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London and Paris launch car scoring initiative based on real-world emissions; ICCT the technical lead

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Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Cities Anne Hidalgo and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced they are working together to create schemes to score new cars based on their real-world emissions and their impact on air quality and to provide that data in an accurate and accessible form to the public. Earlier post.). Source: The ICCT.

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CPT presenting two papers at SAE World Congress on SpeedStart and TIGERS for 48V mild hybrid systems

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The exhaust gas can reach temperatures greater than 900 °C, whereas the turbine upper functional limit is 850 °C. Considering that TIGERS is expected to harvest energy from the exhaust gas it is essential that it not only lives in this harsh environment it must also produce work with no impact on vehicle performance or fuel efficiency.

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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

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So there is virgin carbon black from petrol; there is recovery of carbon black from pyrolysis; and now you have sustainable carbon black coming from the pyrolysis oil,” Roget summed. Even the lighter oil can be used to create resins used in the tires. million tons of tire-wear particles are emitted annually. As the U.K. As the U.K.

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STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

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The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume. In some senses hydrogen is the perfect fuel; it has three times more energy than petrol per unit of weight, and when it burns it produces nothing but water.

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HyBoost project could cut emissions by 40 per cent

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Known as the HyBoost project, this two-year research programme announced recently by the Technology Strategy Board, aims to demonstrate a cost-effective, ultra-efficient petrol engine in a C-segment passenger car. It hopes to produce a car that offers the performance of a 2.0litre model while keeping CO2 emissions below 100g/km.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Although such vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their petrol counterparts, there is a greener option that many governments seem to have overlooked: the electric bicycle. Like electric cars, electric bicycles are classified as zero-emission vehicles, meaning they emit no exhaust gases. The figure has doubled since 2005.