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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

Green Car Congress

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. Chairman of the Board of Management Oliver Zipse announced initial details of this strategic direction in Munich on Monday and presented the targets the company has set itself for the phase up to 2030. For a fleet of around 2.5 degree goal.

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Aston Martin to make petrol cars ‘for as long as allowed’

Baua Electric

Read more Aston Martin has decided to continue manufacturing petrol cars as long as it can after the carmaker delayed the arrival of its first ever electric vehicle. British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda will continue to produce traditional combustion-engine vehicles for as long as legally possible, its boss told UK media this week.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Think Tank’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key. How can you quickly improve the performance of the battery in an electric car? At the end of this article, Prof.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). Because EVs run on electricity, the vehicle emits no exhaust from a tailpipe and does not contain the typical liquid fuel components in ICEVs. Learn more about gas vs. electric car fires here. Here’s what we discovered. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

Clean Car

We know for sure that internal combustion engine-powered vehicles (ICE) and hybrids will be banned from sale no later than 2035 and we know that there is a big push towards encouraging the take up of electric vehicles (EV). The UK Government has legally committed us to achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. Recent sales numbers

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Compliance credits for EVs undergoing reduction 

Electric Auto Association

Electric vehicles (EVs) play an important role helping automakers keep in compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions standards. The multipliers for fuel cell vehicles and plug-in hybrids are also phasing out. Tesla Model 3 assembly line. In 2021, each will count as 1.5 effectively ending the bonus.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

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In electric mobility, Audi distinguishes between two groups of vehicles: fully hybrid vehicles, driving a maximum of about 3 km (1.86 miles) under electric power; and high-energy battery vehicles for longer distances. These are the plug-in hybrids, the range extender vehicles and the strictly electrical vehicles.

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