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Volvo PHEV review, EV insurance cost, cable theft, Big Oil pushback: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Thieves are looking at fat charging cables as a fat paycheck (but they’re not). The oil industry is speaking up against EPA standards—and filing court cases. EVs still cost more to insure. And we plug in Volvo’s plug-in hybrid sedan and see why it’s pointing to EVs. In a review of.

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Shell to halt 80K bpd Carmon Creek oil sands project

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Royal Dutch Shell plc will not continue construction of the 80,000 barrel per day Carmon Creek thermal in situ oil sands project located in Alberta, Canada. This decision reflects current uncertainties, including the lack of infrastructure to move Canadian crude oil to global commodity markets. This is forcing tough choices at Shell.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

Artist sketch of “Hayduke” “You’re overrunning your headlights kid. “You’re the only one around here who’s been talking about this since I was in middle school. Little snot-nosed wiseass I thought, but then he said “We’re not stupid. “No we’re not.

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Green Deals: Stop buying oil + gas with a RYOBI 40V electric mower at $249, more

Electrek

If you’re tired of paying for gas and oil to mow the yard, remedy it by replacing your old mower with this brand-new electric model. It runs off of the included 40V 6Ah battery and can handle up to 1/2-acre on a single charge. Down $50 from its normal going rate, this marks one of the best prices that we’ve tracked.

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Hyundai introducing 48V mild hybrid system with 1.6L diesel in Europe

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The mild hybrid system has particular advantages in city traffic, with the MHSG supporting the combustion engine when re-starting after traffic stops. The conventional 12V starter is only used for the initial starting operation if the engine oil is still cold and a higher starting torque is required.

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Northern Lights Energy signs LOI to purchase 1,000 AMP electric SUV conversions over 5 years

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Iceland has no domestically-produced oil, according to the CIA World Factbook. It is the intention of NLE to purchase a variety of all-electric SUVs from AMP for utilization within fleet operations as well as for re-sale within the its market region.

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OPOC maker Achates Power now concept-ready; ready to develop multi-cylinder engines for competitive demonstrations

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Currently, Achates has demonstrated a single-cylinder CI OPOC two-stroke engine that matches the engine-out emissions of an advanced 2010 medium-duty diesel while achieving specific oil consumption of less than 0.1% We’re now at that phase where we have something to say. Fuel-specific oil consumption is below ).1%

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