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Sales of chargeable vehicles more than triple in EU in Q3 to take 9.9% new market share

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During the third quarter, cars powered by conventional internal combustion engines lost further ground, with their overall market share going down from 88.6% With the exception of Cyprus, all EU markets saw declines in demand for gasoline cars during the three-month period, including the four major markets. to 766,146 units.

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New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

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The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. The bottom overall countries in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (21) Italy (22) United Kingdom (23) Hungary (24) Romania (25) Ireland (26) Poland (27) Lithuania (28) Greece (29) Malta (30) Cyprus.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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—Co-author Professor Jos Lelieveld, of the Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the Cyprus Institute Nicosia. We think this may be explained by more advanced health care in western Europe, where life expectancy is generally higher.

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€10bn a year: the cost of keeping EU biofuel policy alive

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Biofuels cost cash-strapped EU member states €10bn in 2011-the same as the bailout of Cyprus-and a figure that is projected to get bigger as Europe increases its use of the fuel. Biofuels biofuel Transport & Environment'

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EEA report suggests road charges for heavy-duty goods vehicles should reflect varied health effects of pollution in different countries

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Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. At the other end of the scale, the same truck driving in Cyprus, Malta and Finland causes damage of around €0.005 (US$0.01) per kilometer. In some regions the cost is also much higher than others.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Technical Achievements

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GREEN Metrology Research Centre Ottawa, Canada “For low-uncertainty measurement of Planck’s constant of fundamental importance to the redefinition of the International System of Units (SI).” WOOD CARLOS SANCHEZ , retired RICHARD G. IEEE MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society JANET L. IEEE ERIC E.

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Fiat wins Technobest award for green TwinAir engine

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Fiat has won the prestigious international Technobest prize for the second year running for its innovation TwinAir system after winning last year for its MultiAir technology.

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