Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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Study finds rapid health benefits following air pollution reduction

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Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and significant impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to new open-access research published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society. The study by the Environmental Committee of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) reviewed interventions that have reduced air pollution at its source.

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Software update for Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV adds real-world miles

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Jaguar boasted prior to the rollout of the I-Pace that the electric crossover would be capable of a wide range of over-the-air update functionality, with the potential, in the same way Tesla has used updates, to tweak power management, cooling behavior, and things like regenerative braking—to make the vehicle more efficient or, perhaps.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. The current system for voluntary carbon transactions is broken and needs to be fixed, group founders said. The group is co-led by attorney Jim Blackburn, a professor in the practice of environmental law at Rice, Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar and co-director of the university’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacua

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Connecticut aiming to revise EV incentive for low-income households

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The incentives that many states have provided to plug-in vehicle buyers have for the most part been a success; though they’ve also in many cases been a learning experience Connecticut is a good example, and the state is in the middle of a revamp of its program, called the Connecticut Hydrogen and Electric Automobile Purchase Rebate (CHEAPR).

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

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Streetlight charging company Ubitricity chooses EDF Energy to power its EV charging network

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Ubitricity, a company offering alternative, low-cost electric vehicle (EV) charge points that can be integrated into streetlight posts and bollards, chose EDF Energy to be the electricity provider for its UK charging network, ensuring that EV drivers have access to 100 per cent renewable backed electricity through all 1,800 ubitricity public charge points.

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Valvoline released a hybrid-specific motor oil: Do you need it?

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Electric cars give notice to one of the biggest profit drivers for the American auto-service sector: the oil change. Not so fast, though. Hybrids and plug-in hybrids have essentially the same oil-change needs as non-hybrids. And in the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 5 million hybrid vehicles on the road today, and hybrids are anticipated to.

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Mustang Mach-E origin, I-Pace gets more range, oil for hybrids: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

The Mustang Mach-E has a very interesting origin story. The Jaguar I-Pace gets more range, but not a higher EPA range rating. Connecticut tries to steer away from incentivizing Teslas. And do hybrids need special motor oil? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. We brought you a deep dive into how the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric SUV came.

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ECS, Toyota Research Institute release RFP for 2020-2021 fellowship award; focus on fuel cells and solid-state batteries

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ECS, in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America, a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., is seeking proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Proposals for the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for Projects in Green Energy Technology are due by 31 January 2020.

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Is Bollinger stealing Land Rover's thunder?

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The launch of the new Land Rover Defender set the automotive world ablaze. Replacing an icon was always going to be a thankless task. But aside from aesthetics, modern safety and emissions standards, and something that can't be quantified – soul, has Bollinger stolen Land Rover's thunder with its all-electric B1 and B2?

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HollyFrontier to build $350M renewable diesel unit at Artesia refinery; 125M gallons/year

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HollyFrontier Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer that produces high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other specialty products, plans to construct a new renewable diesel unit (RDU) at its Artesia, New Mexico refinery (Navajo Refinery). The RDU will have a production capacity of approximately 125 million gallons a year (9,000 BPD) and allow HollyFrontier to process soybean oil and other renewable feedstocks into renewable diesel.

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

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VW T-Roc Cabriolet: A niche too far?

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This week Volkswagen announced that production of its new T-Roc Cabriolet has got underway at its factory in Osnabruck

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Successful launch of VW sub-brand JETTA in China; ~30k vehicles in 3 months; ~80% SUVs

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Volkswagen has successfully launched its sub-brand JETTA in China with the new SUV VS5 and the VA3 sedan. Since market entry in September, nearly 30,000 vehicles were delivered to customers; almost 80% of JETTA deliveries were SUVs. This makes the JETTA launch the most successful recent brand introduction in China, taking into account the first three months of sales.

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Jaguar I-Pace to get range-boosting software update

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Jaguar has announced an early Christmas presents for drivers of its I-Pace: a free software updates which will improve battery performance and increase range by up to 12 miles.

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Election 2019: Coalition calls for certainty over Plug-In Grant support

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Over twenty automotive, environmental, EV charging and fleet organisations have joined forces with the British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association (BVRLA) to encourage continued support of the Plug-in Car and Van Grants.

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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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