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AUGUST 23, 2019

The Volkswagen brand is systematically driving its electric offensive and will be installing some 4,000 charging points at its German sites by 2025. The Volkswagen Group is investing some €250 million in expanding the charging infrastructure at its European sites. When combined with the activities at dealerships, this means the Volkswagen Group is providing some 36,000 new charging points in Europe.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2019

For 2020, Chevrolet boosted the range of the Bolt EV to 259 miles—from 238 miles in 2019 and earlier models. According to the company, small tweaks in the chemistry of its battery cells accommodated the new range, though it says the capacity remains the same at 60 kilowatt-hours. When the Bolt first hit the market in 2017, it was the first.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report finds that, after decades of incremental progress in several key categories, US highway conditions are deteriorating, especially in a group of problem-plagued states struggling to repair deficient bridges, maintain Interstate pavement and reduce urban traffic congestion. In looking at the nation’s highway system as a whole, there was a decades-long trend of incremental improvement in most key categories, but the overall condition of the highway system ha

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2019

Finding a fast charger in the U.S. just got a lot easier for a lot of electric-car drivers. Two of America's largest fast-charging networks announced an agreement Thursday to allow each other's users to charge at their charging sites without signing up for new memberships or payment plans. Electrify America and EVgo agreed to a roaming partnership.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Exposure to ambient PM 2.5 is the leading global environmental risk factor for mortality and disease burden, with associated annual global welfare costs of trillions of dollars, However, no one knows what city has the highest level of the pollution. In an open-access paper recently published in Atmospheric Environment: X , an international team of researchers outline the extent of the gap between what researchers know and don’t know about on-the-ground levels of fine particulate matter.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2019

Look out, Tesla. Some versions of the upcoming Porsche Taycan electric car are going vegan, too—perhaps before Tesla can get there. Well, for now let’s call it vegan-ish. In a first release of information about the production Taycan interior. Porsche yesterday said that it will offer both an option of tanned Club Leather, using a.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2019

A German court has found that updated software applied to VW diesels still doesn't bring emissions to acceptable levels in all circumstances. The Dusseldorf district court found that the update applied to the plaintiff's turbodiesel Tiguan still only allows the emissions control equipment to function properly between 50 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Mercedes A- and B-Class get 'EQ' PHEV powertrains

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2019

GM has eked out more range for the 2020 Chevy Bolt EV. Porsche goes vegan for at least one interior choice in its new Taycan electric car. Volkswagen faces more trouble over diesels in a German court. And an agreement between Electrify America and EVgo makes charging access easier. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Porsche revealed much of.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Volvo extends S60 range with T8 PHEV

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AUGUST 23, 2019

This week saw police in Devon tackle a plastic crocodile, and we discovered the upcoming Bond film will be titled No Time to Die.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process. World’s first integrated Power-to-Liquid (PtL) test facility to synthesize fuels from the air-captured carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Robert Allan Ltd. and MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH have developed the first LNG-fueled shallow-draft pushboat design: the RApide 2800-G pushboat. This challenging project is a preliminary design which utilized the proven shallow draft RApide 2800-Z2 pushboat that currently operates on the Amazon River system. The vessel design was modified to suit a complete LNG (liquified natural gas) propulsion system with two 746 kW MTU 8V4000M55R-N Tier III gas safe main engines.

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