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UK to invest £200M in fleet of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks

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This could see hundreds more zero-emission HGVs rolled out across the nation and save the industry money, due to overall running costs of green vehicles being cheaper than gasoline and diesel equivalents. public sector organizations, including the NHS and local authorities, to support the uptake of battery electric trucks, enabling?learning?to

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Peugeot unveiling EXALT plug-in hybrid concept at Beijing show

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The 4-cylinder gasoline engine develops a specific power output of nearly 170 bhp (127 kW) per liter. This machine also intervenes to recharge the battery through recuperative braking. The system features a 1.6-liter liter THP 270 bhp (201 kW) engine developed by PEUGEOT Sport coupled to a 6-speed automatic gearbox.

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UK LowCVP says road transport CO2 reductions require both improved vehicle efficiency and lower carbon fuels; need for advanced liquid fuels

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However, there is currently no clarity of vision on future fuels policy, particularly biofuels, in the UK which is a barrier to the investment and deployment of advanced fuels, the organization noted. The response notes that there is no agreed specification for adding ethanol to gasoline beyond E10.

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RIKEN team develops high-performance lithium-iodine battery system with higher energy density than conventional Li-ion

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RIKEN is Japan’s largest research organization, with institutes and centers in locations throughout Japan. The reversible redox reaction without the formation of resistive solid products promotes rechargeability, demonstrating 100 cycles with negligible capacity fading. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0 500 km) [311 miles]. —Zhao et al.

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Old empires could be the key to a new car future – ET Auto

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The most promising path to exploiting hydrogen is to store the gas in a tank, as you would gasoline, then feed it into a fuel cell where it combines with oxygen to create an electric current, with water as a byproduct. An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. Tesla Inc.’s

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions.

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China team outlines 5 key areas of future research to realize Li-air batteries

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1 of gasoline, they note. The organic electrolyte in an aprotic Li–air system stabilizes the anode, conducts Li + ions, dissolves O 2 and provides a reaction interface. Lei-Lei Zhang, Zhong-Li Wang, Dan Xu, Xin-Bo Zhang, Li-Min Wang (2012) The development and challenges of rechargeable non-aqueous lithium–air batteries.

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