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EVR Motors signs fourth commercial agreement in India and establishes Indian manufacturing facility

Green Car Congress

Israel-based EVR Motors has signed an agreement with RSB Group, one of India’s Tier-1 automotive suppliers. Both the RSB Group and EKA Mobility agreements see EVR developing electric motors for Light Commercial Vehicles using its Trapezoidal Stator RFPM (TS-RFPM) topology.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom. —COP 26 Declaration. Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. If you want to know all the details, check out the Federal Code of Regulations.

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India To Develop EV Eco System Through State-Owned Oil Marketing Companies

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Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) have promised to create 22,000 charging stations by the end of 2026, as a result, the EV infrastructure in the company will be able to cater for the demand. The goal is to integrate the setup into street lights for curbside charging.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Many leading markets and car manufacturers have committed to effectively phasing out fossil fuel powered light vehicles. Do you support the target to reduce VKT by cars and light vehicles by 20 per cent by 2035 through providing better travel options, particularly in our largest cities, and associated actions? . Transport .

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bikes had their own express lanes, their own concrete lane barriers, their own street lights, their own place on subways, their own bus racks, their own hipster club parking spaces, their own prams, even their own kind of road-rage. And hundreds of mayors and corporate leaders committed their futures to meaningful action. Vegas anyone?

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Tata Takes On Air

Plug In Partners

clip Unfortunately, the streets of North America may never see the Air Car, though; it's light-weight, glued-together fiberglass construction might not do so well in our crash tests. Nègre has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa. It just doesn't have an electric motor.