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Dash Cams Are a Must for Your Fleet

Clean Fleet Report

They capture what happens on the road, providing invaluable insights that can help fleet managers make informed decisions, promote safer driving habits and, ultimately, protect their business’s bottom line. Just as every tool has its purpose, dash cams serve multiple functions—a vigilant eye, an unbiased witness and a teacher of sorts.

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Volkswagen launching E-Golf BEV test fleet in the US; partnering with Solazyme and Amyris on renewable diesel fuels

Green Car Congress

By studying E-Golf use across multiple geographical regions, Volkswagen will monitor the effect of climate conditions, driving patterns, and energy performance; the data and insights gained during the scheme will be used in the final development of future EV technology applications.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S.

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand. They account for 40% of the expected increase in oil demand to 2050 and 15% of the increase in global CO 2 emissions. Trucks will even surpass passenger cars as the major oil consumers. Access to private data for public entities is thus important.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. The result is known as blue crude, which—similar to crude oil—can be refined to create the end product Audi e-diesel. The 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC are decisive test environments.

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California environmental lawyer forecasts the future of state and federal emissions regulations

Charged EVs

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. You better have some steel. That’s huge.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in 2007, the Supreme Court basically said that greenhouse gases are pollutants, and if they endanger public health and the environment, [the EPA can] regulate them. California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act. They have done it for 50 years.

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