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Europe’s Euro 7 emission limits face pushback from 8 international locations

Baua Electric

8 Ecu Union countries together with France and Italy referred to as for the bloc to scrap deliberate Euro 7 exhaust emission limits, announcing they’re overly determined and unrealistic for automakers to strike. France’s President Emmanuel Macron, has additionally mentioned that there must be a rest in EU situation legislation.

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

Green Car Congress

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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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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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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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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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

Last month, the main markets were France (5,978 units) and Germany (5,349), with Italy (1,153 units) a distant 3rd. With the upcoming Ioniq 5 (not so) compact crossover said to be a small revolution in the EV World, one wonders if the Kona EV won't suffer from the new internal competition. Is this peak Kona EV?

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. The EV footprint (Fluence Z.E.) Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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