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EC rolls out CARS 2020 action plan for European auto industry

Green Car Congress

Priorities will include motorcycles, safety of new vehicle technologies (EVs) and technologies supporting driver behavior and enforcement of road rules (intelligent speed management devices, seat belt reminders, ITS, ecodriving). The task force has been active (on ad-hoc basis) and highly efficient in past cases in the automotive industry.

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Small Cars Now Deliver Fuel Efficiency of Big Motorcycles: How'd That Happen?

Green Car Reports

It turns out that they now actually equal the fuel economy of larger motorcycles--which is pretty amazing for a four-seat vehicle weighing more than a ton. Especially since the motorcycles returning comparable gas-mileage figures weigh about one-fifth as much. DON'T MISS: Auto Industry Doing.

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DOE announces $1.7 billion in grants to convert facilities for EV production and support US auto workers – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Some folks fear that the transition to EVs will lead to major job losses in the auto industry—and not without reason, as EVs require different (and fewer) components than legacy ICE vehicles. Harley-Davidson will get $89 million to expand its York, Pennsylvania plant for electric motorcycle manufacturing.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010.

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