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ICCT assesses impact of EV battery manufacturing life-cycle emissions debt; policy implications

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Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Among the general findings from the analysis: Electric cars are much cleaner than internal combustion engine cars over their lifetime.

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Henkel wins Surcar Global environmental footprint impact award for automotive paint pre-treatment process

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Henkel is the first winner of the Surcar International Award for Environmental Footprint with its Bonderite Thin Film 1800 Series zirconium oxide pre-treatment process for car bodies. We have reference customers on five continents. The Surcar Congress for the body finishing and painting industry was inaugurated in 1964 in France.

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Renault wins first lot of UGAP tender for electric vehicles; companies ordering more than 15,600 Renault Kangoo electric vans over 4-year period

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Renault has won the first lot of a call for bids for electric vehicles in France initiated by French public authorities and organized by the public procurement organization UGAP (l’Union des groupements d’achats publics). The first phase of the selection process was referred to as “competitive dialog”. A total of 15,637 Kangoo Z.E.

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Unused upheaval at Nissan as COO Ashwani Gupta leaves

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Peyman Kargar returned to Renault in France and used to be changed this pace through Jose Roman. Gupta, 52, used to be not hidden internally as occasionally butting heads with CEO Makoto Uchida, 56, over his ambition to prevail Uchida. Gupta’s leaving follows that of the worldwide head of the Infiniti top rate logo in March.

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EU investing >€3M in research into ultra-efficient aero engines; ULTIMATE project

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Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA 2050) outlines a 75% reduction in aviation CO 2 emissions to year 2050 relative to a year 2000 reference. Adding heat through internal combustion generates considerable entropy. Click to enlarge.

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J.D. Power study pegs India as 3rd largest vehicle market by 2020; small car focus

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India surpassed France, the United Kingdom and Italy to become the sixth-largest automotive market in the world in 2010, and it is expected to become one of the three largest automotive markets in the world by 2020, according to a special report titled “India Automotive 2020: The Next Giant from Asia,” released by J.D. Source: J.D.

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Ford poll finds Europeans want freedom of car ownership, but worry about traffic, cost of driving, environment

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Ford commissioned the survey, conducted by the consultancy The Futures Company, to better understand the opinions and attitudes of Europeans across a range of mobility issues—from car sharing to green driving to the future of the internal combustion engine. The survey was carried out between July and August 2012.