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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

The Truth About Cars

From The Guardian : In France, more than 100 drivers have launched a lawsuit claiming their details were obtained fraudulently, while Dutch lorry drivers are taking legal action against TfL over £6.5m Urban planners seem to have an axe to grind against the automobile these days and now without some reason.

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Ford targeting highly autonomous vehicle for ride-sharing in 2021; new tech company investments, staffing up in Silicon Valley

Green Car Congress

These levels are descriptive rather than normative and technical rather than legal. The next decade will be defined by automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago. They imply no particular order of market introduction.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

liter V-8 shrieking, as technically advanced as any automobile engine ever. That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. Yes, behind my helmeted head there’s a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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

Green Car Congress

The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. The demand-based control of this scroll compressor affords a highly efficient mode of operation. Audi is developing approaches for purely electric vehicles such as the R8 e-tron.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

That is making electric mobility affordable for more and more customers. At the special high-voltage competence center near Ingolstadt, the focus is on the development of complete systems: packaging, cooling, validation and, in partnership with body development, integration into the automobile. Second life. Fuel cell technology.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler. —Andrew Wheeler. Purchasing.