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Navistar First Launching eStar All-Electric Truck Sales in Portland, Oregon

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The eStar all-electric truck is the first medium-duty commercial vehicle to receive US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certification as a clean fuel fleet vehicle as well as California Air Resources Board (CARB) certification as a zero-emissions vehicle. and Modec Limited of the United Kingdom. Tags: Brief.

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Valence Technology, Wrightbus Sign Multi-Year Li-ion Battery Supply Agreement

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has signed a multi-year supply agreement with Wrightbus, the United Kingdom’s leading independent supplier of hybrid buses for public transportation systems. Valence expects this initial contract to generate between $19 million to $24 million in battery sales over the six-year term of the agreement, subject to market demand.

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Frost Sullivan Projects That About 80% of European Vehicle Sales Will Be in the 150 g/km CO2 Band by 2015; EVs as a Strategy of Premium Automakers

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A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015. g/km—in model year 2016. (As Earlier post.)

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UK Department For Transport Study on Light Goods Vehicle CO2 Concludes that Potential CO2 Reduction from Low-Carbon Technologies Within 5 Years is Quite Low, But Much Larger by 2020

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Measured variations in CO 2 emissions for different drive cycles. The UK Department for Transport has published the findings from the Light Goods Vehicle (LGV or van) CO 2 emissions study completed earlier. The study provides an estimate of sales-weighted new van CO 2 emissions of 207.6 Click to enlarge.

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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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This amount of zero-emission electricity is sufficient to power approximately 4.5 AMSC’s D-VAR and D-VAR RT solutions are now being employed at more than 70 wind farms in seven countries worldwide that are capable of producing more than 5,000 MW of combined zero-emission electricity. Global Wind Power Market.

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Toyota Formally Announces Introduction of Plug-in Prius Into Key Markets, Targeting Tens of Thousands in Public Sales in Two Years

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To promote the soonest widespread use of PHEVs, TMC will analyze feedback regarding the initial release of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid, with an aim to begin sales in the tens of thousands of units to the general public in two years. Emissions reduction level under 2005 standards. Prius Plug-In Performance Specs (Japan).

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

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The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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