Green Cars News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
The Green Piece: Tuesday 6 October, 2009. The UK’s car scrappage scheme may have been dubbed a resounding success by the majority of car manufacturers and consumers alike, but it hasn’t won plaudits from all corners. per cent year-on-year in August after four consecutive months of scrappage-led improvements.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2009
There is no point forcing car makers to produce low carbon options if no-one will buy them, so it is right that ambitious regulation is combined with grants and other incentives—including taxes on gas guzzlers—to deliver a transformation of the car fleet. But there is a bigger picture.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 4, 2009
It seems a spark is needed to get us back to the showrooms – so are the leading manufacturers right to put their faith in green cars? Honda too has pinned its recovery hopes on green cars, pushing both hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technology. Averting a slump. Why the race is on.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 6, 2009
The hybrid car, dubbed the car of the stars because of its popularity among Hollywood celebrities, has attracted a huge order book with almost 10 per cent of its orders made through the UK’s scrappage scheme. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Toyota new Prius new Toyota Prius Toyota Prius.
Green Cars News
MAY 11, 2009
One of the UK’s leading providers of cosmetic surgery has replaced its fleet with Proton GEN-2 ecoLogic dual fuel vehicles, the only vehicles available in the UK with a factory-fit LPG tank. With 15 clinics in the UK, each of the 12 vehicles in its fleet cover on average 100,000 miles per year.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 4, 2009
So after the UK’s vehicle scrappage scheme was hailed a success, what of the so-called “cash for clunkers&# programme in the US? Even though corporate purchases of vehicle fleets continued to drop, the number of retail sales of Ford cars and pick-up trucks among the public leapt by nine per cent.
Green Cars News
MAY 26, 2009
The professional engineering institution recommends that the EU emissions targets need to be much tougher to be effective, calling for the average fleet emissions target of 95g/km by 2050 to be revised to a maximum of 30g/km by 2050 as the average fleet emission level for each car manufacturer.
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