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Actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks: 1966-2017

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by Michael Sivak. This is the latest of my occasional updates on retrospective, long-term trends in U.S. vehicle fuel economy. Specifically, this study examines actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks (pickup trucks, SUVs, and vans) from 1966 through 2017. Calculated vehicle fuel economy is available going back to 1923. However, the starting year of this analysis is 1966 because (1) for 1923 through 1935, fuel-economy information is available only for the entire fleet of all vehicles, and (

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Tesla rolls out V10 software, makes Q3 sales push

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Would smooth Spotify audio or Netflix video integration sell you on a new electric car? Tesla started pushing out its much-anticipated Software Version 10, or V10, to owners last week, just as it intensified the push to sell what might, by some estimations, be a quarterly record for the company in the third quarter of 2019. Promotional e-mails.

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Robert Bosch Venture Capital invests in Chinese autonomous trucking start-up Trunk

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Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, has invested in Trunk, a startup based in Beijing. Trunk provides combined hardware and software solutions for autonomous trucking. Trunk is the first company to go into production with autonomous trucking solutions for the container logistics market, currently valued at some US$19 billion.

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UL expands into electric-car ecosystem, could speed up rollout of V2G

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Electricians and home insurers have long recommended—or required, in some cases—that home appliances and electrical devices be UL certified and carry that familiar circular seal. Until relatively recently, some electric car chargers didn't carry it, and there were popular electric-vehicle chargers that carried no UL seal. Automakers.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Hyundai Motor Group appoints NASA research exec to lead new Urban Air Mobility division

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Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has appointed Dr. Jaiwon Shin as Executive Vice President and Head of its newly established Urban Air Mobility Division. An internationally renowned aeronautics engineer, Dr. Shin will lead the company into a new era of developing smart mobility products within the aviation industry. Having worked on cutting-edge aviation research and development at NASA for 30 years, I am very excited and humbled by the opportunity to now shape urban air mobility strategy at Hyundai Mo

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Tesla software, Maserati EVs, impeachment and electric cars: Today’s Car News

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Tesla pushes a big software upgrade just as it’s in another sales push. “UL Listed” could become a lot more common for EV drivers. Maserati electrifies. And we look at what impeachment might bring to the electric-vehicle market. A little calm, maybe? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. We argue that impeaching and removing.

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Maserati outlines upcoming EVs and hybrids, underscores Italian production

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Maserati announced a major electrification push Thursday, laying out a road map that will start with a hybrid electric Ghibli in 2020. The Ghibli sedan will be the first in a new range of electrified Maseratis, including an all-electric sports car (which will be the company's first dedicated EV), an electric crossover/SUV, and then battery-powered.

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Report finds one-third fewer polluting vehicles entered central London during ULEZ’ first four months

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An analysis of the early impacts of London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) found that in the first four months of its operation (March – July 2019) there was a reduction of 12,524 older, more polluting, non-compliant vehicles detected in the zone—a reduction of more than one-third. There was a 30% decrease in the proportion of vehicles in the central zone that were non-compliant from March 2019 to July 2019.

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Alpine will adopt hybrid power in future cars

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Alpine's reincarnation has been a rare success story in the annuls of brand resuscitations. Since Renault breathed new life into it and launched the A110 in 2017, it received almost universal praise from motoring writers and pundits globally.

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BIT researchers use high energy density material in electrode to enhance Li-S battery performance

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To develop higher capacity batteries, researchers have looked to lithium-sulfur batteries because of sulfur’s high theoretical capacity and energy density. There are still several problems to solve before lithium-sulfur batteries can be put into widespread practical application—such as sulfur’s intrinsically low electrical conductivity and the rapid capacity decay caused by polysulfides escaping from the cathode.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Review: Toyota Aygo

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To the uninitiated, it might be something of a surprise to find that the Toyota Aygo shares most of its mechanical bits with the Citroen C1 and Peugeot 108.

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Subaru to expand use of Toyota Hybrid System to other models following new business and capital alliance

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As part of a new business an capital alliance between Toyota Motor Corporation and Subaru Corporation, Subaru will expand the use of the the Toyota Hybrid System in other Subaru models, following on the Crosstrek Hybrid ( earlier post , which is available only in North America.). Subaru and Toyota first agreed on a business collaboration in 2005. ( Earlier post.

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Commentary: Impeaching and removing Trump will save electric cars

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There’s a small footnote in the chapters of history being written on Capitol Hill this week: One of President Donald Trump’s signature reforms—to subvert California’s right to set its own emissions standards—now seems like scribbles in the margin on the pages of his administration's legacy. For the electric-car.

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PNNL, OSU team develops a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst for efficient conversion of wastewater & seawater into hydrogen

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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Details of the team’s study appear in the journal ACS Catalysis. The findings stem from a three-year project funded by the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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