U.S.

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Toyota commissions Yamaha to develop hydrogen-fueled 5.0L V8; follow-on from Nov 2021 announcement

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Toyota Motor Corporation has commissioned Yamaha Motor to develop a 5.0-liter Teaming up with companies with different corporate cultures and areas of expertise as well as growing the number of partners we have is how we want to lead the way into the future. Hydrogen: not a stand-in for gasoline. Earlier post.).

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GasBuddy launches its own payments network for gasoline savings program

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GasBuddy, the company behind a smartphone app providing crowdsourced information to help drivers find the best gasoline prices, has introduced Pay with GasBuddy, a new payment service that provides US drivers with a discount off of gasoline purchases. Using Pay with GasBuddy, these US consumers could collectively save $7.2

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) unveils MI-TECH CONCEPT small SUV PHEV

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) unveiled the MI-TECH CONCEPT electrified small SUV concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. The power generator in the new PHEV drivetrain is a lightweight, compact gas turbine engine-generator in place of the traditional gasoline engine.

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Toyota developing hydrogen combustion engine technologies through motorsports

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Toyota Motor Corporation is developing a hydrogen combustion engine in an effort to move toward a carbon-neutral mobility society. It has installed the engine—a 1.6L Except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil during driving, which is also the case with gasoline engines, hydrogen engines emit zero CO 2 when in use.

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Sundrop Fuels finalizes ExxonMobil MTG technology license for “green gasoline” production facility

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a gasification-based drop-in advanced biofuels company, finalized a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s methanol-to-gasoline ( MTG ) technology to be incorporated into a “green gasoline” production facility. MTG reactor product is separated into gas, raw gasoline and water. Earlier post.).

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VSE Corporation delivers prototype repowered, fuel-efficient engine to US Postal Service for testing

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VSE Corporation and its subsidiary Wheeler Bros. WBI) recently delivered their prototype, fuel efficient, repowered gasoline Long Life Vehicle (LLV) for testing by the USPS. The USPS solicitation asked that contractors propose fuel efficient gasoline or diesel engine to be used in the USPS truck fleet. Earlier post.)