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Volkswagen Golf family named “2015 Motor Trend Car of the Year”

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Each finalist is then driven on a real-world road loop that provides a range of surfaces and traffic conditions to evaluate ride and handling, engine and transmission smoothness and responsiveness, wind and road noise, and ergonomics. Efficiency—low fuel consumption and carbon footprint, relative to the vehicle''s competitive set.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

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Ford, Honda, and BMW have announced plans to create a new “vehicle-to-grid company” that’s aimed at standardizing vehicle charging via a singular platform. Electric grid reliability and sustainability are the foundation for an EV powered future,” said Thomas Ruemenapp, Vice President, Engineering, BMW of North America.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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Although the SAE World Congress has been running panel sessions on fuel cell vehicle commercialization since 2005, this year was the first in which three participating automakers—Toyota, Hyundai and Honda—had fuel cell vehicles that customers can buy now or within a year. Earlier post.) This is planned to increase in the future.

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BMW, Ford and Honda to create new company focused on optimizing EV grid services: ChargeScape

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BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., The company's efforts will reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints by utilizing electricity that comes from more readily available renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar.

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Hydrogen Council study: hydrogen could contribute to 20% of CO2 emissions reduction targets by 2050

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The world in the 21st century must transition to widespread low carbon energy use. Hydrogen is an indispensable resource to achieve this transition because it can be used to store and transport wind, solar and other renewable electricity to power transportation and many other things.

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Toyota details design of fuel cell system in Mirai; work on electrode catalysts

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The Toyota papers were part of the larger World Congress technical session on practical hydrogen fuel cell technology: PFL 720, Advances in Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications, chaired by Jesse Schneider of BMW. Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS). The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al.

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As An EV Maker, What Does It Take to Win the EV Race?

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This entails reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and minimising environmental impact throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. In their Gigafactories, they use renewable energy sources like solar and wind to power their manufacturing facilities which in turn reduces the carbon footprint associated with production.