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Report: Toyota to make hybrid car parts in China to boost sales

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The BBC reports that Toyota is planning to manufacture key components for its hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time. “Rare earths and concerns about their supplies could very well have played a role in this decision,” Vivek Vaidya of Frost & Sullivan told the BBC.

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Alberta publishes report assessing non-combustion uses for bitumen, opens $2M call for projects

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Alberta Innovates, in partnership with industry, government and other organizations, recently released the results of a study that investigates the best opportunities for “Bitumen Beyond Combustion” (BBC). Validating technical, logistical, environmental, and market solutions to accelerate the commercialization of BBC products.

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. The fuel supplies (green) are located at the inner inlet port. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars.

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Electric cars are cleaner than gasoline ones in 95% of the world, study finds

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Electric cars are in fact cleaner than gasoline cars in 95% of the world, according to a joint study by the Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, and Nijmegen (via BBC News). A new study confirms what electric car drivers already know: that EVs are cleaner than gasoline cars, even when emissions from electricity generation are factored in.

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ARB fines 12 ocean-going shippers $476,750 for violating low-sulfur fuel regulation

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Reederei KG (Germany) - $55,500 Vessel name: BBC Arizona. (Hong Kong) - $78,250 Vessel name: Maersk Wolfsburg. Firon Shipping Inc. Cyprus) c/o XT Shipping Group - $68,000 Vessel name: Blue Diamond. Bockstiegel GmbH & Co. MK Shipmanagement Co., Tokyo) - $53,000 Vessel name: Ocean Seagull. Cosco Maritime Ltd. (UK)

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Poll Shows Decline in UK Public Conviction About Climate Change

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Although some research among UK consumers has shown cynicism resulting from questions in popular culture and the mass media over the credibility of climate science and data, a recent poll for the BBC suggested that these events have had less influence on British public opinion than the cold winter. 3% said they did not know.

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Electric cars still cheaper to run, no matter what the BBC says

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It’s very hard not to imagine someone sitting at a desk in the BBC news department tapping a chewed ball point pen on their desk as they mutter, ‘there must be another way we can spin an anti-electric car story, there must!’ Well, they obviously had a good day, the latest is a doozie. Electric Ca[.]. Electric cars Editor Pick'

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